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WHEN THE WORLD ENDED: FILMS IN THE ATOMIC AGE

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1. “Death Rays Deferred”: TIME Magazine, Monday, Dec 02, 1946. [BACK]

2. And still are, TIME Magazine reported earlier this year that a band of scientists and war-fighters concluded the military isn’t powerful enough for the new century and are in development of a weapon that is “not quite a “death ray” but it’s the closest existing technology can get to that fantasy weapon.” (“Will the US Develop a Death Ray?”, Mark Thompson. Thursday, August 21, 2008). [BACK]

3. Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster,” in Against Interpretation, (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1967). [BACK]

4. “What Is Communism?” Educational Film. A Jerry Fairbanks Production. Presented by The National Education Program, Searcy, Arkansas. 1963. [BACK]

5. Bill Geerhart & Ken Sitz, “Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security” (Hambergen, Germany: Bear Family Records, 2005). P. 8. [BACK]

6. Interview with Lewis Frumkes, conducted by the author, November 16, 2008. [BACK]

7. “Defense Proposed As School Subject; Huebner Tells Educators Its Importance Will Grow as Atomic Threat Rises”: New York Times, April 12, 1954. [BACK]

8. Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). P. 134. [BACK]

9. Bill Geerhart & Ken Sitz, “Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security” (Hambergen, Germany: Bear Family Records, 2005). P. 3. [BACK]

10. Mark Thomas McGee, FAST AND FURIOUS: The Story of American International Pictures (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. 1984.) P. 38 [BACK]

11. Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster,” in Against Interpretation, (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1967). [BACK]

12. Interview with Roy Frumkes, conducted by the author, November 30, 2008. [BACK]

13. R.W.N, “’Kronos’ Blows a Fuse at the Palace”: New York Times, May 11, 1957. P. 24. [BACK]

14. Alain Silver & James Ursini, Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring (Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2006). P. 51. [BACK]

15. “Steps to Survive an Atom Bomb Given; Civil Defense Leaflet Lists 6 Instructions for Families in Case of an Attack”: New York Times, July 17, 1955. P. 15. [BACK]

16. Bill Geerhart & Ken Sitz, “Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From the Golden Age of Homeland Security” (Hambergen, Germany: Bear Family Records, 2005). P. 8. [BACK]

17. Mark Thomas McGee, FAST AND FURIOUS: The Story of American International Pictures (North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. 1984.) P. 26 [BACK]

18. “A Doctor Tries to Lick Radiation”: LIFE Magazine, February 8, 1963. P. 54. [BACK]

19. Ken Pearlman, “Miss Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Picnic”, January 1, 2001: http://www.gamemasteronline.com/Archive/FeltTop/MissAtomicBombandtheNuclearPicnic.shtml [BACK]

20. “Atomic ABC’s”: TIME Magazine, August 21, 1950. [BACK]

21. Bernard Stengren, “Major Cities Lag in Planning Defense Against Bomb Attack; Survey Finds Some Totally Unready, Public Apathetic”: New York Times, June 12, 1955. P. 76. [BACK]

22. Henry Lee, “This Age of Fear”: American Mercury, May 1957. P. 52-53. [BACK]

Check out the CONELRAD website for further reading on Civil Defense and the Cold War. Including an excellent piece about the LBJ ‘Daisy’ ad.

“Atomic Platters”, also from CONELRAD, is a 5-CD set (plus one DVD and a book) featuring an outstanding selection of Cold War music. It is highly recommended.

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