This renewed talk of building nuclear weapons here in the US reminded me of an old report of photos of the sky glow from nuclear tests done in Nevada seen over Los Angeles. This one includes the following description:
Atomic explosion, the largest yet set off on the Nevada test range, was clearly visible in Los [...]

Posted April 28, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog. Tags: atomic, blast, bomb, los angeles, photo, sky glow, test. One Comment.

The first license plate to remember Nevada’s history as the host of the US’s nuclear testing grounds drew criticism for featuring a mushroom cloud (see the plate on the right, above). Now it appears folks are at it again, this time with a plate that depicts the site’s area and includes the classic illustration of [...]

Posted December 29, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: atomic, atomic testing, atomic testing museum, atomic tests, heritage, history, license plate, license plates, museum, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear test site, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, test site. Be the first one.

I convinced Sandee to join me at Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street, just beyond the Western Hotel Casino in what the Las Vegas Sun calls the “gritty underbelly of Las Vegas.”
Owner Joe Sobchick and his wife Stella started business in 1945 with a cafe called Virginia’s. They converted it into a bar in 1953, and [...]

Posted December 27, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Kitchen, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: atomic, atomic cocktail, atomic cocktails, atomic liquors, atomic liquors and cocktails, bar, cocktails, downtown, drinks, joe sobchick, las vegas, las vegas nv, liquor, liquor store, neon, sign, storefront, vegas. 2 Comments.

I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? The image comes from _roberta’s Flickr photostream, and she doesn’t seem too critical.
About 850 miles southeast today, the Trinity Site — where the world’s first atomic weapon was detonated in a test [...]

Posted October 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology, Travel. Tags: alamogordo, alamogordo new mexico, atomic, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, mercury, mercury nevada, nevada, new mexico, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear test, nuclear test site, nuclear testing, nuclear weapon, test site, trinity, white sands, white sands missile range, white sands new mexico, white sands test range. 4 Comments.

While looking for a picture for my memorial to the bomb, I found a number of related links. This blog is sometimes nothing more than an annotated bookmark list, and this is why….
The Bomb Project describes itself as:
a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for [...]

Posted August 11, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: atomic, atomic bomb, bomb, bomb test, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear test, nuclear tests, nuclear weapon. 2 Comments.

In what was to be the final act of World War II in the Pacific, the United States made the first and only use of nuclear power as a weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th (US dates), 1945.
George Weller of the Chicago Daily News snuck in to Nagasaki [...]

Posted August 7, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 60th anniversary, atomic, atomic bombing, bomb, bombing, bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki, bombing of japan, destruction, hiroshima, hiroshima and nagasaki, hiroshima bombing, japan, nagasaki, nagasaki bombing, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear power, nuke, pacific war, second world war, united states, war, world war II. 2 Comments.