Atomic Energy Commission guards practice marksmanship in the New Mexico desert. 1953

... will Russia strike in '54?


1959 ... Delta Dart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-106_Delta_Dart

1951 ... clobbering the commies!




... Republic XF-84

... more crazy Cold War designs! This one made people sick- literally!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-84H_Thunderscreech

... B-83 nuclear weapon


Put into service in 1983 the B-83 has an adjustable warhead with yields in the low Kiloton range up to 1.2 Megaton ( =1,200,000 tons of TNT) 650 were built and they remain in service. These days, if America air dropped a nuclear weapon on your head, it would probably be one of these.

... tres boom!

... more pretty pictures from French hydrogen bomb tests.