A nondescript compound in Cooperstown, N.D., houses a decommissioned ballistic missile launch site
Switzerland wants to update its network of ageing nuclear shelters, which are increasingly seen as an asset.
Check out this abandoned Doomtown, Nevada that somehow survived the Atomic Era of the tumultuous Cold War years.
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Photograph by Robert Lyon, courtesy of Daniel FrieseAt the back of what looks like an enclosed porch of an unpretentious ranch house near Wall, South Dakota, a steel-runged ladder leads down a 30-foot concrete access shaft. At the bottom, a massive, eight-ton steel-and-concrete door is painted the red, white and blue image of a Domino’s Pizza box, with a slightly altered phrasing of the chain’s familiar promise: “World-wide Delivery in 30 Minutes or Less; Or Your Next One is Free.” But in this case the “Next One” is a Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). For almost three decades, the house was the “Delta One” Launch Control Facility (LCF) for ten Minuteman missiles armed with nuclear warheads. The massive blast door was designed to ensure that the underground launch control center survived a nuclear attack.Welcome to the mordant, jingoistic and occasionally crude — but rarely before seen world — of “blast-door art.”Play Slideshow >>
http:// During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed a series of "Atomgrads" or nuclear cities. Nearly all of these cities were newly planned and designed to provide housing and community services for the future scientists and their families that would live there. Many, if not most, were built by Gulag prisoners. These cities…
http:// Part 2 of this series on Soviet-era "Atomgrads" focuses on those that were developed to build, service, and support nuclear power plants in the Soviet Union. Of the 12 cities listed and mapped, all but one remain active communities today. The City of Pripyat, Ukraine, was completely abandoned in 1986 due to the Chernobyl…
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Below are 66 examples of Cold War era stuff and consumer bits relating to atomic/nuclear and big-boom weapons. All are found in my pinterest page, here, which also houses about 4,000 odd/interesting images that...
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