... now that I am doing illustration work for the Aerospace Industry I keep thinking that my 'expertise' on nuclear weapons will come in handy. But these days they mostly want Sesame Street warm and fuzzy - instead of spine tingling terror. Oh well.
... zooooom!
... all from the excellent Flickr collection of Pcarsola LINK
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1959 ... Khrushchev pollinates!
... here is Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in what looks to be his visit to America's heartland in 1959. Below is a link to an excellent documentary on the visit from the folks at PBS and 'The American Experience'
... silent and deadly!
... study your Civil Defense!
... as we all know - the first guys out of the Shelter always get eaten by Giant Mutant Cockroaches... or Zombies!
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1957 ... look pretty for the camera!
... June 24, 1957 Frenchman Flat, Nevada test site. 'Priscilla' shot: 39 kiloton.
1986 ... Soviet Civil Defense!
... more from this endless series of Soviet Civil Defense posters. No way around it; digging slit trenches and then covering them with a layer of earth looks way too much like digging your own grave!
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1950 ... "How to Protect Yourself in an Atomic Attack"
... Grim - that was the mood of Civil Defense advice at the start of the Cold War. Five short years after the end of WW2 and many people felt that an atomic slug-fest with the 'Reds' was inevitable.
Here's a helpful film to prepare us for what is coming in 1951 - in grim black and white narrated grimly by Edward R. Murrow.
1946 ... "the wing will fly!"
... the swirl of controversy and regret about the Flying Wing and it's ill-fate attempt to become America's first true intercontinental bomber will never fade! Plenty of evil doing and dooers by Convair and corrupt politicians. But the long and short of it was that without modern computerized controls the tailess design would have been hell to control at the high altitudes that would be required for the nuclear mission.
90 min docu. tells the whole dramatic tale.
1958 ... cold-war soap opera!
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1953 ... "blowin' the chickens around the barnyard!"
... results of a fun little project of my photo-illustration work. In cooperation with professional model maker Guy Pernetti and diorama artist extraordinaire Michael Paul Smith. LINK
... not that this sort of thing didn't really happen!
1954 ... a fine pickle!
... I think this is a fictional account; but no doubt inspired by the run-away Castle-Bravo test earlier in 1954 - LINK
... bring US your Mig!
...Korean War leaflet dropped by America 'behind enemy lines' offering a reward for Communist pilots willing to defect - with their aircraft.
(including example of happy Soviet pilot that did)
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