1961 ... be prepared!

... Mrs. Macintosh was so busy reading her pamphlets and checking her dosimeter that she forgot she locked her family out of the shelter! ( not sure why she has so much info hung up on the clothesline?)

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1950 ... steely eyed defender!

... pilot in the cockpit of a F-84 Republic "Thunderjet".

 

... keeping up with the Jones's

"But Dad, I don't want to live in a sewer pipe!" 

"Shut-up and eat your Spam!"

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1951 ... tight test!

... it takes a brave man to wear a bow-tie and test a rather poor design attempt at a combination oxygen mask and flight helmet! "What's that Elmer?" "Izzztutiigght" "Did you say it's too tight?"

 

1956 ... pandemonium in space!

... hard to figure out just what is going on in this 1956 sci-fi illustration- except it's a bad day for the USA!

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1964 ... "Dr. Strangelove"

... as President Merken Muffley (Peter Sellars) listens to his advisers; a crew member aboard Major Kong's B-52 proceeds toward target in the Soviet Union.

 

... B-47 portraits!

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1966 ... RAF Early Warning!

... cool views of giant antennas inside of even larger radomes!

 

1951 ... Red radar jets!

1959 ... more cities underground!

... more great stuff from our buddies at Atomic Skies! A university study from the late nineteen fifty's about the need for America to start building new cities underground. For the complete article go HERE.

 

... Army supplies the DEW Line "The Big Picture"

... love these "Big Picture" documentaries. Can't get anymore serious and heartfelt than a Master Sergent with a pencil-mustache!

1952 ... March Of Time: Report on the Atom!

1961 ... Riens Of Command

... cool! Old Jimmy "Dutch Holland" Stewart hosts a look at vacuum tube era super-communications needed to fight, and win, an Atomic War!

1962 ... beauties and Nike Hercules

... we have to wonder if this Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile has it's standard 20 kiloton atomic warhead onboard?

 

1958 ... Atlas ICBM

... test of the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile at Cape Canaveral Florida.

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1962 ... Greenbriar Bunker - cafeteria

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1958 ... Umbrella Shot: Operation Hardtack

... 9 kiloton detonation in shallow water to test various effects for nuclear armed torpedoes and anti-ship mines.

1958 ... global guardian!

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1957 ... a Red moon?

1959 ... drama- suspense!

1956 ... missile motor oil?

... hey- if linking your motor-oil to nuclear war makes more money- go for it!

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1960 ...hard to find!

1958 ... early 'payload' nose - Atlas

... various shapes were tried for nose-cones holding the nuclear warhead of early ICBM missiles. This is an early Atlas configuration with the 'bomb' riding and nestled behind this semi blunt cone shape.

 

1953 ... chilling terror!

...'Collier's' magazine seemed to be especially good at scaring the snot out of it's readers over the Soviet threat and impending end of the world. This cover article is about nerve-gas.

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