What I understand what a national security state is, is that the state is a place where nuclear weapons or even normal bombs are tested. Which this also started the secrecy in the United States. Many of the military leaders kept the nuclear bombs a secret from the people so people would fear nuclear weapons until they started doing domestic testing. They also had many things in secret because of the Red Scare for which people were thinking there were spies in the U.S. and the U.S. would become a communist country (Dean). I see Nevada and rural Utah being the National Security States because most of the land in those two states are wasteland and there is nothing around. So it is easy to test there without real domestic problems are the risk of killing thousands of people. Also being a wasteland would be easier to gauge how big the atomic bomb really is. I think national security states still somewhat exist because if we do end up going into nuclear warfare and we are making more nukes they need to be tested some how and I don’t think the United States would test nukes on other countries so they still use those states as just in case testing sites.