Atomic kitchen: Duck, cover!
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by steve
Bomb Shelters, Inc. business card, 1959
Everything you’d ever need to know about ‘The Golden Age of Homeland Security’ can be found at the Conelrad website.
The site is named for the Civil Defense emergency network – ‘CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation’ which was set up to broadcast on AM 640 and 1240 in the event of an atomic attack.
Illustration from Walt Disney’s Our Friend the Atom children’s book, 1956
From TIME, July 26, 1963
