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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!
After the Apocalypse: Rare Atomic Classics on TCM
Turner Classic Movies cable network screens rarely seen Atomic Classics FIVE and THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL is part of its After The Apocalypse program tonight May 9.
Arch Obler's FIVE (1951), the first overtly "atomic" end-of-the world film, is a quietly chilling depiction of the recent ...
What? No Tea After World War III?!
Call it the Great Earl Grey Panic of 1954: Recently declassified documents provide evidence that British contingency planners were concerned that tea supplies would be rapidly exhausted in the event of an atomic attack on the United Kingdom. Read the brief news article here.
If any of the fine blokes at London's National Archives would ...
Father Knows Red: 24 Hours in Tyrantland on DVD!
On Tuesday, the fine folks at Shout Factory are releasing the first season of the classic Fifties sitcom "Father Knows Best" on DVD. The set features a number of extras, but none more anticipated by CONELRAD readers than the 1959 film that the cast made for the U.S. Treasury Department entitled "Twenty-Four Hours in Tyrantland." ...
NRC: Emergency Planning for Kids
The friendly cartoon mascot doesn't have a name, which seems like poor planning, but this Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) site for students (and teachers) does offer basic information about nuclear energy, reactors, emergency planning, decommissioning, and radioactive waste. The NRC's Students Corner, last revised in July 2003, is meant to educate and reassure students about nuclear energy, its production and disposal, and the measures in place to protect kids and their families (aka public health and safety) in the ...Nuclear Pickle: Atomic Specialty Foods Flash Rad Badge
Location, location, location - not just true for real estate, but for food products too if you happen to be located in the radiation-rich south eastern Washington's Tri-Cities area (Richland, Pasco and Kennewick - home to the Department of Energy's 586 square mile Hanford nuclear site which dates back to the Manhattan Project). Richland's Atomic Speciality Foods ("Fiery Foods with a Healthy Flare!"), a 'mom and pop' outfit started in 1998 smartly embraces the area's cultural legacy (even if certain antiwar students oppose the Richland ...
The Bomb Project - Net Resources for Artists
The Bomb Project is painter and web archivist Joy Garner's comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation intended for artists and activists in search of raw material. The basic and effective presentation of a superlist of links evokes a retro aesthetic (remember when "web page" and "web site" was synomous?) and does a great job making available original sources including news feeds, image archives, historical documents, industrial and NGO groups, government laboratories, special interest blogs, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vanity Fair: Apocalyptic Beat - Music That Made Us Think
Nick Tosches reviewed ATOMIC PLATTERS: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security in the December issue of Vanity Fair.
"The War on Terror is no fun. It has brought us nothing but fear and repression. The Cold War was different. It brought fear of another kind: flamboyant paranoia. Armageddon seemed inevitable, but there ...
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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