Atomic Pop

America in the 1950s dreamed of atomic cars like the proposed Ford Nucleon.

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There was a time in the mid-20th Century that America believed atomic power would cure virtually all ills. Our spacecraft… our superheroes… even our cars would be fueled by the splitting of the atom. And pop music wasn’t immune to the nation’s atomic fever. Learn more in this episode of NOTES.

[And for further exploration, be sure to check out the amazing site, conelrad.com – an encyclopedic resource for all things Cold War-related!]

 
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