X-7b "Boom Town" Target Zone

 is a location in the east of the Big Empty near the X-8 Research Center.

Layout
Boom Town is a mock settlement set up for the express purpose of testing the performance of Saturnite artillery shells. It is paired with X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch facility. The entire area is irradiated as a side effect of weapons testing.

Notable loot

 * Nuka-Cola Quartz and Nuka-Cola Victory in the house to the NE of the area.
 * Atomic-valence tri-radii-oscillator and the guns skill book recipe can be found inside a footlocker in a crater north of the western-most house after firing the test cannon located at X-7a "Left Field" Artillery Launch.
 * A Patriot's Cookbook can be appropriately found in a mailbox near the center of town.
 * A strange cask (wooden barrel) can be found on a hill (outside the fence) just NE of the footlocker with the recipe for the Guns skill book. Inside and on top of the Cask are 4 bottles of Battle Brew.

Appearances
This location appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * The term "Boom Town" is military slang for artificial settlements they would build and fill with houses, cars and mannequins to see how atomic bombs would affect them during nuclear testing in the 1950s and 60s.