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Are You Telling Me That This Sucker’s Nuclear? Adventures in Atomic Tourism
2012 Column Contest Winner
Anne Wheeler used to live in the Pacific Northwest and have purple hair and piercings, but now works for “The Man” at a white-shoe law firm in the South. To balance this assault on her soul, and free the ‘90s Goth girl within, she spends her free time working as a cemetery tour guide and exploring the vestiges of the Atomic Era.
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February 12, 2015Adventures in Atomic Tourism: We’re Gonna Rock, Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight
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September 9, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Robert Zemeckis Gets Me
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August 21, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: “Not Great, Bob.”
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August 9, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Three-Hour Tour
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July 18, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Little Cemestos Houses for You and Me
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June 20, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Stamp Act
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May 31, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: From the Vault
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May 15, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: “They Wanted Me to Build Them a Bomb, So I Took Their Plutonium,” Part II
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April 24, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: “They Wanted Me to Build Them a Bomb, So I Took Their Plutonium” Part I
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April 3, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Kilroy Was Here
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March 15, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Shall We Play a Game?
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February 25, 2013Adventures in Atomic Tourism: Mississippi (Radioactive) Mud Pie
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