Oakley Thermonuclear Protection

Posted on September 21, 2005
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Remember those ubiquitous Oakley “Thermonuclear Protection” stickers from way back in the mid-late 80’s (early 90’s maybe)?

Anyway, I saw one this morning, proudly adorning the back window of some nondescript SUV, and it bought back a flood of memories…Oakley Frogskins anyone?

And do you remember before Oakley made sunglasses they were most notable for their wicked cool moulded handle bar grips for MX and BMX?! I so wanted some of those.

I did a Google image search for Oakley Thermonuclear Protection and came up empty (all 35 pages of results)…amazing, until you think that the internet wasn’t in the public domain back then.

I did however find this interesting story about the history of Oakley. A good read.

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3 Responses to “Oakley Thermonuclear Protection”

  1. Ian on December 24th, 2006 6:16 pm

    I saw one sticker time ago, I really liked it…
    Ols school rules.

  2. Peter on July 3rd, 2007 9:54 am

    I remember them and they used to annoy the hell out of me, I used to wonder why did people want to stick decals on their car windows to advertise these damn Oakley sunglasses, and what was so special about them anyway?

    Peter, Melbourne, Australia

  3. Tony Boyer on October 27th, 2008 2:47 pm

    I still have one!! I was looking through a box from the 80s and found a perfect lime green “Thermonuclear Protection by Oakley” Bumper sticker. Pretty cool?

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