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Popularly- and Commonly-Named Atomic and Nuclear Stuff

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Below are 66 examples of Cold War era stuff and consumer bits relating to atomic/nuclear and big-boom weapons.  All are found in my pinterest page, here, which also houses about 4,000 odd/interesting images that have been collected by Dr. Odd of the Unbelievablorium.  

 

Superman in WWII

 

Just 14 years before Slim Pickens in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Kirk Alyn (as Superman) took a somewhat less fatal missile ride in Columbia's "Atom Man vs. Superman," (Chapters 12-15). [pr]

 

Canadian Cold War Poster: "Bea Alerte Says, 'Disaster May Never Occur Here...'"

 

"ATO McBOMB" ATOMIC BOMB-INSPIRED MYSTERY CHARACTER BUTTON. ~1940s

 

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