In the 1950s and early 60s, the dawn of nuclear power was supposed to lead to a limitless consumer culture, a world of flying cars and autonomous kitchens all powered by clean energy. In Europe, it ...

Several e-mails arrived in my inbox last month touting a thorium-laser-powered atomic car. It produces no emissions and runs 300,000 miles on 8 grams of thorium! By the time I got around to Googling ...

The end of World War II marked humanity’s entry into the nuclear age. Having witnessed the huge destructive power of atomic weapons in two occasions before cessation of hostilities, humankind swore ...

There’s absurd, there’s delusional, and then there’s post-war American optimism. This wasn’t just a brief period of economic recovery, it was an era when people seriously believed that atomic power ...

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the 1950s and 1960s Greg Daugherty - History Correspondent A nuclear-powered car ...

“Engine in rear? Tricycle wheels? Polaroid Plastic top? Atomic power? Just as at home in the water or in the air as on the highway?” This car of the future was designed and illustrated by ...