The GE Beetle, designed to carry out servicing tasks on the USAF’s proposed nuclear-powered bombers. Weighing 77 tons, it was based on the chassis of an M42 Duster. 1961

Carrier - E wo kaku Peter

This answers and raises questions

Cassette Futurism God Tier

Cassette Futurism god tier for real tho…

Who made these and how can I support them?

Awesome artist Simon Stålenhag made those.

There are actually a couple of tabletop RPGs based on Simon Stålenhag’s work, if you have that particular intersection of interests. Tales from the Loop is pure 1980s cassette futurism with kid protagonists and a largely family-friendly tone, while Things from the Flood speculatively advances the same setting into the 1990s and presents a world in which cassette futurism’s utopian promises failed to manifest and now everything is slowly falling apart; as you may have gathered, the latter’s tone is rather less kid-friendly!

Jim Burns

Inside Disneyland’s House of the Future 1957

• “4 Wheels to Survival: Your Car and Civil Defense.” United States Printing Office, 1955.
  
• “Six Steps to Survival.” United States Printing Office, 1955.
  
• “Safe because some American looked to the SKY!” Ground Observer Corps, U.S. Air Force, 1953.
  

Here’s the thing about civil defense during the early Cold War: The federal government didn’t necessarily believe that duck-and-cover or fallout shelters would actually save lives in the event of nuclear war. Rather, the promotion of civil defense measures was connected to the belief that the government needed to bring home to the public that the Cold War was a REAL war, like WWII was a real war. During WWII, things like war bonds and victory gardens were used to create a feeling of common investment in victory, and civil defense aimed at recapturing that spirit of popular participation. Thus, the Eisenhower administration encouraged the formation of civil defense volunteer groups and the like, but spent practically no money on, say, building bomb shelters. Eisenhower himself was convinced that nuclear war would mean annihilation of both sides, and placed his hopes on deterrence through a policy of massive retaliation.

For more:
Guy Oakes, The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Andrew D. Grossman, Neither Dead nor Red: Civil Defense and American Political Development during the Early Cold War (Routledge, 2001)
Kenneth D. Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (New York University Press, 2001)

Nuclear Landscapes, by Peter Goin

These photographs are the product of a rare opportunity to photograph within the nuclear lands. The artifacts and sites throughout these nuclear lands represent icons in the range of myth and political ritual surrounding the nuclear age. This project contains these main sites: Nevada’s Nuclear Test Site, the Trinity Site in New Mexico, the Hanford Nuclear Area in Washington, and recently, the Marshall Islands’ sites of Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. Johns Hopkins University Press published Nuclear Landscapes.

(Photo: The Troy II-C nuclear ramjet engine via the US Department of Energy)

from Neatorama (http://www.neatorama.com/2015/04/15/This-Nuclear-Powered-Rocket-Would-Have-Been-A-Flying-Chernobyl/):

In 1957, the United States began secretly developing a new type of aircraft. This was the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed to offer unlimited energy in numerous ways. Nuclear reactors provide enormous potential, which is why America put them into submarines and aircraft carriers at this time. It seemed only reasonable to apply this power to aircraft.

NUTEX Radium Condoms (ca. 1940s)

"Get next to NUTEX"

Now THAT’s Atompunk.