What You Need to Know: During the Atomic Age, the U.S. embarked on the ambitious Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP ... GE ...

Why Atomic Age Design Still Looks Futuristic 75 Years Later How a postwar aesthetic born out of destruction set the stage for Space Age By Elizabeth Yuko January 31, 2023 ...

During the 1950s, the advent of the atomic age forced the U.S. Navy to look at a number of alternate basing schemes for naval aviation. One such scheme was AN-1, an enormous nuclear-powered ...

The Soviets never stopped working on the idea of a nuclear airplane, and during the '60s, they flew an honest- to-goodness atomic powered airplane—forty or so times throughout the decade.

The Atomic Age In the 1950s the American public accepted above-ground nuclear bomb blasts just 65 miles from an American city as part of the ongoing Cold War effort.

Dropping the atomic bomb was a watershed moment in human history. Not only did it change warfare, but it ushered in the atomic age, one where mankind became capable of obliterating itself.

A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that survived a Japanese torpedo strike and was a guinea pig for two atomic bomb blasts looks remarkably intact on ocean floor.

For instance, in just a five-year span, Ford came out with not one, but two nuclear-powered concept cars. Nuclear! Ford's first foray into atomic-powered cars was the cab-forward Ford Nucleon.

Fifty years ago - on July 16, 1969 - the Apollo 11 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center. The launch and the moon landing a few days later marked the highpoint of the Space Age.