LOOKOUT AMERICA! is the first book to tell the full story of the most important film studio in U.S. Cold War history: Lookout Mountain Laboratory. The studio, nestled in the Hollywood Hills, operated from 1947 to 1969 at the nexus between the emerging military-industrial complex and the Hollywood culture industry. It made hundreds of movies, processed hundreds of thousands of feet of film, stored volumes of Cold War imagery, and served as a regular meeting spot for atomic scientists, military brass and Hollywood professionals. From the first postwar atomic tests through the Cuban Missile Crisis and even the fields of Vietnam, Lookout Mountain Laboratory more than any other film studio determined the "look" of nuclear America.

The book is available from University of Chicago Press, Amazon, or your local bookseller.

This site collects available films, documents, and photographs produced by Lookout Mountain Laboratory, along with their archival location.