During the heyday of nuclear testing, a giant tower was built out in the Nevada desert so an unshielded reactor could be placed at the top in order to see just how much radiation made it to the ground. The BREN tower was the tallest man made structure in the US that nobody knew about, but alas, her time has passed. On May 23, the tower was demolished with explosives (yes, there is video, but honestly the tower is so tall and the cameras so far away it is a bit anti-climactic), so let’s take a look back a piece of atomic history to commemorate.
