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- It Seems Like Yesterday - Winter 99: The Atomic Age - A history of the Atomic Age of the 1950s. Includes links to a few feature articles from the 1950s that let the reader get an idea of the social impact of atomic weapons on American society.
- Living in an Atomic Age - Experiences and references about life during the Atomic Age in Nebraska, the begining of Strategic Air Command, civil defense and other topics with links.
- CNN Cold War - The Atomic Age: From fission to fallout - A brief history of the beginning of the Atomic Age including photographs, video clips and links. Part of a series on the Cold War.
- Nuclear Age Timeline - Nuclear Age Timeline, The timeline traces the nuclear age from the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb through the cold war to its thaw and the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex.
- CONELRAD - Atomic culture past and present. A clearinghouse of atomic links, articles, photos, and memorabilia of the atomic age.
- Living Under a Mushroom Cloud: Fear and Hope in the Atomic Age - Virtual version of an museum exhibit. Addresses the ambivalence of the public toward atomic power and weapons in the period between 1945 and 1965. Articles, photographs.
- The Bureau of Atomic Tourism - The Bureau of Atomic Tourism promotes tourist locations that have either been the site of atomic explosions, display exhibits on the development of atomic devices, or contain atomic weapons delivery systems. Includes links to related materials.
- Trinity and Beyond - (the Atomic Bomb Movie)Website devoted to documentary films dealing with atomic history and obscure material on atomic testing. Contains many unique and rare QuickTime movies and jpeg photos regarding atomic testing and nuclear detonations.
- Atomic Heritage Foundation - A non-profit dedicated to preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project and Atomic Age. Information about historic properties, museum exhibits, publications, and documentary films.
- The Atomic Age: A Brief Overview - An overview of the Manhattan Project, the use of the bomb, the development of the Cold War and the physics of nuclear weapons. Includes photographs and a bibliography.
Wikipedia Articles
- Atomic Age - The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is a phrase typically used to delineate the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear bomb.
- Atomic Age (comics) - Atomic Age is a 5 issues comic book limited series created in 1990 by Frank Lovece (writer), Mike Okamoto (penciller) and Al Williamson (inker), and published by Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.
- Googie architecture - Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, is a subdivision of expressionist, or futurist architecture influenced by car culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age, originating from southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s. With upswept roofs and, often, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon, it decorated many a motel, coffee house and bowling alley in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Nyoko-dō Hermitage - is the former residence of Dr Takashi Nagai, the famous radiologist from Nagasaki. After his exposure to the atomic bomb explosion, he made great efforts for the welfare of the atomic bomb survivors until his death at the age of 43 (on May 1) in 1951.
- Nuclear weapons in popular culture - Since their dramatic public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age."