An Atomic Cocktail
The atom bomb brought with it both fear and a new kind of fun. Going to Vegas to have a blast could be taken literally in the 1950s. Until 1962 tests were done above ground, 65 miles away, close enough to view from the roof of a downtown bar. The effects of fallout were known, but it was thought sufficient to test on days when the wind blew it away from where people lived. Anything that fell from the cloud could be washed off in the shower. In 1990, Congress admitted that what came from those clouds caused harm; as of 2015, the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has paid out $2 billion to people who were near the explosions.
In 1956, Elvis Presley, booked in Vegas as the "Atomic Powered Singer," bombed with the older audience.
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