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Tag Archives: atomic
Roadside Americana: Atomic age stops, sights, and oddities
This blogpost is a little adventure through the sights and sounds of America’s roadside culture to depict how the Atomic Age has impacted it since 1945. A whole variety of businesses have adopted the term “atomic” or some variation thereof … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, archaeology, architecture, art, atomic age, branding, brewpubs, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Communications, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, Maps, marketing, military, place names, placemaking, Science, Science fiction, signs, technology, theaters, third places, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged advertising, atomic, atomic age, Atomic City, branding, infrastructure, marketing, military, motels, neon, restaurants, roadside Americana, services, shops, signs, trademark, weapons
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Nuclear nomenclature that’s now commonplace in English
As I have been researching a variety of Atomic Age topics for this blog, it became apparent that there are common terms we now use that arose from that time period. As a child growing up in a nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in books, civics, civility, Communications, culture, futurism, history, Language, literature
Tagged atomic, Cold War, communications, Critical Mass, fallout, going nuclear, half-life, language, meltdown, mushroom cloud, nomenclature, nuclear, nuclear family, nuclear option, nuke, nuke 'em, nuked, terms
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Soviet-era “Atomgrads,” part 1 – Nuclear Weapon Cities
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, atomic age, cities, culture, economic development, energy, environment, Europe, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, Maps, military, place names, placemaking, planning, pollution, Russia, Science, Statistics, technology, urban planning
Tagged Atomgrads, atomic, closed cities, Cold War, military, nuclear, Russia, Soviet, Soviet Union, USSR, weapons
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Up to 690,000 American’s died from our own nuke tests!
Yes, you read the post title correctly. According to a 2017 study by researchers from the University of Arizona, between 340,000 and 690,000 Americans are estimated to have died from fallout and radiation-linked diseases generated by the 100 atmospheric atomic … Continue reading →