Them! (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
‘THIS CAR WILL GO THRU THE ATOMIC BLAST’
A scorched and disheveled male mannequin clad in dark business suit standing in the desert with a female mannequin in the background, 7000 ft. from the 44th nuclear test explosion, a day after the blast, indicating that humans could be burnt but still alive. Photograph by Loomis Dean. Nevada, USA, May 1955.
(Source: absoluteeuphoria)
I normally don’t go for cutesy things, but that bottom right image got me.
For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror.
—Susan Sontag
If we have to start over again with another Adam and Eve then I want them to be Americans and not Russians, and I want them on this continent and not in Europe
—Richard Russell, Virginia Senator
Source: M. Smith, ‘Architects of Armageddon: the Home Office Scientific Advisers’ branch and civil defence in Britain, 1945-68’, British Society for the History of Science, (2009), p. 177.
