The nuclear car made bold promises of ultra-long ranges and sustainability, but the sci-fi concepts are still decades – if not centuries – away from production. In 1958, an American automaker ...
The nuclear craze after the end of World War II was more than a trope to be dissected by modern films and video games. At one point, starting nearly eight decades ago to the day, post-war America ...
In 1958, Ford unveiled one of the most ambitious and bizarre concept cars ever imagined — the Ford Nucleon, a vehicle powered not by gasoline, but by a miniature nuclear reactor in its trunk. Designed ...
Science fiction or just futuristic? In 1958, an American automaker introduced the world to a ⅜-scale concept that proposed harnessing the power of the atom as a means of propelling vehicles. The Ford ...