Atom Bomb Baby

[warrprayer]

Just the thing for getting in the "retaliatory strike" mood....

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[In_The_Wind]

1. Ya think

[warrprayer]

2. ... memories

It was an inside joke with the Airplane that they put a mushroom cloud on an RCA album cover. (RCA was instrumental in manufacturing the bomb)

"IN LOYALTY TO THEIR KIND - THEY CANNOT TOLERATE OUR MINDS
IN LOYALTY TO OUR KIND - WE CANNOT TOLERATE THEIR OBSTRUCTION"

[jakeXT]

3. Al Rex - Hydrogen Bomb

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[warrprayer]

4. Conelrad is da bomb!

'Flaming Bess" (rare early Golden Earring)

(mushroom cloud is "eight miles high&quot

[DFW]

5. My father was present at an above-ground test and took these photos

Keep in mind that this was from MANY miles away. Hard to grasp that they had people present for this.

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[Arctic Dave]

6. Whoa!

Did he work at Los Alamos?

[struggle4progress]

7. About 99.9% of the 1000+ tests in the US were at the Nevada test site

and in a number of the tests military conscripts were sent in as observers

[DFW]

11. He was a military conscript in 1943. His army time was spent worrying about Nazis.

This test was in 1957, and he was there as an invited member of the Washington press.

They were told, of course, that they would be observing from a "safe" distance.

[struggle4progress]

14. Thanks. That's interesting.

[DFW]

10. No, he was invited to a test in Nevada

This was 1957, when above-ground testing was a regular occurrence.

[nomorenomore08]

8. What year was this? I guess it was before they really knew the effects of radiation... n/t

[DFW]

9. It was 1957

I think after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they pretty much knew the effects of radiation.

[nomorenomore08]

12. True. But I meant the more long-term effects like cancer, which can take decades to develop.

A huge number of the people who worked on the film "The Conqueror" - most famously John Wayne - later died from various forms of cancer, at a higher rate (IIRC) than the general population.

[DFW]

13. And indeed, my dad had cancer twice.

The first time it was prostate cancer at age 70--nothing unusual. The second time it was pancreatic cancer at age 78, which did kill him, albeit 43 years after the A-test. However, we also lived in a house that was shown to have a a very high radon concentration--something none of us knew until my parents were both gone, and the house had to be tested for radon before being sold. So whether it was natural, the A-test or the radon, we'll never know. They built that house in 1955 and lived in it for 45 years (my mom for 47 years).

[atomicarchive]

17. Photos atomic tests

DFW, Tell please, you have still photos of your father of nuclear tests?

[DFW]

21. I don't understand the question

Please rephrase or ask in your native language.

(Not being snarky here, I just need to know what you are asking for)

[warrprayer]

19. just to thank you again

someone else thought your photos were "the bomb"!

[DFW]

22. There probably aren't many left who have actual privately shot photos of an atomic bomb

My father left us these, and since he was a journalist, he had quite an archive.

[B Calm]

15. Million times hotter than TNT. . .

Don't think I ever heard this song. . .

[atomicarchive]

16. Photos atomic tests

amazing images

[warrprayer]

18. actually thank DFW

he posted the real cool photos!!!

[gopiscrap]

20. welcome to DU