August 9th, 2012
elliottholt
Zoom classicpenguin: Above, a positively radiant Miss Atomic Bomb poses with U.S. army personnel outside the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1955. Just a few miles away, testing began to measure how well homes, household items, and mannequins in everyday clothes could withstand atomic blasts. This and more history, meaning, and some not-so-fun facts are collected in Wayne Biddle’s Field Guide to Radiation, which is fantastic and just on sale this month.  Photo Credit: UNLV Libraries, Special Collections

classicpenguin:

Above, a positively radiant Miss Atomic Bomb poses with U.S. army personnel outside the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1955. Just a few miles away, testing began to measure how well homes, household items, and mannequins in everyday clothes could withstand atomic blasts.

This and more history, meaning, and some not-so-fun facts are collected in Wayne Biddle’s Field Guide to Radiation, which is fantastic and just on sale this month. 

Photo Credit: UNLV Libraries, Special Collections

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    The first miss a-bomb I believe
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I'm a fiction writer. My first novel YOU ARE ONE OF THEM will be published by The Penguin Press on May 30, 2013. My short stories have been published in The Pushcart Prize XXXV (2011 anthology) and other places. I grew up in Washington, D.C., and have lived in many cities (Moscow, London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and New York). http://elliottholt.com/

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