X-7b "Boom Town" Target Zone

X-7b "Boom Town" target zone is a location in the east of the Big MT near the X-8 research center.

Layout
Boom Town is a mock settlement set up for the express purpose of testing the performance of the Saturnite artillery shells. It is paired alongside the X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch facility. The entire area is irradiated as a side effect of the weapons testing, coupled with craters full of green, toxic/radioactive waste.

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.

Зона целеуказания X-7b «Бух-Город»