CONELRAD Adjacent

Atomic Secrets, Missing Persons and General Cold War Strangeness from the obsessives next door at CONELRAD.com

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Atomic Fiction for the Modern Housewife

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"She heard the screaming siren…she saw the flames…she struggled, wild with horror, but she was too feeble, and she knew there was no...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

FACE TO FACE WITH COMMUNISM

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“A tabulation by education tended to show that the less education a man had the more he liked the film.” -- Finding of a U.S. militar...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

OPERATION ALERT 1955 PROTESTS

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  An empty Times Square, shortly after 2 p.m. on June 15, 1955 Judge Louis Kaplan: Have you ever been committed to a mental institution? ...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

DUCK AND COVER: EXTRAS

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There were a few things from our history of the 1951 civil defense film, Duck and Cover , that we did not post back in 2004. As we were ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

IS THIS TOMORROW: AMERICA UNDER COMMUNISM!

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As David Hadju points out in his brilliant book The Ten-Cent Plague , the comic book was a huge mass-market medium to be reckoned with in...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

OPERATION ALERT BUS PASS

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On June 15, 1955, the annual civil defense drill known as Operation Alert was held throughout the United States. In New York City, bus drive...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

“THE LAST MOVIE”

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The script for Protection in the Nuclear Age is both tragic and comic. Above all, the picture portrayed of nuclear war is catastroph...
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