While the Strip was booming, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on January 27, 1951 detonated the first of over a hundred atmospheric explosions at the Nevada Test Site. Despite the dangers and risks of radiation exposure from the fallout, which were greatly underestimated at the time, Las Vegas advertised the explosions as another tourist attraction and offered Atomic Cocktails in the "Sky Room" restaurant at the Desert Inn that provided the highest view of the mushroom clouds. During this time the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce successfully pushed for Vegas to become nicknamed the "Atomic City".< Several Miss Atomic pageants were also held to help display the city's modernity and to continue spinning messages on the nearby testing to tourists.