... fallout washday
...I hope this proposed system from the 1950's pulled water from below the surface!Here is a similar system in use today- http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/110129-N-5483N-468.jpg
1962 ... 'One More Pallbearer' Twilight Zone
Ruthless millionaire, Paul Radin, invites three people to the bomb shelter that he has built. One is a high school teacher Mrs. Langford, who failed him; the second is Colonel Hawthorne, who had him court-martialed; and the third is Rev. Hughes, who made a public scandal out of a woman who committed suicide over him. Radin (with the aid of sound effects and fake radio messages) convinces the trio that an apocalyptic nuclear war will occur in just moments. He offers them refuge in the shelter if they do one thing: apologize for their actions. All refuse, valuing honor above life, and exit. Suddenly, the sound of a bomb detonation shakes Radin's shelter. He takes the elevator to the surface and sees that a nuclear war really has occurred, and the world is in ruins. This twist ending is given another twist, however, when we learn that Radin, devastated by his hoax's failure, has lost his mind and is only imagining that the world has ended.
1954 ... Rickover dives deeper
... father of America's Atomic Submarines, Adm. Hyman Rickover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickover
... backyard suburbia
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... as dramatically iconic as the single family fall-out shelter was, relatively few were actually built. Looks like these folks had some extra concrete left over so they paved the backyard! |
1958 ... 'Steve Canyon' tv show
'Steve Canyon' began as a long running newspaper adventure comic strip. The strip was created by Milton Caniff in 1947, the same year as the Air Force became a separate service.In 1958, Dean Fredericks played Col. Canyon in 34 episodes of the television version on NBC.
Fun for Cold War weirdos and plane enthusiasts, boring for normal folk.
Episodes display very accurate details and are focused on hardware and training. Dean Fredericks went on to star in 'The Phantom Planet' in 1961.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Canyon
http://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PVl02MByo
http://riphaywire.com/stevecanyon/
... gotta love a site that's named 'Rip Haywire' !
1956 ... 'Operation Alert'
... 'Operation Alert:1956' was a nationwide Civil Defense drill. During the exercise President Eisenhower and other members of the government were evacuated from Washington DC to a remote tent city. Evacuation was a viable Civil Defense option during a 'crisis' situation when Nuclear War might seem imminent. In 1956, before ICBM missiles, Russian bombers would take more than eight hours to reach American cities.http://www.conelrad.com/atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=03
1952 ... paper airplane defense!
As I have said before, in the propaganda war we had an edge over the Soviets- we had advertising on our side!
1950 ... sneak attack!
I've got to wonder how many billions of dollars in defense contracts these wonderful and scary Frank Tinsley illustrations were worth?from Mechanix Illustrated
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