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Popularly- and Commonly-Named Atomic and Nuclear Stuff

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Below are 66 examples of Cold War era stuff and consumer bits relating to atomic/nuclear and big-boom weapons. All are found in my pinterest page, here, which also houses about 4,000 odd/interesting images that have been collected by Dr. Odd of the Unbelievablorium.

Superman in WWII

Just 14 years before Slim Pickens in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Kirk Alyn (as Superman) took a somewhat less fatal missile ride in Columbia's "Atom Man vs. Superman," (Chapters 12-15). [pr]

Canadian Cold War Poster: "Bea Alerte Says, 'Disaster May Never Occur Here...'"

"ATO McBOMB" ATOMIC BOMB-INSPIRED MYSTERY CHARACTER BUTTON. ~1940s

Nuclear War

1950s bomber attack scenario page

Atomic Age

Atom Age Combat -1958

COLD WAR

Atomic Dining Room Augusta, Georgia, 1952

"Its an H Bomb from the Moon" #atomic

Rube Goldberg's Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoon, 1947.

Atomic bomb and end of world as bible prophecy.

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This ... does not seem like a good plan. Fantastic Four by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.

"The Princess of the Atom": New acquisition for the History of Atomic Energy Collection, Series 15: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Music

Two Way Mike, Air Captain Badge, & Goggles - Exhibit at the Mercer: Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb; 1945-1965 Mercer Museum

1950--a bomb-graph of death

Miss Earth, 1952.

1950s: Bea Alerte and Justin Case say Will it Happen Here?, Canada Civil Defense

No City is Safe..bomber attack scenarios

Make no mistake...Civilians CAN be bombed..."

From the Atomic Testing museum in Vegas.

All Metal Bomb

Superboy with #atomic explosion in stomach

Early Cold War Scare Movies were just that -- scary. Some were silly, but when I was a kid, these were scarier than any monsters ever were.

Stay down at least ONE minute!

Hip Hip Hooray For Rudolph's Radioactive Red Nose!(?)

Marx Atomic Submarine

5 Cent "Atomic Bomber" Arcade Skill Game c1946, by International Mutoscope Corp., New York

Mid-Century Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962

12 Nuclear Toys from the Dawn of the Atomic Age

12 Nuclear Toys from the Dawn of the Atomic Age

Atomic chef.

Educational Toys Of Yesteryear Taught Important Atomic Bomb Dropping Skills

Dr. History: Cold War Toys

Atomic dreams.

adapting to outside world

Atomic bomb dart game.

Atomic nemesis

Atomic cloud hairdoo. It would go well with the atomic bomb swimsuit, mushroom cloud sunglasses and atomic bomb cake that appear on my blog somewhere.

This arresting image is a still from an extraordinary and scary 1946 film "One World or None" (published by the National Committee on Atomic Information and located at the Prelinger Archive

In this ad, appearing in the 12 May 1947 issue of LIFE Magazine, we are told "deserts will bloom through atomic power"--how this might happen is left to the imagination. Also left to fantasy is what exactly is being farmed there in front of the incongruous "atomic energy plant". Plastic smoke?

atomic bomb shield, NYC

PM Newspaper within hours of the dropping of the first bomb.

Atom bomb , NYC, 1946

Still from George Melies' "From the Earth to the Moon", loading the capsule into the space gun.

Subway/bus poster

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Atomic bomb dancers

As exicting as FAIL-SAFE!

Soviet American: The Fear of What Might Have Been

If there's a ATOMIC WARFARE this book may save your life!

Atomic bomb poker

Fallout shelter handbook.

#atomic cake cutting

Miss #Atomic Bomb, from, well, LIFE magazine.

#Atomic bomb survival suit patent drawings.

Superman covers atom bomb test (1946) #atomic

"Its an H Bomb from the Moon" #atomic

#Atomic bomb marble skill/patience game.

H-Bomb's effects on Chicago (Atomic hopes and fears series).

H-Bomb wipes out #Brooklyn (newspaper headline)

Brief guide to the #atomic age.

Images of USSR ICBMs landing in the US/1950.

#Atomic bomb in the Bible? Wrritten by Holocaust denier, 1945.

Atomic hope/fear: poster/mushroom cloud "fallout can reach your farm"

#Atomic hopes/fears: Remember "Civilians can be bombed" poster.

Atomic hope/fear: CD "you can protect your family".

Atomic hope/fear: doomed America "I This TOmorrow" poster.

Canada vs. atomic monsters.

Atomic city suspense!

Atomic monster.

Atomic eyes in Hollywoodland.

Atomic eyes in Hollywoodland, 1950's

Atomic bomb at year zero.

Christ & Atomic Power

Can We Atomize the Arctic?

Atomic

NYC under attack

Atomic

View of the blast

Miss Atomic Bomb (identity uncertain).

Atomic Firecracker

Atomic Firecrackers

vintage poster

Atomic Weather

'We have now entered the Atomic Age' - 1952 Illustration by Lester Quade.

If An A-Bomb Falls - (You can kiss your butt goodbye)

"Survival Under Atomic Attack"

Atomic Bombing, How To Protect Yourself

"If the Niagara Frontier is Bombed. What To Do In Case Of An Atomic Attack"

"Can Russia Defeat Us With Atom Bombs?", 1950

The Hell Bomb by J. Harold Smith

Superman covers atom bomb test (1946) #atomic

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Can we ATOMIZE the ARCTIC? odd... it looks a bit like a greeting card.

"Andy's #atomic adventures" comic.

#Atomic bomb as "proof of the spirit of god in us" 1945

Niagara Frontier Civil Defense Offices

Survival: How to Protect Yourself in the event of an Atomic Attack.

Operation A-Bomb

Civil Defense Manual front cover, circa 1955

Ptak Science Books: Atomic Bomb Civilian Defense Posters

Atomic Bomb Care (ABC) 1946

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#Atomic hope/fear: big mushroom cloud poster "you can protect yourself..."

Enormous Bikini Atoll mushroom cloud: CD poster.

Ptak Science Books: Atomic Bomb Civilian Defense Posters

Atomic WAR! (NYC destroyed series)

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