Nevada
Las Vegas: The boom year
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David Whitley discovers how the advent of nuclear testing in the Nevada desert coincided with the beginning of Sin City as a tourism hotspot.

For all the things that are incredible and absurd about Las Vegas, Sin City’s most remarkable achievement is how quickly it has grown. Today, the population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area is around 1.9 million. In 1960 – just 51 years ago – the population was 64,405.

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