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national atomic museum 2004-11-25 - 9:06 a.m. All photos � 2004 by Elaine Radford and Roger Williams We've probably all met those irrepressible old gentlemen in the casino who, when asked a polite "How are you?" like to exclaim, "I'm great. Any day that we wake up is a great day!" In the spirit of those old guys, let's all agree that any day that we don't wake up to nuclear annihilation is a great day, considering that, by all report, we were all supposed to be history by this time. So, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I thought I'd post a few pictures from our recent visit to the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The small device is a 76 pound Davy Crocket bomb -- not quite a suitcase model, but scary enough to meet the needs of generations of suspense fiction writers. By the way, I decided to play with some black/white photography in an effort to recover the spirit of the age, so you'll have to excuse me if you find b/w photography irritatingly arty. It actually cost more -- sometimes a lot more -- to publish color photography well into the 1990s, so black/white photography actually had a practical purpose in olden times. In any case, I wanted to play with giving some of my photos that 1950s and 1960s feel. The larger bombs below were accidentally dropped on Spain during a re-fueling mission in the 1960s. Oops. The conventional weapons went off in a third bomb involved in the same accident, while a fourth bomb was actually lost for several weeks. Here's a close-up of the banged-up tip of one of the two immediately recovered oopsies: Even though the nuclear warheads did not go off, the Spanish government was un-amused and blocked further re-fueling missions over their borders. Speaking of the 1960s, how would you like to visit the moon with this handy dandy little calculating device in your wallet? Younger readers may not recognize this instrument as the slide rule, a slight improvement over the abacus that they may have seen in their kindergarten days. They say that folks got pretty fast with it, but I never really got the hang of it, and I'll just stick to my pocket calculator and my palm pilot. Houston, beam me up! Here's another reassuring artifact -- the remains of a Minuteman MK5 which was blasted into space in order to test the heat shield on its return. I think this one actually passed the test. Yikes. Here's a graceful silver bomb, the B61, photographed mainly because I liked its classic lines: Oh, and if you were wondering about that alien spaceship that wrecked down in Roswell? No one told the folks at the National Atomic Museum that Roswell is trying to drum up some tourism down there based on the search for UFOs and little green men. According to the museum, the wreck of one of these guys in 1947 sparked the whole Roswell myth, since the devices were classified and couldn't be properly explained to the public: Although for years for whatever reason I believed it to be a Skyhook balloon, it was actually the ASH CAN sampling balloon which tested the atmosphere for radiation signatures, and the particular balloon that crashed was part of Project Mogul. There's a large museum area in Old Town Albuquerque, but you can easily locate the atomic museum because of the slim Redstone Rocket in front: I have vague memories of these guys from childhood as those rockets that seemed to blow up a lot, causing the Russians to get ahead of us for awhile in the space race, but obviously at least a few of them survived the excitement. And never let it be said that the museum lacks for a sense of humor: In addition to the Up 'N' Atom gift shop, you will find a large collection of atomic-themed comic books from the golden age of the 1950s and even a small but sinister collection of radiation-themed quack medical devices. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford