Editing The Atomic Cafe (section)

==Release==
The film was released on March 17, 1982, in New York, New York.  In August 1982, a tie-in companion book of the same name, written by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty was released by [[Bantam Books]]. A 4K digital restoration of the film, created by IndieCollect,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kinonow.com/film/the-atomic-cafe/5c8020849099fd127900d11e|title=The Atomic Cafe|website=Kinonow.com|access-date=24 February 2023}}</ref> premiered at [[South by Southwest|SXSW]] in 2018.<ref name="Epstein"/>

===Home media===
The 20th Anniversary Edition of the film was released in DVD format in [[DVD region code#1|Region 1]] on March 26, 2002, by Docudrama.<ref name="Amazon.com">[https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Cafe-Paul-Tibbets/dp/B000060MW1 Amazon.com]</ref> A 4K restored version<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AymBFIo2-sM|title=The Atomic Cafe (1982) &ndash; Re-Release Trailer|website=Kino Lorber|date=28 July 2018|access-date=24 February 2023|via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/290740678|title=Bethesda presents THE ATOMIC CAFE|website=Vimeo.com|date=19 September 2018|access-date=24 February 2023|via=Vimeo}}</ref> was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2018, by [[Kino Lorber]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=24068|title=Kino: 4K Restoration of The Atomic Cafe Detailed for Blu-ray|access-date=24 February 2023|website=Blu-ray.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Atomic-Cafe-Blu-ray/210264/|title=The Atomic Cafe Blu-ray|access-date=24 February 2023|website=Blu-ray.com}}</ref>

In 1995, ''Jayne Loader's'' ''Public Shelter'', an educational [[CD-ROM]] and website – with clips from ''The Atomic Cafe'', plus additional material from declassified films, audio, photographs, and text files that archive the history, technology, and culture of the [[Atomic Age]] – was released by EJL Productions, a company formed by Jayne Loader and her first husband, Eric Schwaab.  Though it garnered positive national reviews and awards, the self-distributed ''Public Shelter'' CD-ROM sold only 500 copies and failed to find a national publisher.<ref>[http://www.dallasobserver.com/1996-06-27/news/ground-zero/2/ Wen, Howard].  ''[[Dallas Observer]]'', "GROUND ZERO: Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud," June 27, 1996.  Last accessed: February 20, 2011.</ref>  Loader and Schwaab divorced.<ref>{{Cite news|title = WEDDINGS; Jayne Loader, Robert Kirshner|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/style/weddings-jayne-loader-robert-kirshner.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1999-12-12|access-date = 2015-11-23|issn = 0362-4331}}</ref> The website folded in 1999.