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To commemorate the completion of our first 5 years, we launched the CONELRAD Alert News Wire to keep readers and supporters informed of all the
latest happenings; our commentary on the news, the latest scoop on recommended links, a log of content updates to CONELRAD.com, a selection of relevant press and media mentions of our activities, and last but not least, a Missing Persons Bureau where we solicit YOUR cooperation in filling in the blanks that obstruct the path of our Atomic Culture researches. In Fall 2005 we launched another 3 news feeds to capture our latest initiatives: Atomic Hygiene for the growing review database of Cold War short films; Read Alert for the long overdue book and printed ephemera reviews, and Atomic Platters for the ongoing research project on Cold War music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security. Please let us know what you think of the CONELRAD Alert News Wire and its sister feeds and be sure to grab an RSS feed on your way out!
CONELRAD Observes Tenth Anniversary Discreetly
Yep, it all started July 16, 1999. Before the CONELRAD staff digs into Admiral Blandy’s very thoughtful tenth anniversary atomic cake, we’d like to thank all the dedicated readers who have been with us from the beginning. It is hard to believe it has been ten years and harder still to believe we’re just getting ...
"K Blows Top" Khrushchev Book Released Tomorrow
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States was an obsessively covered media event that seems all the more bizarre in retrospect. Khrushchev was, after all, infamous for his bellicose pronouncements ("We'll Bury You"). But this didn't stop the General Secretary from chatting with Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood and farmers in Iowa (the ...
Help The Atomic Cafe Get Into the National Film Registry
Back in 2005 CONELRAD attempted a campaign to get one of our primary influences - THE ATOMIC CAFE - into the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. At the end of each year, the NFR announces its 25 inductees for preservation. We failed miserably in '05.
Today CONELRAD re-submitted its nomination citing the ...
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi: Revamped Author Site!
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of the wonderful The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War has recently updated her author website with lots of fun material. Check out the main portal here and make sure you spend some time on the Comedy of the Unspeakable page, too! ...
Life Cycle of the Survival Biscuit
Come visit the CONELRAD facebook page and catch the new photo gallery Civil Defense Biscuit Life Cycle. You'll be glad you did....
Revolutionary Road Fallout Shelter Sign "Cameo"
Come view shots of the REVOLUTIONARY ROAD fallout shelter sign just posted in our gallery of Fallout Shelter Sign 'cameos' from (mostly) major motion pictures.
If you know of other 'cameos' not included in our gallery, let us know and we will provide full credit for your find. ...
The CONELRAD Cafe Now Podcasting
CONELRAD is pleased to announce our new podcast service The CONELRAD Cafe is now available for downloading and playing on site via streaming MP3 audio and Flash player. Hosted by CONELRAD co-founder and editor Bill Geerhart oir debut podcast features the rare 1951 Federal Civil ...
Atomic Hygiene and Read Alert Blogs, RSS Feeds Launched
Following on the heels of CONELRAD's recent Atomic Platters CD/DVD release, we are proud to announce two new blogs, Atomic Hygiene: Cold War Shorts and Read Alert: Selected Books and Assorted Atomica, have been launched to share our ongoing research into Cold War culture from ...
CONELRAD Alert, Missing Persons Bureau are GO!
To celebrate our 5th anniversary CONELRAD has launched a weblog, CONELRAD Alert News Wire, to keep readers, subscribers, and media outlets informed of our multifaceted activities. These activities now include In The News, a regularly updated commentary on the latest events of Atomic import, and ...
CONELRAD's Bill Geerhart to be on STUDIO 360 radio show
CONELRAD co-founder and editor Bill Geerhart will appear as a guest in a segment on this weekend's edition of the Studio 360 radio program on National Public Radio.
Bill will be commenting on the strange genre of convervative folk music from the 1960s. Also appearing in the segment will be CONELRAD favorite Janet Greene (aka ...
Entertainment Weekly: Mosaic of Anxious Americana
Entertainment Weekly's Wook Kim awards an "A" (for Atom?) to the Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security CD box set (co-produced by CONELRAD and Bear Family Records) in its January 13, 2006 issue:
"It was the advent of the Cold War, only 50 short years ago, when the notion of ...
USA Today: Think Inside The Box Sets
USA Today's Edna Gundersen reviews Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security in the newspaper's 2005 Holiday Gift Guide for CD box sets (Think Inside the Box Sets 11/29/2005).
"For anyone interested in Cold War history, the dawn of nuclear anxiety or obscure pockets of post-WWII music, this box set is ...
Lostville: Help Find Beat Poetess Phillipa Fallon
Approximately mid-way through the Albert Zugsmith exploitation film masterpiece HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (1958), an attractive, quasi-bohemian woman strides on stage at a coffee house and belts out a beat poem that provides a delightfully nihilistic snapshot of the Cold War—including references to the space race and atomic evacuation. The fact that she happens to be ...
Calling All Copa Girls: Help find Miss Atomic Bomb
Her image has come to symbolize the bizarre love affair Las Vegas had with the Bomb in the 1950s. The famous photograph of the smiling model in a mushroom cloud bathing suit with her arms outstretched to the sky remains a powerful reminder of how sex appeal and atomic energy were once inseparable Cold War ...
The Civil Defense Survival Biscuit Lady
We will get the ball rolling with a personage whom we are so confident that we will never find we have chosen her picture as our official CONELRAD Missing Persons mascot. We have dubbed her "The Civil Defense ...
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