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 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.

Boing Boing has an exclusive profile of neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen by Charles Platt. All the reports so far are that it’s a 10,000 word “must read.”
The article, Profits of Fear, is available in PDF, plain text, and Palm doc versions at Boing Boing.
Thanks to David Rothman for the heads up. Extra: [...]

Posted August 17, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: boing boing, boingboing, bomb, charles platt, fear, inventor, moral weapon, neutron, neutron bomb, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, nuke, sam cohen, samuel cohen, samuel t cohen, weapon, weapon designer. One Comment.

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.

George Weller won a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and was named a Neimann Fellow during his fifty-some-odd year career during which he covered much of Europe and Asia for the New York Times and Chicago Daily News. Weller died in 2002 at age 95, leaving behind a body of work that tells much of [...]

Posted June 17, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: censorship, chicago daily news, george weller, governement censors, hiroshima and nagasaki, information campaign, nagasaki, new york times, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear device, nuclear weapon, radiation, radiation poisoning, radiation sickness. 2 Comments.