Some good stuff from our friends at Government Attic. www.governmentattic.org/NORAD-NORTHC...

Not included on the mission card is "To prepare for the rare occurrence when a lunatic threatens to shoot his gun at a nuclear weapon."

THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "The Shelter" was broadcast for the first time on this day on CBS in 1961. Director Lamont Johnson was not 100%. From Marc Zicree's essential "The Twilight Zone Companion."

"If you weren't willing to push the button, you wouldn't stay in the program." - Tommy Metcalf, former nuclear sub tech and convicted killer. www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

The only document the Military Records Center in St. Louis has on Leander V. Cunningham [1917-1991] is a final pay voucher from his first hitch in the service (Army, WW 2 period). He was a M/Sgt in the USAF at the time of the 1958 incident that made headlines.

Hans! CNN's chaotic coverage of Trump's chaotic United Nations speech received the John Oliver treatment last night.

"Gentlemen, we have a problem." www.motherjones.com/politics/199... Great @kensilverstein1.bsky.social piece from '98.

I hired a professional military records specialist who tells me that aside from a final pay document from Cunningham's first hitch in the service (Army) during WW 2, he has no record whatsoever at the Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Onward to a USAF records FOIA.

In 1982, UK military planners had added a nuclear option for the Falklands war “for completeness.” x.com/pinstripedli...

"Relax, Bob. This is the 1970s."

"TRICKS OF THE TRADE is so limp it makes the cold war seem slightly less exciting than BOWLING FOR DOLLARS." - Frank Rich on the Broadway "CIA melodrama" starring George C. Scott. NYT, 11/7/80.

Jamie Rose, Danny Aiello, and a Fallout Shelter Sign. LADY BLUE (ABC) pilot movie shot on location in Chicago. 4/15/85.

Paul Thomas Anderson is a fan. Tonight on TCM.

Might be a good time to offer this for streaming somewhere. Anywhere. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Why isn't this streaming anywhere?

Via @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

The New Yorker on @gregmitch.bsky.social and THE ATOMIC BOWL.

1/2. Found at the Library of Congress: Gene Roddenberry's first of two scripts for I LED 3 LIVES (under the pseudonym Robert Wesley). This one was eventually titled "Radioactive" and aired in 1956. He deeply regretted contributing to the series. youtu.be/U0DW_qpilRQ?...

Found at the Nixon Library. A note to Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) director George Lincoln re: Nixon's COG-tastic Executive Order 11490.

45 years ago today, Ronald Neame's spy comedy HOPSCOTCH opened. Starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson with Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom.

Would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore [1930-2025] has a fleeting connection to the Greenbrier resort. Wonder if the Bunker was notified...

Somehow I was expecting a slightly bigger font...

Christmas came early.

"Smiles mirthlessly." Screenwriting gold found in an I LED 3 LIVES folder at the Library of Congress. Pretty much what they shot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsiG...

The 1951 film adaptation of Matt Cvetic's story I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI essentially blocked a motion picture version of Herb Philbrick's I LED 3 LIVES. Document I found at the Library of Congress.

On this day in '64, the TIME nuclear issue.

"Too Bostony." I LED 3 LIVES author Herbert A. Philbrick workshopping book titles. Document I found at the Library of Congress. cc: @rickperlstein.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth Sparks Worry With 'Urgent' Meeting of Generals share.google/6pN5rPC7eJu0...

Hollywood Reporter, September 24, 1981. Fans are never wrong, so if they stamp their feet and say that if Spock is killed in the second Star Trek movie it will cost $28M in movie attendance and re-viewership, videotape sales and rentals, and cable and network TV sales, Paramount had better listen!

Bob Newhart was bugged by I LED 3 LIVES... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s75...

Safe to say A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE will have a lot of Football action... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...

"Corey Lewandowski is running DHS. Kristi Noem is just the face of it." - From Ben Terris's paywalled New York magazine cover story. New York, 9/22/25.

The Dallas ICE shooter suspect's car. Weird.

On this day 80 years ago...

On this day a half-century ago, Robert Redford (R.I.P.) in Sydney Pollack's THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR.

Fallout Shelter Sign cameo spotted in the 2013 documentary THE DOG. 101 Wooster St., NYC. next to the Gay Activist Alliance headquarters (aka The Fire House) at 99 Wooster. 1971.

“She is probably the administration’s best spokeswoman,” he told me. “The only thing that bothers me is that her name is not mentioned as a potential 2028 Republican Party leader. She’s underestimated.” - The always wrong Frank Luntz.

Wonder if there's a F-pad at Mount Weather, too.

BEHIND THE CAMERA: CHARLIE'S ANGELS (NBC, 2004) features an awkward conversation between the actor playing Bigfoot and Lee Majors (Ben Browder). tubitv.com/movies/66074...

1/2. Obscure Nixon administration officials for a thousand... Cattle-prod enthusiast and Rose Mary Woods escort, Fred J. Russell [1916-2007].

Looks like the military aide carrying the president's Nuclear Football will be taking the stairs... 9/23/25. United Nations.

"Just Plain Dick." On this day in 1952, Sen. Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers (er, "fund" speech) from the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Variety reviewed it.

1962 / 1991.

Bochner's gotta Bochner.

Sep 23rd 1975 - After learning he was being fired due to poor ratings, newscaster Howard Beale announced during a live broadcast, that he will take his own life on next week's live broadcast. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

People who watch @lastweektonight.com are...

This bank robbery was written for Al Pacino... DOG DAY AFTERNOON, released a half-century ago this week.

Fallout Shelter Sign cameo from the opening of Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON released a half-century ago this week.