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Revolutionary Road Fallout Shelter Sign "Cameo"

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:48 GMT

Come view shots of the REVOLUTIONARY ROAD fallout shelter sign just posted in our gallery of Fallout Shelter Sign &os;cameos&os; from (mostly) major motion pictures. If you know of other &os;cameos&os; not included in our gallery, let us know and we will provide full credit for your find.

"K Blows Top" Khrushchev Book Released Tomorrow

Sun, 31 May 2009 14:52 GMT

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev&os;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&os;ll Bury You"). But this didn&os;t stop the General Secretary from chatting with Marilyn Monroe in Hollywood and farmers in Iowa (the un-photogenic Khrushchev appeared on the cover of Life magazine with an ear of corn and a dentally challenged grin). Journalist Peter Carlson has written a highly entertaining book about this peculiar episode from history...

THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN: A History of the End of the Cold War

Thu, 28 May 2009 12:21 GMT

When Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004 the video clip of him delivering his famous line �Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall� from seventeen years earlier started running on the 24-hour cable news channels almost immediately. The clip was repeated numerous times over the course of the next week until the 40th President of the United States was buried at sunset on June 11, 2004 at his library in Simi Valley, California. The debate over whether Reagan had won the Cold War had begun, of...

Help The Atomic Cafe Get Into the National Film Registry

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:21 GMT

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 &os;05. Today CONELRAD re-submitted its nomination citing the reasons listed below why THE ATOMIC CAFE deserves to make the 2009 cut. You can help support this nomination by submitting your own via their nomination page. Feel free to borrow liberally...

Daisy Ad Gets Dusted Off Yet Again

Fri, 22 May 2009 17:35 GMT

Today the Republican National Committee dusted off the 1964 Democratic National Committee LBJ political advertisement commonly known as "Daisy" for an attack on President Obama&os;s announced plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. It is the third or fourth time the Daisy spot has been repurposed over the years. "Daisy - A Guantanamo Interpretation" can be seen on YouTube, but be advised that it lacks the originality and flare of the original. It resembles the kind of quickie clip...

1961 Radio Interview with Rod Serling About Fallout Shelters

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:07 GMT

CONELRAD has posted two slideshows on YouTube featuring Rod Serling talking about fallout shelters in 1961. The interviewer is a pre-Col. Hogan Bob Crane who worked as a host at KNX radio in Los Angeles. Clip One: Serling talks about the Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter" Clip Two: Serling entertains Crane&os;s joking question about the ethics of allowing gorgeous movie stars into your shelter Enjoy!

Dick Cheney's Extreme Home Makeover

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:47 GMT

News broke over the weekend that gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden revealed the existence of his predecessor&os;s bunker when talking to reporters during last March&os;s Gridiron Dinner. Dick Cheney&os;s elaborate, taxpayer-funded panic room was allegedly built beneath the Vice-President&os;s residence at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. in 2002. Does it...

CONELRAD YOUTUBE SLIDESHOWS!

Thu, 14 May 2009 20:23 GMT

CONELRAD has started adding vintage civil defense radio spots, PSAs and weird audio augmented with photographic gems from the vast CONELRAD archives (otherwise known as a slideshow!) onto YouTube. So far, here are the offerings: Orson Welles June 30, 1946 Bikini Bomb Broadcast Fallout Shelter Sign Psychiatrist PSA (1965) The Chosen Survivors Radio...

New Book on the 1966 Lost Nuke

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:20 GMT

CONELRAD tries to keep its readers alerted to interesting new books and we heard from a trusted source that Barbara Moran&os;s new history of the U.S.&os;s biggest nuclear weapons disaster (in 1966) is a great read. The Day We Lost the H-Bomb comes out on April 28th and we&os;re looking forward to reading it ourselves. Below is some publishing flackery about the book that we lifted from the Random House site: In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of...

IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:44 GMT

As everyone knows, the Apollo 11 astronauts returned safely from their historic moon landing mission on July 24, 1969. But what if there had been a malfunction and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had been stranged on the lunar surface without hope of rescue? Nixon speechwriter William Safire drafted a speech to cover just such a catastrophic scenario:

To: H.R. Haldeman From: Bill Safire July 18, 1969 IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: Fate...