Mushroom Cloud (((HearingVoices))) Radio Special

Tales from the Atomic Age
Hosted by Larry Massett

"Enola Alone"- Antenna Theatre talks to bombing pilots and survivors.
"Atomic Age"- two decades of WMD in popular songs & speeches.
"Downwinder Diaries"- Life near 1950s nuclear test sites.
"Wild Dreams of a New Beginning"- from poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
"What Are You Afraid Of?"- Scott Carrier asks Americans.
"Atomic Platters"- cold war cuts from Conelrad.

Mushroom Cloud- Part 1 (32:00 ) featuring:

"Enola Alone" by Antenna Theater. The air war from the perspecitive of World War II bomber pilots, Japanese and English bombing survivors, and Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay mission over Hiroshima.

"Atomic Age" by (((HearingVoices))). An audio document in political speeches and popular songs of our changing attitudes towards weapons of mass destruction; starting with the bombing of Hiroshima, August 6 1945.

"Downwinder Diaries" by Claes Andreasson. Personal accounts of people downwind from the Nevada and Utah nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s, when the big red clouds drifted across the desert and into their towns.

solid

liquid

gas

synth

Element Discoverer

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H

Atomic Weight Melt/Boil(C°)

2
He

3
Li

4
Be

Shell Isotopes

5
B

6
C

7
N

8
O

9
F

10
Ne

11
Na

12
Mg

Orbital Specific Gravity

13
Al

14
Si

15
P

16
S

17
Cl

18
Ar

19
K

20
Ca

21
Sc

22
Ti

23
V

24
Cr

25
Mn

26
Fe

27
Co

28
Ni

29
Cu

30
Zn

31
Ga

32
Ge

33
As

34
Se

35
Br

36
Kr

37
Rb

38
Sr

39
Y

40
Zr

41
Nb

42
Mo

43
Tc

44
Ru

45
Rh

46
Pd

47
Ag

48
Cd

49
In

50
Sn

51
Sb

52
Te

53
I

54
Xe

55
Cs

56
Ba

57
La

72
Hf

73
Ta

74
W

75
Re

76
Os

77
Ir

78
Pt

79
Au

80
Hg

81
Tl

82
Pb

83
Bi

84
Po

85
At

86
Rn

87
Fr

88
Ra

89
Ac

104
Rh

105
Db

106
Sg

107
Bh

108
Hs

109
Mt

110
Uun

111
Uuu

112
Uub

113
Uut

114
Uuq

lanthanons

58
Ce

59
Pr

60
Nd

61
Pm

62
Sm

63
Eu

64
Gd

65
Tb

66
Dy

67
Ho

68
Er

69
Tm

70
Yb

71
Lu

actinons

90
Th

91
Pa

92
U

93
Np

94
Pu

95
Am

96
Cm

97
Bk

98
Cf

99
Es

100
Fm

101
Md

102
No

103
Lr

Mushroom Cloud- Part 2 (26:00 ) featuring:

"Wild Dreams of a New Beginning" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A Pacific tidal wave a mile high sweeps in. Los Angeles breathes its last gas> A poem produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld (Bay Area Radio Drama), with sound design by Jim McKee (Earwax), and original music by Wieslaw Pogorzelski.

"What Are You Afraid Of?" by Scott Carrier. Americans across the country answer the question: What do you fear?

"Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security" compiled by CONELRAD.com Selections for the CD/DVD set including Slim Galliard's "Atomic Cocktail" (1945), versions of "Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb" by Lowell Blanchard & The Valley Trio (1949) and by The Pilgrim Travelers. "Old Man Atom" by The Sons of the Pioneers (1951), and 1950-60s Civil Defense public service announcements.

"Page One" by Lemon Jelly. The story of the Big Bang, with a beat.