and UK)
And now for the many photos i promised you:
Photographer Unknown, Operation Redwing Super H Bomb – Tom and the Big Boy and Baby Bomb, 1956
Photographer Unkown, Cave Bomb Shelter, June 1972
Photographer Unknown, Anti-Nuclear Bomb War Protest Sign, July 1967. Collection of John O’Brian
The United States-Japan Security Treaty Protest, Tokyo, June 15, 1960, Hiroshi Hamaya, gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012.29.2. © Keisuke Katano
Michael Light, 100 SUNS: 008 STOKES/19 Kilotons/ Nevada/1957, 2003
Press Agency Photo. Vice Admiral W.H.P (“Spike”) Blandy and his Wife Cutting an Atomic Cake, 1946
Paul Shambroom, B83 1-megaton nuclear gravity bombs in Weapons Storage Area, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 1995
Emergency Life Pack for Nuclear Fallout, New York, 1961 — Max Scheler
Interior of heavy ion linear accelerator, University of California Berkeley, 1971. Photograph: Work Gallery/Black Dog Publishing
Curt Gunther, Hydrogen Bomb Explosion, Yucca Flats, Nevada, 12 October 1967. Collection of John O’Brian
Atomic Postcard. Explosion at Yucca Flat, n.d. Collection of John O’Brian
Atomic Postcard, Britain, n.d. Collection of John O’Brian
Photographer Unknown, Face 1945-1950
John Carlton, New York Nightmare: Air-burst Atomic Bombs Make Cities in the Northeast Obsolete…, 1949
Checking radioactive tuna, Tokyo, 1954 (via)
Construction of The Atomium, Brussels, 1957-1958 (via)
Check out After The Flash. Photography from the Atomic Archive at the WORK Gallery in London, until 20 December 2014.
Related posts: Anecdotal radiations, the stories surrounding nuclear armament and testing programs, La Cosa Radiactiva / The Radioactive Thing, Book review – Fallout Shelter. Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War,
Yasusuke Ota: The Abandoned Animals of Fukushima, Harold Edgerton, “the man who made time stand still”, Shomei Tomatsu, etc.
Photo on the homepage: Michael Light, 100 Suns: 099 Bravo, 2003.
