Nuke 'em Post Cards

Here are a few postcards from visitors centers promoting nuclear power. Don't you love the fashions? This is a scene from the Mu...

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi obtained the first chain reaction controlled fission  in Chicago Pile-1 underneath Stagg Field in Chicag...

This card depicts the "Atomium", the symbol of Expo 58 , the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels, the first such fair since Wor...

Here are a couple matchbooks put out by Consumers Power Company to promote their two nuclear plants: the early Big Rock Point plant, a...

A popular anti-nuke symbol became a picture of a smiling sun with a simple message - Nuclear Power? No thanks! The symbol supposedly origin...

Arco, Idaho, takes credit as being the first city lit by nuclear generated electricity. Near the town was the site of the National Reactor ...

I'm featuring two cards today from La Crosse, Wisconsin, home of one of the early AEC turnkey projects and the home of the world's ...