Defense tests in the H-bomb age have been designed to prove force of ex. plosives and permanence of buildings. In Houston, Texas, civil defense worke…
Read moreAt the U.N. Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy which opens in Geneva this August the U.S. will exhibit a full-sized working reactor. Last m…
Read moreLast week (may 1955 - my annotation), the hundreds of Civil Defense observers who had watched the churning, violent ascent of a fiery atomic cloud in…
Read moreThe initial outlay for the uranium prospector can vary widely. The ultimate in equipment (image above) begins with a four-wheel drive jeep ($1,685). …
Read moreFar out on the sagebrush plains of Idaho the Atomic Energy Commission gave, in august 1954, newsmen the first public inspection of one of its most ma…
Read moreMore electric power than all New York City used in 1954 was needed for a vast new development to expand America's atomic energy program, was unde…
Read moreJust before the photo above was shot three Pennsylvania State University scientists fed a long list of numbers, mathematical formulas and measurement…
Read moreFollowing the color movie of the "Operation Ivy" H-bomb test, April 19th, 1954, the Civil Defense Administration released color still phot…
Read moreAt the University of California the biggest machine ever built for nuclear research has just begun to tear atoms apart with greater energy than any a…
Read moreMost of the work in atomic plants is done by machines so that men will not be exposed to deadly radiation. But to do certain delicate repair jobs in …
Read moreTo help atomic engineers to reach into dangerously radiated chambers to assemble "hot" engine parts, The General Electric Company created t…
Read moreThough farmers have plowed their fields in many peculiar patterns, few designs have been as strange as that cut on Long Island in the spring of 1953 …
Read moreThis is a bit on the odd side of agriculture. A strange new kind of corn which glows with a cold blue fluorescence under ultraviolet light it is grow…
Read moreIn 1951 a couple of atom bomb tests in the Frenchman Flat of the Nevada desert caught the public's attention.This amazing photograph shows for th…
Read moreThe 50s and 60s were called the atom age. The power of atom was seen as the future, and if you ask me we should continue our pursuit for atom energy,…
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