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Atomic Garden Resources: The Wilkinson Collection
I visited Muriel’s remaining family. Here is what was in her trunk of mementos.
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Disillusionment and Demise
By the mid 1960s, it had become increasingly clear that the grand dreams of the atoms for peace movement would not be easily realized. Ocean liners were not running on a thimble-full of fuel, there...
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Atomic Seeds reach Gilligan’s Island. Fun follows.
A mysterious crate of vegetables washes up on the island of our favorite castaways. But everyone’s favorite everyman–Gilligan–doesn’t notice the warning label, of course: they’re radioactive! And...
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The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds
TILLIE: (deathly afraid and referring to her cards) The past: The seeds were exposed to various degrees … of gamma rays from radiation sources in Oak Ridge … Mr. Goodman helped me pay for the seeds …...
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First Atomic Garden in the United States, 1961
In 1961, C. J. Speas took his atom-blasted seeds to the Home and Garden Fair in Cleveland, Ohio. There are no known accounts of this event, which claimed to be the “First Atomic Garden”, but...
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Atoms for Peace
In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave an emotional speech before the United Nations in which he pledged to use atomic power as a tool for peace rather than for war. The speech remains...
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Muriel’s Eccentric Atomic Occasions Round 1: An Atomic Ballet
“Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of...
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Atoms for Women: the Atomic Enthusiasms of Muriel Howorth
[coming soon] For now, read more about Muriel Howorth’s unique career of atomic advocacy in “Safeguarding the Atom: the nuclear enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth” by Paige Johnson, published in the British...
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Atomic Plants. Godzilla. Spider-Man.
We know by now that most effects of radiation are detrimental. But in the immediate post-war years, the idea that this new atomic force might possibly imbue animals, people, seeds with some of its own...
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