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Various atomic coffee makers featured on the fantastic Atomic historical website: www.atomiccoffeemachine.com
Yes indeedy. : )
A beautiful soup plate in the Cathay pattern, manufactured by Taylor Smith & Taylor in 1964.
Was chilling in the morning,felt like going up the stairs and take some photos.
This came out pretty darn sweet.
Atomic in accordance with the Linkin Park theme. (A Thousand Suns)
Skin: Atomic Baily Honey VIP Gift 2 (previous group gift)
Hair: Maitreya sasha Bistre (50L for Haiti)
Eyes: Exodi Vetro Grey (and natural lashes)
Cardigan: Nylon Outfitters (NO) babypink knit jacket
Shorts: Maitreya Jean Shorts Faded
Shoes: Atomic Bunny Flop (2009 April VIP Gift)
Necklace: Scarlia Inc [SI] toggle choker (I think it was a group gift)
Location: Katat0nik
National Atomic Testing Museum
Doomtown IV: Downtown Vegas, 1958 with Mushroom Cloud
Doug Waterfield
National Museum of the US Air Force
[Corning Fresnel Lens]
ATOMIC BOMB ALARM
THE EARLY DAYS OF EARLY WARNING
In the 1960s, The US Air Force needed a sure way to know quickly whether Soviet bombers or missiles had struck American cities and bases with nuclear weapons. This small device, part of a nation wide "Bomb Alarm Display System, " was designed to send warning signals to military command centers to confirm that an attack had occurred.
The Bomb Alarm Display System, operational from 1961-1967, was intended to confirm whether nuclear weapons had detonated in the mainland US or at missile early-warning radar sites in Alaska, Greenland, and the United Kingdom. Knowing whether a nuclear attack had actually happened would help leaders decide how to respond, and would help avoid launching missiles by mistake. The bomb alarm network, made by the Western Union Telegraph Company, monitored about 100 military sites and US population centers using sensors like the one on display. At Strategic Air Command, the North American Air Defense Command, the Pentagon, and other military headquarters, large electronic maps displayed the whole network.
Sensors were mounted on buildings or telephone poles and placed several miles apart around cities and bases. If a nuclear blast occurred, the unit would send a warning signal to a control center before the sensor was destroyed. The bomb alarm was not sensitive to lightning, sunlight, or electrical surges. Photocells inside the glass lens reacted only to the flash of a nuclear explosion. Western Union designed the Bomb Alarm Display System beginning in 1959, and in 1962 the network was complete. One drawback was that it responded only after an attack -it did not give advance warning. Another drawback was that it relied on commercial telephone or telegraph lines, which could be damaged. Though the bomb alarms made military decision-making more reliable, better communication systems and satellites made the network unnecessary by the late 1960s.
Donated by Col George Kougias, USAF (ret)
Atomic age for the win. A delightful creamer in the classic Swiss Alpine Chalet pattern by Marcrest, manufactured in 1960.
Atomic Vintage. Anna Frances Catherine Smith, Amy Cecilia Leigh, Alannah Deanne and Stacy Hayes. MUA: Stephanie Sellars & Model: Sophie Needham
Today marks the 73rd Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. While in Hiroshima last week I was able to walk the grounds around the only building left standing from that horrible day. Hopefully the world has learned from this tragedy and we never repeat this horrible act again.
Dated 1951, these instructions for merchant vessels in port in the event of "atomic attack" are posted in several locations aboard Red Oak Victory. The instructions were issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, and remained posted until the ship was withdrawn from service for the last time in 1968.
SS Red Oak Victory, a Boulder Victory-class cargo ship built during World War II, is the only survivor of the 747 ships built at the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards. She is one of only three surviving Victory ships, larger and faster than the earlier Liberty ships.
Launched as SS Red Oak Victory, she was named in honor of Red Oak, Iowa, a town that had suffered a disproportionate number of casualties during the war. She was then commissioned as a U.S. Navy cargo ship, USS Red Oak Victory (AK-235), serving as an ammunition ship in the South Pacific until the end of World War II.
Red Oak Victory was crewed by the U.S. Merchant Marine during activations in support of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and several international relief operations.
Today she is a museum ship, berthed at what remains of the Kaiser Richmond shipyard.
Red Oak Victory web site:
Red Oak Victory (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Red_Oak_Victory
U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command:
www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/da...
National Atomic Testing Museum
Phoebus Reactor Engine Tests
Phoebus (named after the Greek Sun Chariot God) reactors were more powerful and technically advanced versions of the Kiwi B-4 reactors. The Phoebus 2A reactor engine generated about twice the specific impulse (thrust per unit flow of propellant) achieved by the best chemical rockets. Phoebus 2A contained 4,000 fuel elements and was the most powerful nuclear rocket engine ever built; it was designed to deliver 5,000 megawatts of thermal power and 250,000 pounds of thrust. However, the Phoebus 2A rocket engine test conducted in June 1968 was limited to about 80% of full power due to the overheating of a pressure vessel clamp.
Artifact Courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory. On loan from the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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named for SS Savannah, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship. Built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies, Savannah was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy.[5] Launched on 21 July 1959, she was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built. Savannah has been moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland since 2008.
Wayne Violette recovering film after the Atomic Test named Milrow on the Aleutian island, Amchitka. The Milrow test was a 1 Megaton precurser to the Cannikin test which was the largest undergound test the US conducted at 5 Megatons, almost 400 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb .
The year is 2047, and after an nuclear holocaust, a new species emerged... The atomic snapping turtle.
Lanzamiento de disco "Sights of Suffering" de la legendaria banda de Death Metal Chileno "ATOMIC AGGRESSOR".
Lugar: Club Kmasú Premiere
Fecha: 25 de abril de 2015.