Anita Gillette not included...

"A better choice would have been Laika." - Georgia Clarke, Redondo Beach, California.

FREE THE ATOM. On this day in 1950: A full page advertisement in the New York Times for David E. Lilienthal's COLLIER's cover story.

F. Murray Abraham in the title shot of THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE (with Jack Lemmon). 1975.

David Brooks working in a humblebrag about vacationing in Belize. From the June 5, 2026 PBS NewsHour.

Via Kimmel...

Two MAGA loons still going at it.

"First-Tier." Doing some research on the US Air Force's Human Reliability Program and learned that since my request is under 700 pages, it will only take 39 months to process.

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

There is a lot of stillness in the Robert Benton film STILL OF THE NIGHT (1982).

PUCK's @abbyliv.bsky.social saying "nuclear bomb" on CNN just now.

"He's a tough Canadian cop." RUSSIAN ROULETTE, an obscure Cold War film from 1975 starring George Segal.

This is very entertaining...

Of possible interest to @howardmortman.bsky.social and others... youtu.be/y56A4ckUB7E?...

Where's the Brockelman reboot, NBC?

About as Noir as it gets... ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948). Streaming on HBO MAX. #FilmNoir

27 years and a lot of civil defense crap in my garage.

The Catholic Legion of Decency may have hated the Bette Davis book censorship drama STORM CENTER, but the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social loved it. Watch it here: youtu.be/O53zd-q5Hw8?...

R.I.P. prolific character actor James Handy [1945-2026]. Tragically murdered by his girlfriend's son. Here he is as Kevin Doneghy (with an out of focus Fallout Shelter Sign). From the 1982 legal drama classic, "The Verdict."

The Catholic Legion of Decency hated STORM CENTER (1956) so much, they came up with a separate classification for it (between morally objectionable and condemned). Streaming for free on YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O53z...

Havana, Cuba.

"I think the whole thing was a tongue-in-cheek job, Bill Libby talking about 'body snatching.'" Because Willard Libby was known for his sense of humor...

Weird History: The Los Alamos National Laboratory still* has Karen Silkwood's body parts. *As of the 1999 publication of Eileen Welsome's book THE PLUTONIUM FILES.

I came here expecting charts, maps, and photographs of Sandia Base. I found none of those things in this box. Weird.

Conservative media gadfly Reed Irvine [1922-2004] was an assistant censor (among other duties) during World War II.

June 1987.

Shocking until you remember that professional Twitter troll Ric Grenell was acting DNI for a couple of months in 2020.

1976. Early Reed Irvine. He was still working as an economist at the Federal Reserve while publishing media screeds and feuding with columnist Jack Anderson.

"Maybe one thing the Pentagon needs, somewhere in the chain of command, is a computer that can scream." - Peace activist and Walter Reed speech pathologist Rex V. Naylor [1920-2012] reacting to William Prochnau's 1982 nuke series in the Washington Post. With bonus T.K. Jones shout-out.

Prior to his novel about a nuclear war (1983's "Trinity's Child") journalist/author William Prochnau [1937-2018] wrote a 7-part series on nukes/COG that was published in April/May of 1982. "At The Crater's Edge." Worth checking out if you have access to the WaPo archives.

NARA always serves up the good news before hitting you with the bad news...

Hero. #ScottPelley.

Brian Lamb hosts journalist/novelist William Prochnau [1937-2018] on C-SPAN on 11/14/83 (a week before THE DAY AFTER was broadcast on ABC). Interesting discussion including the usual lineup of eccentric callers. cc: @wellerstein.bsky.social www.c-span.org/program/call...

Bravo! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/b...

Newly streaming on HBO Max, the brutal 1949 noir “Act of Violence” explores the devastating consequences of bringing wartime ordeals home to the U.S.

"Here's your f**king Diet Coke!" - Chris LaCivita to Boris Epshteyn. Favorite passage in the book "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America" (2025).

"...a facility known as Mount Weather..." - Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). THE X FILES [FOX, S9:E19, "The Truth" 5/19/2002].

"DronePort."

I wonder what character from Jim Thompson's book Steve Buscemi played in THE GRIFTERS (1990). Unfortunately, his deleted scenes are not included in the recent Criterion release.

A Fallout Shelter Sign and Hugh Jackman in SONG SUNG BLUE (2025).

Susan Collins is the luckiest woman on earth.

The fine print of the 1957 Mosler Safe Co. contract said its bunker vault doors could not withstand a swarm of winged insect-like nano-machines...

"some say." lol.

Cliff Evans' three-panel, 15-minute video art piece, THE ROAD TO MOUNT WEATHER (2006). cc: @rickperlstein.bsky.social www.cliffevans.net/mountweather...

Ted McGinley born on this day in 1958.

Vault doors by Mosler? Samuel L. Jackson at the NSA's war room at a location presumed to be Mount Weather. Rob Cohen's XXX (2002) starring Vin Diesel.

Move over Woodward and Bernstein...

We're coming up on the 17th anniversary of the first episode of the Washington Post's MOUTHPIECE THEATER. Canceled after sixteen episodes.