Nuclear Nostalgia

A replica of "The "Fat Man"

Just off I-40 in Albuquerque is a one-of-a-kind museum devoted to the nuclear age, from its dawn in the forties up through its glory days in the fifties and sixties. This museum has models and replicas of most U.S. nuclear weapons, its hundreds of exhibits are refined and very well designed. It is, in my own humble opinion, a must see the next time you are in Albuquerque.

There's the lovingly recreated nuclear shelter with its old Dumont blonde console forever playing and replaying an old kinescope of how to be prepared for nuclear war, a witty exhibit about Spiderman, the nuclear superhero, the "Fat Man" that demolished Nagasaki, and the "Little Boy" that destroyed Hiroshima. And a lot of history about the intrigues and controversies of the Los Alamos days. It's the official U.S. museum about atomic energy and is affiliated with the Smithsonian, so it has a point of view, and its history is selective. Still, Lu and I loved it.

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