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Tango01

19 Aug 2014 11:08 p.m. PST

"For more than 40 years, the BREN Tower at the U.S. government's atomic warfare playground in Nevada held the record as the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River.

Its 1,527-foot height topped the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building. Few structures—among them North Dakota's KVLY-TV Mast, New York's World Trade Center, Chicago's Sears Tower and Toronto's CN Tower—stood taller on North America's soil.

The BREN Tower's stature was the result of an unusual requirement. Its height equaled the detonation altitude of Little Boy—the first nuclear weapon—when it exploded above downtown Hiroshima…"
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