Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

After watching Oppenheimer with my daughter Annie Storm clouds on the Wyoming horizon looked like giant mushrooms. No surprise as movie s...

I was eight years old in the fall of 1959. We lived in the southwest Denver suburbs and my father worked at the Martin-Marietta plant furthe...

Not enough people have seen "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." It's satire, sure, with a ...

So this is Nebraska So this is Nebraska. A Sunday afternoon; July. Driving along with your hand out squeezing the air, a meadowlark waiting ...

I tried to write a piece about the massacre of 10 innocents at the King Soopers in Boulder. Few subjects make me speechless but mass shootin...

M as in Mike I as in India K as in Kilo E as in Echo That’s the spelling of my nickname in the International Radiotelephony Spelli...

I am surrounded by nuclear missiles. They lurk in their hidey-holes on the rolling prairie of Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. I give little ...

Hubba hubba! Alas, this Miss Atomic Bomb never really existed. She has a neat story though at http://digital.library.unlv.edu/objects/nts/...

Beautiful morning. Sun, light winds, no snow. So what am I doing inside? Collecting random thoughts on a Sunday morning. Received a fu...

Dan Danbom was waxing quite eloquently Thursday in The Denver Post about "putting Denver on the map." It was a clever piece abou...

My dream heart I was treated to an echo cardiogram at CRMC on Wednesday. If you're not a heart patient, you might know the "ech...

Jake Nichols reports about two separate incidents at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) nuke facility across the border in Idaho. Read all ...

Robert Greer Robert Greer left Gary, Indiana, as soon as he could to attend college and eventually become the only international cancer s...

A slide from a PowerPoint presentation for nuclear missile officers cites St. Augustine's Just War Theory to teach missile officers ab...

A nuke explodes in April 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. Looks like a painting, doesn't it? As the Cold War recedes into the past, it...

Just finished reading John D'Agata's book, "About a Mountain." It's a nonfiction account of the on-again, off-again st...

As I was saying just the other day, there are not enough YouTube videos on thermonuclear annihilation:

Driving my daughter Annie along I-25 this morning to visit a friend. She commented that she liked this part of the morning, about 9 a.m. The...

My father's work with the U.S. space program ended about the same time as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Thousand...

In "Dr. Strangelove," when Col. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) starts talking about commies poisoning "our precious bodily ...