If you look at the tuning dials of most medium-wave (commonly known as AM) radios sold in the United States from 1953 through the middle 1960s, you’ll see triangle-in-a-circle symbols at 640 kHz and ...

We were all disappointed, no doubt, when we learned that the movie Oppenheimer didn't emphasize the role of the government-issue 1942 Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan that carried the plutonium core to ...

CONELRAD may sound like the name of a fictional android, but it is actually an acronym for control of electronic radiation. This was a system put in place by the United States at the height of the ...

Just as the '64 Imperial had CONELRAD indicators on its radio, after they were no longer required, so did the radio in the '64 Plymouth Belvedere. Chrysler must have stocked up on radios well ahead of ...

The EBS system was developed as a response to shortcomings in the CONELRAD system for civil preparedness announcements. As Al Williams noted in his recent article on CONELRAD, the system was troubled ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best from Adam O'Neal, Mary O'Grady, Joe Sternberg and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly You’ll occasionally see them at flea markets ...