Will, Cliff (both above), and I recorded this song in one take in late 1999. Though, calling it a “take” is overstating it. We were beyond silly drunk and lacked any talent for the task, but we had a mic in front of us, a guitar, and a willingness to open our mouths and let [...]

Posted April 27, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food, Technology. Tags: alcohol induced poetry, audio, bad, betrunkmusik, drunk, drunkmusic, embarrassing, free mp3s, microwave song, more equipment than talent, mp3, music, nuclear, nuke, nukerator, silly, social commentary, song. Be the first one.

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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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.

Via Defense Tech: Slate did a series last week titled A Nuclear Family Vacation that visited the Nevada Test Site; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs; and Trinity. Extra: a slideshow accompanies the text and the authors interviewed on NPR’s Day to Day.
Related: previous nuclear stories at MaisonBisson.

tags: albuquerque, defensetech, lawrence livermore, los [...]

Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy, Travel. Tags: albuquerque, defensetech, lawrence livermore, los alamos, national lab, national labs, nevada test site, nuclear, nuclear family, sandia. Be the first one.

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 Bisson
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.

The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized, though). I still don’t have a cable to connect the ancient Magellan GPS I used to a computer, so I manually entered [...]

Posted May 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology, Travel. Tags: gps, las vegas, map, mercury, nevada, nuclear. 2 Comments.