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Atomic tourism is a relatively new style of tourism in which the tourists travel to significant sites in atomic history. These sites are typically those involved with either atomic explosions or the vehicles (planes, missiles and rockets) that transport them.

Atomic museums

• Tinian Airfield: launch site for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II
• Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona: public underground missile museum
• Nike Missile Site SF-88L, near San Francisco, California, fully restored Nike missile complex
• Los Alamos Historical Museum, Los Alamos, New Mexico, items from the Manhattan Project
• Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, New Mexico, history of the Manhattan Project
• National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, many missiles and rockets. This used to be the National Atomic Museum at Kirtland AFB and it has a B52 on exhibit.
• National Museum of the United States Air Force, The Nagasaki B-29 bomber (Bockscar) as well as many nuclear missiles
• Nevada Desert Experience, Las Vegas, Nevada, anti-nuclear resistance to Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site
• Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor, first to make Plutonium
• American Museum of Science and Energy: bomb casings on display
• Greenbrier Bunker: underground bunker for Congress
• Savannah River Site: site where Plutonium 239 and Tritium were made
• Experimental Breeder Reactor I, at Arco, Idaho: The first nuclear reactor to produce electrical power, the first breeder reactor, and the first to use plutonium as fuel
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC: Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
• White Sands Missile Range, Central New Mexico: missiles on display
• Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Cape Canaveral, Florida: missiles on display
• Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida: bomb casings and missiles on display
• Pacific Proving Grounds, South Pacific, site of many atomic and nuclear tests from 1948-1963
• Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Hanford Site, Location of the B Reactor which contributed to the Trinity (nuclear test) and the Fat Man bomb
• George Herbert Jones Laboratory, which was where plutonium was first isolated and characterized
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park at the Island tip in central Hiroshima, Japan, which contains the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, and other related memorials
• Nagasaki Peace Park next to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in the Northern suburbs of Nagasaki, Japan,

Explosion sites

• Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico, site of 1st atomic bomb explosion July 16, 1945
• Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, Land of a Thousand Nuclear Tests
• Bikini Atoll, South Pacific, many atomic sites now available by SCUBA
• Project GASBUGGY, Carson National Forest, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, Atoms for Peace
• Project GNOME, Carlsbad, New Mexico, underground atomic test site
• Hiroshima, Japan, first wartime use of an atomic bomb
• Nagasaki, Japan, last wartime use of an atomic bomb
• Maralinga, Australia, site used for Operation Buffalo and Operation Antler in the 1950s.
• Pokhran, the city in Rajasthan where in 1998 India conducted the Pokhran-II test explosions

Atomic accidents

• Chernobyl disaster The "Chernobyl disaster", or reactor accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only instance so far of level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, resulting in a severe nuclear meltdown.

• Three Mile Island was the site of a well publicized accident, the most significant in the history of American commercial nuclear power.

• Windscale fire On October 10, 1957, the graphite core of a British nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, caught fire, releasing substantial amounts of radioactive contamination into the surrounding area. The event, known as the Windscale fire, was considered the world's worst reactor accident until the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Both incidents were dwarfed by the magnitude of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

External links

• "The Bureau of Atomic Tourism"
• My Radioactive Vacation by Phil Stuart
• Hanford site tours