The eyes of two networks' television cameras will be turned toward Ground Zero, Yucca Flat, Nevada. At approximately 20 minutes after the hour, they will…
The Japanese, who well know the deadly aspects of atomic energy, have been getting their first look at its beneficial side. By tens of thousands they crowded…
Licking their platters and skillets clean, six crew-cut young men at Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver have been thriving on an atomic age diet. The youn…
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 workers decid…
At 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 month the…
Last week ( may 1955 - my annotation ), the hundreds of Civil Defense observers who had watched the churning, violent ascent of a fiery atomic cloud into the…
The initial outlay for the uranium prospector can vary widely. The ultimate in equipment (image above) begins with a four-wheel drive jeep ($1,685). Other ge…
Far 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 magnificen…
More 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 under constr…
Just before the photo above was shot three Pennsylvania State University scientists fed a long list of numbers, mathematical formulas and measurements into t…
Following the color movie of the "Operation Ivy" H-bomb test, April 19th, 1954, the Civil Defense Administration released color still photographs of…
At the University of California the biggest machine ever built for nuclear research has just begun to tear atoms apart with greater energy than any atom smas…
Most 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 those zo…
To help atomic engineers to reach into dangerously radiated chambers to assemble "hot" engine parts, The General Electric Company created the O-Man…
Though 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 for the …
This 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 grown at the C…
In 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 the first t…