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Alessandra suggests this is possible because atomic and Space Age architecture and decor continue to feature in depictions of the future in popular culture, and, in turn, our imagination.
A Celebration of Atomic Age Architecture and Design ” on the swooping, space-age architectural style that Phoenix describes as the “jazz of midcentury architecture.” ...
Godzilla may get all the glory, but they're far from the only atomic-age movie monster that should be celebrated.
In atomic war, the advantage was hazardous. Sir James Chadwick, chief British adviser on the atomic bomb, said that any nation with the raw materials could make a bomb in five years without help ...
A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America's "atomic age," but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been ...
As a warning about how close we are to atomic holocaust, the Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been since its invention in 1947.
Across the U.S., both the curious and the zealous can find dozens of markers of the atomic age. Visits to such sites are gaining popularity.
International atomic control was a right and necessary objective; but it meant possession of the atom by the great, illimitably sovereign nations which were divided into two camps, each ...
Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in D.C. thrust the world into the atomic age.
The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well.
Donelson Library by HASTINGS Architecture is meant to evoke iconic 1960s modernism while making a contemporary statement for the burgeoning neighborhood.