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 ...

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.

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 ...