Living in the '50s must've been cool (aside from the racism and constant gnawing fear of nuclear annihilation)—I mean just look at all these cool atomic-themed toys to play with! Our friends at Oobject have assembled the 12 best. When you're done finding ways to make your kids glow in the dark, check out these nuke-po…
Enrico Fermi had just won the Nobel Prize when he showed up at the Navy Department in D.C. to warn of the danger posed by his own recent discoveries in nuclear physics.
Images of the incredible individuals behind the Manhattan Project and their lives at Los Alamos.
Practice bombing, improve your score, Be the ace of your own air corps. Oh yes, this is just the thing for the young. Nothing like good basic war toys, just see what joy it brings to the kids face.…
Art,fashion,design,technology etc from the atomic space age
Moeko Fujii writes on the Japanese-American artist Michael Koerner’s photo series “My DNA,” which confronts the effects that the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki has had on his family.
Van de Graff Generator at the American Museum of Atomic Energy Oak Ridge, Tennessee Through the Information and Exhibits Division, the Oak Ridge associated universities operates a major exhibits program for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission devoted to telling the public the story of the peaceful application of atomic energy, on unclassified phases of the Commission's research and development activities.
Let’s have a look at a kitchen miscellany – images gathered from advertising and other ephemera from the 1950s through the 1970s.
A typhoon was coming, the fuel pump failed, they had to switch planes, things were wired incorrectly, they missed their rendezvous, they couldn't see the primary target, they ran out of gas on the way home, and they had to crash-land. But the worst part was when the Fat Man atomic bomb started to arm itself mid-flight.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called “a splendid epic history” of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781565843431 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: New Press - The Publication Date: 01-01-1997 Pages: 608 Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d) Age Range: 14 - 18 YearsAbout the Author Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession; Division Street: America, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century; Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times; "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II; Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do; The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century; American Dreams: Lost and Found; The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith; Giants of Jazz; Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times; And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey; Touch and Go: A Memoir; P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening; and Studs Terkel's Chicago, all published by The New Press. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
To coincide with the BFI’s sci-fi season and its digital re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we thought this would be a good time to look at some of the British greats of the genre
Some of the world’s most enduring landmarks (perhaps you’ve heard of the Eiffel Tower?) were originally constructed for a World's Fair. We look back at 15 of our favorites.
Radium face cream made its debut in 1905: 'The radium in the cream energizes the cells of the skin so that they throw off impurities... producing the charming glow of delicate color.'
Isaac Asimov Too often, in this social media-happy, twitter-drowning, sound-byte-bit world of ours, we use quotes like a dopamine hit: to make us feel just slightly better, but not to go dee...
On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
Miyako Ishiuchi (b. 1947) has long used photography as a medium for expressing Japan’s memory and mourning. This was particularly evident in her “Mother’s” series (2000-05), exhibited in the Japanese Pavilion of the 2005 Venice Biennale: a group of photographs of personal articles, from lipstick to lingerie, once belonging to the artist’s late mother, whose life of wartime hardship and postwar motherhood resembled a 1940s melodrama. The point was driven home more recently in “Hiroshima/Yokosuka,” a partial retrospective of Ishiuchi’s work held at the Meguro Museum of Art in Tokyo.
The nuclear test of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon was codenamed Trinity, but the atomic device was nicknamed The Gadget. The date of the Trinity test is usually…
These eerie LIFE magazine photos show the aftermath of an atomic bomb test on a replica town in the Nevada desert in 1955. The replica town was populated
Las Vegas is known as the city of lights and, at one time, that light was the glow of an atomic detonation in the Nevada desert. Starting in 1951, the…
Seattle city officials held a progress review meeting today to update the city's civil defense preparations. The meeting was hastily ordered by Mayor Nickels after a city clerk discovered an obscure city code dating back to the 50s that requires the city to update its civil defense plans and distribute updated materials to the public every ten years. Seattle has not updated its civil defense plans since 1951. ...changes to the civil defense materials include updates to lists of subversive organizations and replacing detailed explanations of death by atom bomb with comprehensive descriptions of death by chemical or biological attack. We're pretty proud of what we were able to produce on such a short notice, said Mayor Nickels, who explained that updated civil defense pamphlets and books will be available to Seattle residents as early as next week.
“When I was a girl, I dreamt of standing in a room looking at a girl who was and was not myself, who stood looking at another girl, who also was and was not myself. My mother took this for a nightmare. I saw it as the beginning of a career in physics.” ― Rosalind Lutece[src] Rosalind Lutece is a quantum physicist in BioShock Infinite, who wrote books about scientific studies on alternate universes. She and her "twin brother" Robert guide Booker DeWitt through his adventures in Columbia to retrie
Grand Jury testimony of the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass, released on Wednesday, may indicate Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly executed for espionage in 1953.
When crap goes down, how will you care for yourself or your family? Don't be caught unprepared. Have some basic knowledge of preparation and the tools you need.
Man being bombarded by ‘invisible’ rays. - Illustration from the 1963 PERSONAL AND FAMILY SURVIVAL text for the Nuclear-Age Civil Defense Adult Education Course. Published by the Dept. of Defense and...
While the basics of WWII are widely known, there are more than a few fascinating facts that may have slipped past you - here are just 30 of them! Leonard
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A century ago, on Dec. 6, 1917, the collision between a freighter and a munitions ship generated the biggest man-made explosion of the pre-atomic age. It leveled a Canadian city.
Enrico Fermi, Italian-born American nuclear physicist, constructor of the first working nuclear reactor, in the control room of the Chicago synchro-cyclotron, c1942. Source: Oxford Scientific Library.
Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today.
On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert.
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“Atomic science began as positive, creative thought.”
On July 16, 1945, an area near San Antonio, New Mexico was the site of an unprecedented event: the very first nuclear detonation at what is now referred to as the Trinity Site.
How the “typical American family” fared in “Doom Town,” 1953.
The videophone spent nearly a century as every bit as much a "technology of the future" as the flying car and the jetpack. We were always this close to making our picturephone dreams come true. And then we did, in a way no one expected.
The fallout cloud from the Baneberry test was never supposed to exist.
At its height in 1945, 75,000 people lived in the Tennessee town of Oak Ridge which was so secretive it didn't appear on any maps.
Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today.
