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links that go Boom!

  • Project Tooth Fairy
  • details: Minuteman III
  • Insider Info: being a Minuteman 'Missileer'
  • Minuteman Lauch Center: photos and plans
  • Restricted Data - lots of well researched info on the manhatten Project and the early Cold War
  • Jet Pilot Overseas - lots and lots of photos
  • Blast Door Art: how to decorate the 8 ton door to your ICBM contol capsule.
  • living underground in LUXURY
  • BIG BOOK of Soviet Civil Defense ...пожалуйста поцеловать вашу задницу, хорошую пока!
  • 'The Nature and Feasibility of War and Deterrence' this is it- the real Dr. Strangelove' (Herman Kahn) and his big 'how-to' for WW3
  • The Armageddon Letters
  • Civil Defense Siren MUSEUM
  • 'Undisclosed Location' Site 'R'
  • CD Pamphlet- 1963
  • Mister Minuteman
  • Dogtags For Children
  • B-29 'Superfortress'- the first atomic bomber
  • 'Little Boy' the Hiroshima bomb
  • Atomic Museum Kirkland AFB
  • History of Nuclear Stockpiles
  • ... Russian officer saves world!
  • N. Carolina Civil Defense history- better than it sounds!
  • wiki- HERMAN KAHN - the real Dr. Strangelove
  • Herman Kahn- 1962- 'Problems To Come"
  • SAC HISTORY "toe to toe nuclear combat"
  • OAKRIDGE NAT. LABS- whats doin' with the Tennessee boys
  • MISSILE NEWS- the latest up-to-date ICBM gossip!
  • Los Alamos- the MAD scientists put together their history.
  • more ATOMIC LISTS- don't leave home without them!
  • list of US NUCLEAR WEAPONS- tell Santa what you really want!
  • NEUTRON BOMB- surprising, in-depth information from the inventor
  • SIOP an online book about nuclear war strategy
  • Fallout Shelter NYC- hard to navigate but lot's of hidden treasure!
  • Life in a ICBM Silo
  • Radioactive Museum
  • Protect and Survive- reference and links about the UK Civil Defense series
  • ABM site- Grand Forks
  • Project Pluto- scary!
  • Aircraft Launched Missiles
  • Air Raid Sirens
  • "Battle stations Missile!"
  • more about RAPATRONIC photography
  • graphic CHART OF BOMBS
  • panaorama views of Nevada test sites
  • Underground Soviet Submarine Base- say that twenty times real fast!
  • Nuclear Weapon Archive- chuck full o facts
  • Canada's Cold War bunker
  • Strategic-Air-Command- preserving the history of S.A.C
  • the last voice you hear...
  • Build an Atomic Bomb- amaze your friends
  • Dr. Bruce Blair, Phd.- smart guy and former Air Force Nuclear Launch officer
  • atomic war on TV- pass the popcorn!
  • look for a missle silo- don't tell them I sent you!
  • The Bomb Project- more links
  • Rand Corp.- heavy reading
  • fellow blogger "A Hole in the Head" how to's of civil defense
  • the REAL Dr. Stranglove?
  • put some boom in your weekend!
  • Federation of American Scientists- NOT party animals, but lots of good info
  • Ed's Nike Missle Site- 3,2,1...
  • Department of Energy- atomic testing snapshots.
  • decorating the blast door of your missle silo
  • Beckham Cavern- former fallout shelter now a bed and breakfast- this is how doomsday bunkers should look!
  • Cold War Landscape- oh boy, silos and bunkers and stuff!
  • CONELRAD- all things atomic
  • extra and additional CONELRAD

