Atomic City may refer to:
Places
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Atomic City, Idaho
Atomic City is an unincorporated area in Bingham County, Idaho, United States. The population was 41 at the 2020 census, up from 29 in 2010. , a city in Bingham County, Idaho
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson County, Tennessee, Anderson and Roane County, Tennessee, Roane counties in the East Tennessee, eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville. Oak Ridge's po ...
, a city in Anderson and Roane Counties, Tennessee
*A nickname for
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
earned in the 1950s when it was the site of above-ground nuclear weapons testing.
*A nickname for
Piqua, Ohio
Piqua ( ) is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States, along the Great Miami River. The population was 20,354 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located north of Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, it is part of the Greater Dayton, Dayton metro ...
, from it having the first municipal nuclear power plant
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Nilore, Islamabad
Nilore () is a townsite-city in the Islamabad Capital Territory of Pakistan, located and established in the district limit of Islamabad. The city is located around 25 kilometers south-east of Islamabad, and controlled under the Islamabad Police t ...
, Nilore nicknamed "Northern Atomic City" hosted an apex scientific research in the 1960s led under
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1 ...
in Pakistan and it was established in 1960's as a research site for nuclear technology.
Entertainment
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"Atomic City" (Holly Johnson song)
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"Atomic City" (U2 song)
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The Atomic City
''The Atomic City'' is a 1952 American film noir thriller film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke.
The story takes place at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a nuclear physicist (Barry) lives and works. Terrorists ki ...
'', a 1952 film
*"Atomic City", a 2016 episode of
''Timeless'' (TV series)
See also
* Soviet
closed city
A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied.
Historically, the construction of closed cities became increasingly common after the beginning of the Cold War, particularly in the Soviet Union. Since t ...
sites for nuclear development, power, production, research
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Atomic (disambiguation)
Atomic may refer to:
* Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties
* Atomic physics, the study of the atom
* Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era"
* Atomic scale, distances comp ...
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City (disambiguation)
A city is generally an urban settlement with a large population.
City or Cities may also refer to:
Literature and publications
* ''City'' (novel), a 1952 novel by Clifford D. Simak
* ''City'' (magazine), a Finnish magazine
*'' City: Magazine Int ...
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Nuketown (disambiguation)
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