Nevada was rightly chosen as a nuclear test site.
Except for time lapse photography there was way to tell the difference before and after the blast.
They do things a little differently in Nevada. This summer, was driving along a Nevada state highway not too far from Ely, rather early in the morning, and could see police cars coming towards me from maybe five miles away. Just in time I realized that they were coming down both sides of the two-lane highway at about 100 mph ahead of a flatbed truck carrying a huge culvert at almost that same speed.
Lucky for me that I guessed right as to which of the two very wide shoulders I was expected to occupy as this rather odd procession flashed past us.
In normal places, that culvert would have arrived an hour later, about when most people normally start work too.
But I love the austere scenery too, mind you, if you want absolute perfection of scenery, that is one state over to the east.