Your camera and the bomb

This frightening reminder of the Cold War is a remarkable find from my Polaroid correspondent Bob Huber in New Jersey. Issued free by Polaroid in the early 1950s, this Atomic Radiation Tell Tale glowed in the dark inside your Polaroid 95 camera when hit by the gamma rays from an atom bomb. Without taking a picture, you were encouraged to process one of the instant prints to see how big a dosage of gamma rays your camera had received - of course you’d received the same! Details are on my Polaroid website scroll to the very bottom of the list of thumbnails and click on the Tell Tale.