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July 20, 1956: The annual nationwide civil defense drill known as Operation Alert was held.



July 20, 1956: in conjunction with the annual nationwide civil defense drill known as Operation Alert - the first daytime test of the emergency broadcasting system, CONELRAD, was held. Don't forget to complete your form!



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At the July 20, 1961, NSC meeting, General Hickey, chairman of the “Net Evaluation Subcommittee” of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a plan for a nuclear surprise attack on the Soviet Union in late 1963, preceded by a period of heightened tensions.

In the summer of 1961 [Kennedy] went through a formal briefing on the net assessment of a general nuclear war between the two superpowers, and he expressed his own reaction to Dean Rusk as they walked from the cabinet room to the Oval Office for a private meeting on other subjects: "And we call ourselves the human race."
Did the U.S. Military Plan a Nuclear First Strike for 1963?



The real Lt General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) played by Paul Newman in "Fat Man and Little Boy" / Played by Matt Damon in Oppenheimer Movie / Drawn by Denis Rodier in The Bomb.


Reunion booklet...for members of OPERATION PAPERCLIP!



Just sold yesterday.



If you're curious about what might be in the Operation Paperclip reunion Year booklet from Fort Bliss, here's a copy of the 1963 edition scanned by the University of Alabama Huntsville. Includes photos, cartoons, and an address book.

Our Company was the first high-technology firm established in Huntsville Alabama to assist Wernher von Braun and his rocket team in developing the Redstone Rocket. The Company’s leadership founded Cummings Research Park the second-largest research park in the United States, where Teledyne Brown Engineering is still located today.

The Company’s doors opened as Alabama Engineering and Tool on July 1, 1953. It became Brown Engineering Company in 1956. When Teledyne Incorporated purchased Brown Engineering, the Company was renamed Teledyne Brown Engineering. During the 1990s, Teledyne merged with Allegheny Ludlum and was later made part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated in 1999. Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. became the foundation of the Engineered Systems Segment of Teledyne Technologies when it was formed in 2010.

Teledyne Brown Engineering has supported essentially every major U.S. space initiative, beginning with Jupiter and extending through the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Constellation programs, and Space Launch System (SLS). We have also provided services and specialty hardware for the European Space Agency and the Russian and Japanese space programs. We are the primary contractor supporting NASA’s critical payload operations integration function as well as ongoing microgravity research and development efforts. Today, we’re expanding the commercial side of our space business with the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing, or MUSES, an Earth-observation platform that was be installed on the exterior of the International Space Station and support up to four remote sensing instruments, or other payloads, simultaneously.
Teledyne Brown Engineering

"Plastics. An Important Part of Your Healthy Diet. You could think of them as the 6th basic food group." American Plastics Council ad, in the New Yorker mag, Feb 24, 1997.


The story of Brandon Fleury


On the set of STAR TREK, July 20, 1965:




Star Trek: Voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise by Keith Birdsong, 1998.