If you haven't been following along, or you just want a recap of the comic pages that I've been drawing, I did a "director's cut" so that you can see my thought process. Hopefully gain a better perspective on my artistic process as well.
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https://berkough.com/the-ghost-of-jupiter-part-1-2025-directors-cut
Reflecting a unique era defined by Cold War paranoia and postwar optimism, Detroit once churned out candy-colored rocket ships for the highway that sported jet-age tailfins and polished chrome.
Spotted today at Autoworld, Brussels.
Let me tell you about an #AtomicAge monstrosity
It wasn't a #nuclear #missile, it was a nuclear *powered* missile. So it could fly almost forever
Do you see the teensy tiny problem?
The fucking thing constantly spewed nuclear #radiation
🤦
Luckily canceled
Constantly irradiating the atmosphere might be slightly bad huh?
Glad to put that in the dustbin of history
Right?
"Russia tested new nuclear-powered #Burevestnik cruise missile"
Fucking #Russia
A shadowy mansion, strange experiments, and terror lurking in every corner — a film that haunted 1950s audiences.
Bride of the Monster (1955), from “the worst director” Ed Wood, a legendary cult B-movie horror featuring Boris Karloff at his iconic best.
Watch on #YouTube ⬇️
or #Rumble
https://rumble.com/v6zhype-422421746.html
#BrideOfTheMonster #EdWood #BelaLugosi #CultClassic #SciFiHorror #1950s #VintageHorror #BMovie #TorJohnson #MadScientist #AtomicAge #ClassicHorror
Indulging my obsession with all things atomic-powered from the early nuclear age, here's the Saunders-Roe Princess, a turboprop flying boat that was to recreate the aerial sea routes used by BOAC before WWII once the war was over.
Delays made it obsolete by the time the prototype was complete (superseded by land-based jet airliners), but in the mid-50s it was mooted by the US Navy for fitting with a nuclear reactor, their answer to the USAF's NB-36H. It never happened, of course.
What Can We Learn From the Birth of the #NuclearEra?
By Eric Ross, #CommonDreams
August 3, 2025
"In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals #India and #Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to 2 billion lives worldwide.
"The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp relief in the context of the recent attacks on #Iran by #Israel and the #UnitedStates. That system has entrenched a dangerous double standard, creating perverse incentives for the #proliferation of world-destroying weaponry, already possessed by nine countries. Many of those nations use their arsenals to exercise imperial impunity, while non-nuclear states increasingly feel compelled to pursue nuclear weapons in the name of national security and survival.
"Meanwhile, the largest nuclear powers show not the slightest signs of responsibility or restraint. The United States, #Russia, and #China are investing heavily in the 'modernization' and expansion of their arsenals, fueling a renewed arms race. And that escalation comes amid growing global instability contributing to a Manichean world of antagonistic armed blocs, reminiscent of the #ColdWar at its worst.
"The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?
"The current crisis coincides with the 80th anniversary of the #TrinityTest, the first detonation of an atomic weapon that would soon obliterate the Japanese cities of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki and so inaugurate the #AtomicAge. So many years later, it’s worth critically reassessing the decisions that conferred on humanity such a power of self-annihilation. After all, we continue to live with the fallout of the choices made (and not made), including those of the scientists who created the bomb. That history also serves as a reminder that alternative paths were available then and that another world remains possible today."
Read more:
https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/08/03/hiroshimas-history-lesson/
#NoNukes #NoWar #NoNuclearWeapons #NoNuclearWar #AnotherWorldIsPossible #BeyondNuclear
💣 Today in History – July 16, 1945
They called it Trinity.
The first successful nuclear test — and the day science gave humanity the power to destroy itself.
#Brewminate #TrinityTest #AtomicAge #NuclearHistory #TodayInHistory
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