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Duck And Cover immortalized at the National Film Registry
Among the films selected to the National Film Registry of the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS for 2004. This landmark civil defense film was seen by millions of schoolchildren in the 1950s. As explained by Bert the Turtle, to survive an atomic attack you must "duck and cover".

Group says it may have found missing H-bomb off Georgia's coast
WASSAW ISLAND, Ga. (AP) -- A group says it might have discovered a missing hydrogen bomb that the Air Force accidentally dropped off the Georgia coast more than 45 years ago. Derek Duke, a retired Air Force colonel, and others used equipment that detects radiation and large metal objects Tuesday to scour an area the size of a football field in Wassau Sound, a shallow area near Tybee Beach. Duke said that radiation levels were seven to 10 times greater than normal at one spot. The group then detected a massive underwater object, he said. (7/21/2004 12:59:12 PM)
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IAEA Sends North Korea to Security Council (2/12/03)

USSR film on meltdown - Anna Badkhen - Chronicle Foreign Service

Smithsonian Manhattan Project tour to include two N.M. sites Smithsonian Manhattan Project tour to include two N.M. sites

Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi to be honored on a stamp

Cold War history to come alive in desert Museum planned; Cold War history to come alive in desert