The Atomic Age in the United States caused not only a plethora of scientific inventions, expansions, and new knowledge - it also brought about new ideas, new styles, and new ways to do old things.
Check out this clock from the 1950's - typical of the Atomic Age style that was prevalent in those years.Or who could forget those glasses - who ever thought that THIS was a good idea??!!
How about some good old Atomic movie monsters?!
Godzilla has to be the all--time favorite!!
Monsters Vs Aliens is the latest weird-circumstances movie that mutates someone because of some atomic-looking goo gets on someone. (Isn't that how all the monsters get mutated?!)
Books! HG Wells' book "The Last War" is all about a WWIII that is totally atomic. Hmmmm - glad we have had better sense than that!
Movies! I think the all-time classic movie about the Atomic Age is Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - made even stranger through Peter Sellers' wild & weird characters! I was particularly interested to discover that this movie is from a book by the same name - Perhaps it would be interesting reading!
... and of course, there is always the instructions for what to do in case of a nuclear attack! Hide under your school desk - that will keep you safe!
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