I first heard about this six years ago on----never mind. Anyway, Jackass Flats, (yes, that's its actual name), Nevada, was supposed to be the base of
the American space program back in the 1960s. This would be the nuclear,
not conventional, space program. If Project Orion hadn't been cancelled, it
probably would have been launched from there. The site was proposed as a
possible museum back in the '90s.