... more B-70 magic!

... yes fans- it's more of Uncle Jim's art work! 

This is another piece produced using large scale practical models. AND it is for sale (without the text) HERE; prints, posters, t-shirts, mugs and about a hundred other ways including a shower curtain!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/b-70-head-on-swoop-james-vaughan.html
...oooo- that would be an awesome shower curtain!

1948 ... B-45 "Tornado"

... the first US operational jet bomber, the "Tornado" gained importance as it assumed a tactical nuclear delivery assignment when atomic bombs became smaller and lighter.

1962 ...time for everyone to PANIC!

...directed by and starring Ray Milland, "Panic in the Year Zero" uses the aftermath of nuclear war as an excuse for one of those crazy teenagers versus good old American values plots that were so common in the 1950's and early 60's. Everybody sure seems panicky alright; with acting roles divided between angry, hysterical or psycho. I'm just glad that Ray Milland wasn't my Dad!

... 36 hour war - catastrophe!

... my jaw dropped when I found this sensationalistic warning of a possible Atomic War in an issue of LIFE magazine - dated November 19, 1945!  Just a few months after the World War II ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the head of the US Air forces, Gen. 'Hap' Arnold, lays out in remarkable accuracy the future dangers of a war fought with nuclear tipped ICBM's.

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... 36 hour war - incoming!

... 36 hour war - tracking the attack!

... in 1945 RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) was still pretty whiz bang, high tech stuff. Searching outer-space for incoming rockets was at least a decade away. This illustrations reminds me of scenes from the 'B' science fiction classic 'Fiend Without a Face' . The AV Kid has the whole movie here.  In the movie the search for atomic powered Radar has the side-effect of producing  invisible brain sucking monsters - of course!  

Wonder if 'Hap' Arnold didn't want to tell us about that?

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... 36 hour war - missile interception!

... 36 hour war - atomic missile complex!

... 36 hour war - paratroop invasion!

 

...LIFE magazine was never shy about including a buxom blond for reader appeal!

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... 36 hour war - rubble of New York!

... the song of the end of the world.

" ... yes of course the wailing sirens, the man-machine of Gabrielle’s last long trumpet solo.

Throw open the Cathedral doors and the front door and the screen porch door, any second the pure and horrible white light growing beyond seeing , beyond blindness, beyond purple and far spectrum violet.

In those few seconds that the Universe has left, the final time the sky will ever be blue and the grass still alive and green, in that last aching sentence of all of our lives; we listen to it, perfect and crisp across the last morning of the last day of the last Spring...

the Song of the End of the World!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erMO3m0oLvs

... pre-fab fallout shelter!

1960... Wonder Book- How And Why

1951 ... more atomic comic combat!

1951 ...

Before the advent of Hydrogen Bombs made mere survival problematic, there was a lot of ballyhoo about the need for good citizens to crawl out of the rubble, dust themselves off and get to work on bringing the GNP back up.

...here's the AV Kid with "Our Cities Must Fight"

1958 ... Regulus II

... downwind

From our 1960's Civil Defense friends, a film about Fallout with music as spooky as this map!

The Arctic was a pretty important place during the Cold War. It was from the North and over the Pole that the Russian bombers would come. It was the shortest and fastest route.

... here's the AV Kid with a cool newsreel about the Distant Early Warning line (DEW)
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.52896

The Dream of Atomic Powered Flight !

below: Science and Mechanics 1961

A study of the effects of the "direct" heating method of putting air straight thru the reactor which would produce a radioactive exhaust contrail was codenamed "Project Halitosis".