Oppenheimer and Groves as ducks from the Los Alamos History Museum. 😁
Jim Young
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Retired radio/newspaper reporter, Atomic City Kid, Collector of info and memorabilia on Manhattan Project and Nuclear. Photographer, fossil collector...
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL premiered in New York City at the Mayfair on this day in 1951.
WTF RFK, Jr. J. Robert Oppenheimer was absolutely a physicist! 🙄🤬
@conelrad6401240.bsky.social just started watching season 3 of Dark Winds and episode 1 includes a couple of fallout shelter sign cameos at the Border Patrol office. 👍
So how much if any truth is there to blocking use of nuclear weapons in Iran? @atomicanalyst.bsky.social @wellerstein.bsky.social @atherton.bsky.social 🤷
My vintage coin bank circa 1970. Says "Save now for your trip to the moon" 😉😮
Well I've never seen one of these before. #Nuclear #ChicagoPileOne ebay.us/m/PKRCxI @wellerstein.bsky.social @conelrad6401240.bsky.social @atomicanalyst.bsky.social @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Back when I knew Cas Walker the Knoxville TN grocery man who first put Dolly Parton on TV. m.soundcloud.com/user-4431504...
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
1952 postmarked Atomic City postcard from the recipient's "radioactive friends." 😁☢️ Sometimes the messages are the best parts!
I was going to post this French headline as an example of how the US is being seen from broad, but apparently they think of themselves as "predators," so it is not really editorializing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoOgles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
My youngest son writes so well. ❤️
TFP@thefakepsychic.bsky.social · 11mo agoI don't know if this will be the last list I write on Giant Bomb, it very well might be with the updates to the new site, and if it is, I wanted to go out with a bang. Here's some stuff about 15 games that have meant a lot to me over the years. www.giantbomb.com/profile/thef...
Motley the cat thinks she'd like to be a Christmas decoration.
Coming on January 6 to American Experience on PBS: “Bombshell: The Fight to Control the A-Bomb’s Story,” about how the US news media worked with the government to manipulate the official narrative about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and how a few journalists refused to play along.
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@CBS, ONCE KNOWN AS THE TIFFANY NETWORK, NOW THE TEMU NETWORK. 🙄😡
A lapel pin from the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima Japan. The Japanese translation is World Peace. From my personal collection.
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
On a Hallowed hill in Tennessee Like Beacon shining bright The stately walls of old UT Rise glorious to the sight. So here's to you old Tennessee, Our Alma Mater true We pledge in love and harmony Our loyalty to you. University of Tennessee Alma Mater
Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
Copy of the Atomic Pioneer medal Nixon gave to Groves, Conant and V. Bush in 1975. Set in acrylic designed by Charles Caldwell/ORNL. I've never seen one and info was hard to find. Anyone know what the copies were for? @wellerstein.bsky.social @conelrad6401240.bsky.social @atomicanalyst.bsky.social
A paperweight with what appears to be a copy of the Atomic Pioneer medal presented in 1975 and designed by Charles Caldwell of ORNL.
My trinitite is 80 years old today. ☢️ The first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico-code named Trinity.
Issued in 1945 this Society of Medalists medal appears to be needed 80 years on.
