We were all disappointed, no doubt, when we learned that the movie Oppenheimer didn't emphasize the role of the government-issue 1942 Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan that carried the plutonium core to ...
If you look at the tuning dials of most medium-wave (commonly known as AM) radios sold in the United States from 1953 through the middle 1960s, you’ll see triangle-in-a-circle symbols at 640 kHz and ...
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best from Adam O'Neal, Mary O'Grady, Joe Sternberg and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly You’ll occasionally see them at flea markets ...
CONELRAD was put into action around the time the first H-bomb was tested, and the idea was that all civilian broadcasting would be shut down when the first Soviet bombers were picked up on radar (so ...
Back in 1951, when the U.S. began to worry about Russian-atom armed bombers, somebody had a notion that the invaders might steer by the crisscrossing waves of U.S. commercial broadcasting stations.