#atomic

[thingsfromthedirt]

the Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring, distributed by Kix cereal from 1947-1950 for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. it was a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210. you would take it into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206

[noosphe-re]

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation (Margot Bennett)

[vintage-tigre]

Atomic - Blondie, 1980

[nemfrog]

"Radioactivity made visible." Our wonder world : a library of knowledge in ten volumes. 1923.

Internet Archive

[stone-cold-groove]

Cold war era Civil Defense public awareness/propaganda poster - 1951.

[dpscantina]

Atomic Without You

[humanoidhistory]

Computer room at the Nevada Test Site.

(National Archives)