VIDEO LINKS- some videos are constantly being put up and taken down

  • Conelrad TV - PSA
  • Facts About Fallout!
  • "Facts About Fallout"
  • Fighting Through the Fallout: USAF!
  • 1960 - British Fallout!
  • 1959 - Air Force Missile Mission
  • TSAR BOMB
  • "Three Reactions to Shelter Life"
  • "Forbidden Area" 1956 Playhouse 90
  • "The Lost Missile" unstoppable mystery craft Zorches all in path- hero scientist must postpone wedding!
  • Skydiving and Scuba diving with your Nuke!
  • Race for the Superbomb
  • When Bitain Ruled the Skies!
  • "Things To Come!" 1936 H.G. Wells movie- great stuff!
  • "The Day After - ATTACK: fairly accurate depeiction showing initial high altitude EMT blast- followed by [5 or more] 1 megaton MIRV strikes
  • Vulcan bomber (UK) 1960
  • 'Invasion: USA' this is a movie that would have been better if Ed Wood had made it!
  • Minuteman - From Design To Delivery (1963)
  • Tour of Atlas Silo
  • Atlas: ICBM
  • 'Survive To Fight!' AFB continues to function after being nuked.
  • 'Atomic Alert' Elementary School Version- 1951
  • British and French Nuclear Bombers
  • Atomic Powered Bomber
  • "Missiles of October' 1974 ABC 150 mins
  • US Strategic Nuclear Policy: how we planned to blow-up the world so that we wouldn't!
  • World's Biggest Bomb- PBS
  • Race for the Superbomb- PBS
  • "Jet Pilot' full length feature- 1957
  • British SuperJet- BAC TSR-2
  • 'A Short Vision' scary Art Film about atomic war- aired on Ed Sullivan in 1956
  • Individual Protection Against Atomic Attack -
  • Self-Preservation in Atomic Attack- Army Training Film
  • 'Windscale' near disaster- Britain
  • Documentary SERIES- Cold War
  • Google Earth tour- Site 'R'
  • TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT dramatic re-enacment of moment of the Cuban Missle Crisis
  • UK 'H-Bomb'
  • UK 'V Bombers'
  • UK 'Blue Streak' ICBM
  • WARNING RED- a guy stops to get ice cream, gets nuked
  • Living In A Shelter: 1964- dramatization
  • Emergence From Shelter
  • Strength Of SAC
  • The Global Shield- 1980
  • NIKE Defense- The Inner Ring
  • Survive To Fight- 1968
  • About Fallout
  • Bomberguy- superb collection of aviation videos
  • "Blast from the Past' fun movie about young man who emerges from fallour shelter after 30 years
  • 'Flash Of Darkness' 1955 TV - drama of MD helping after atomic bombing
  • Guide To Armageddon- British
  • USAF Nuclear War Alert Simulation - 1958
  • 'I Married a Communist' 1949 trailer- also known as 'The Woman on Pier 12'
  • B-58 Champion- chance for us to work on our Jimmy Stewart imitations!
  • B-58 bomber- first flight- 1956
  • Twilght Zone: The Shelter
  • 'Steve Canyon' promo for 1958 TV series
  • SAC Alert Drill
  • Nuclear Detonation Montage
  • Trinity And Beyond- The Atomic Bomb Movie
  • H- Bomb Test- newsreel
  • Operation Doorstep
  • Fallout and the Farm- how to protect Bossie and Chicken Little!
  • Nuclear Might- READY BUT SAFE!
  • scary British civil defense film
  • More British scary Civil Defense video!
  • NEW DECLASSIFIED FILMS- 'new' is a relevant term here- lot's of wonderful detail- boring to most- fascinating to me!
  • The Twilight Zone- where would our nightmares of Doomsday be without Rod Serling?
  • The Outer Limits- super spooky TV from the height of the Cold War
  • SONICBOMB- an aesthetic approach to weapons of mass destruction
  • Prelinger Archives- amazing collection
  • 'Fallout' - what to do! with lots of spooky music.
  • 'Sound An Alarm' the Brits make the best CD films!
  • "Missiles of October' 1974 ABC 150 mins

other links

  • COMIX by Pappy
  • ATOMIC PULP- obsessively melting-down
  • RADIATION CINEMA
  • an appreciation of THE OMEGA MAN
  • FANTASTIC FLASHBACKS
  • Dreams Of Space- great collection of space-age illustration!
  • ILLUSTRATIONS comics, pulp and beyooond!
  • DOE: How to warn of radiation hazards ten thousand years from now?
  • Consuming Images- cold war collages
  • Mondorama 2000- it's French retro-illus!
  • Paul Malon's flickr site- amazing hi-res scans of thousands of old ads and ephemera
  • Steve Canyon adventure comic strip
  • Java's Bachelor Pad- Populuxe Music Extraordinare
  • ULTRA-SWANK PHOTOS great 50's and 60's swingin' photos
  • German sci-fi artists, list on left, very cool- chance to practice your German
  • Tales of Future Past- wonderful lavishly illustrated site
  • Vintage Ads
  • PaleoFuture- a look into the future that never was
  • Bachelor Pad Radio- hip and cool Baby!
  • Fluxstringer- lovable curmudgeon
  • LP COVER LOVER- the world's best, and worst, album covers
  • I'M LEARNING TO SHARE- time for a little show and tell
  • KITSCHY, KITSCHY COO- couldn't be cuter
  • RETROSPACE- retro and spacey
  • MILLIE MOTTS- visual serendipity
  • JON WILLIAMSON's PHOTOSTREAM- endless collection of retro ads
  • VIEWLINER- big retro photos AND trains!
  • INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEER- home of the Gobbler!
  • JAMES LILEKS- best blog going
  • VINTAGE ADS- and lots of 'em
  • SHORPY- history in hi-resolution
  • MODERN MECHANIX- yesterday's tomorrow today
  • STIRRED STRAIGHT UP WITH A TWIST- urbane retro sophisticate
  • LEIFPENG- wonderful flickr site of mid-century illustration
  • RETRO SCANS- fun ads and scantily clad nymphs
  • FOUND IN MOM's BASEMENT- wonderful
  • ULTRASWANK- a really swingin' Scandanavian
  • NEATORAMA- all over the place fun

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