1945
Born from the Bomb
With the detonation of atomic bombs at Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, the world lurched uncertainly into an Atomic Age. So did the garden.
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1958
The Atom-blasted Seeds of C.J. Speas, atomic entrepreneur
Because everyone should have an irradiation bunker in their Own. Back. Yard.
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1961
First Atomic Garden in the United States, 1961
The good citizens of Cleveland, Ohio are confronted with C.J.’s atom-blasted seeds. The looks on their faces are priceless.
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1966
Disillusionment and Demise
“…the glamour, the excitement, of the boundless possibilities of power from the peaceful atom is gone. The peaceful atom has not ushered in a ‘new world’ but has rather become a part, a minor part, of the old one.” – David Lilienthal, 1st chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
David Lilienthal, 1963
2017