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| Author | : Emmet Gowin |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2019-10-08 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0691196036 |
"Emmet Gowin likes to ask a provocative question: "Which country on earth has had the largest number of nuclear bombs detonated within its borders?" The answer is the United States. Covering approximately 680 square miles, the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 1,021 announced nuclear tests occurred there, 921 of which were underground. The site, which is closed to the public, including its airspace, contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles of paved roads, 300 miles of unpaved roads, 10 heliports, and two airstrips. Its surface is covered with subsidence craters from testing, and in places looks like the moon. In 1996, Gowin received permission to document the landscape by air, after over a decade of working to secure access. These aerial views of environmental devastation--made quietly majestic but no less potent in the hands of a master photographer--unveil environmental travesties on a grand scale. While groups of images from the Nevada Test Site series have been published previously, this book will produce the largest number yet, and three quarters of the pictures will not have been published at all. Gowin is the only photographer to have been granted access to this site, which is now permanently closed, post-9/11. Other than images made by the government for geographic purposes, no other images of this landscape exist. The book will feature a preface by photographer Robert Adams (America, b. 1937), whose photographic and written work is concerned with landscape, urbanization, and activism. It will also feature an afterword by Gowin on how he made the images, and their significance to him today."--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Peter W. Merlin |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2021-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 143967194X |
Established by Sandia Corporation in 1957, Tonopah Test Range (TTR) in Nevada provided an isolated place for the Atomic Energy Commission and successor agencies to test ballistic characteristics and non-nuclear components of atomic bombs. Also known as Area 52, the vast outdoor laboratory served this purpose throughout the Cold War arms race and continues to play a vital role in the stewardship and maintenance of the United States' nuclear arsenal. The range has been used for training exercises, testing rockets, development of electronic warfare systems and unmanned aerial vehicles, and nuclear safety experiments. During the late 1970s, the Air Force constructed an airfield for a clandestine squadron of captured Russian fighter planes that were used for tactical evaluations and to provide realistic air combat training for thousands of US airmen. The TTR airfield also served as the first operational base for the F-117A stealth fighter, an airplane designed to be virtually invisible to detection by radar. Now operated primarily by Sandia National Laboratories for the Department of Energy and, in part, by the Air Force Materiel Command, TTR remains a valuable national asset with unparalleled capabilities.
| Author | : U. S. Military |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2019-03-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781798515020 |
This official guide to the atomic tests conducted at the Nevada nuclear test site provides fascinating details about the testing program of atmospheric and underground explosions. Contents: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Warning Poster * Nevada Test Site Map * Nuclear Tests Conducted at Frenchman Flat * VIP Bleachers * Grable Cannon Site * Short Pole Road * Gravel Gertie Site * Hazardous Materials Spill Center * Atmospheric Test Relics -- Introduction * Pig Pens * Windowless Modular Structure * Industrial Buildings * Coniferous Tree Stands * Metal Cylinders * Full-Scale Industrial Buildings * Open Framed Structures (Railroad Trestles) * Garage/Shelter * Bank Vault * Concrete Structure * Gun Direction Tower * MET (Military Effects Test) Ground Zero * Domed Shelters Concrete and Aluminum * Community Shelters * Launch Site * Free Standing Windows * Glass House * U.S. Army M-47 Tank * Sugar Bunker * Cambric Research Site * FACE (Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Facility) * Ship of the Desert (Diagonal Line Test) * Atmospheric Test Vehicle Graveyard * Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site * Device Assembly Facility * Atmospheric Vehicle Graveyard * Control Point * Yucca Air Strip * News Nob * Camera Towers * Reflector Tower * Fortune Training Tower * Weather Station * Electronic Pulse Tower * Airborne Response Team (ART) Hanger * Joint Test Organization Forward Area Support Facilities * Heavy Equipment Yard * Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit * Tweezer Facility * Technical Facility * Plutonium Valley * U1a Complex * Apple-2 Ground Zero * Structural Response Towers * Drill Yard * Shaker Plant * Annie Ground Zero * Bilby Ground Zero * Huron King Test Chamber * Radioactive Waste Management Site * Apple-1 Ground Zero * Japanese Houses and BREN Tower Site * Big Explosives Experimental Facility * Buried Objects Detection Facility * Boltzmann Ground Zero * Icecap Ground Zero * Calibration Gun Turret * Hood Ground Zero * Kuchen * Balloon Tests - Owens, Wheeler, Charleston and Morgan Ground Zero * Drill-Back Training Area * Smoky Ground Zero * Baneberry Ground Zero * Gabbs * Sedan Crater * United States Environmental Protection Agency Farm * Hard Hat and Pile Driver Ground Zero * Spent Fuel Test (Climax Mine) * E-Tunnel
| Author | : Peter Goin |
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| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Art |
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Photographer Groin presents all-too-vivid color images of sites in the US where nuclear testing has significantly altered the landscape and anything (usually not much) that still lives there. Also includes historical and official photographs of tests and their effects. An exhibit of the photographs is currently touring the country. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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| Total Pages | : 738 |
| Release | : 1996 |
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| Author | : Andrew G. Kirk |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Comics (Graphic works). |
| ISBN | : 9780199375905 |
"Explains critical technological developments and the policies that drove weapons innovation within the context of the specific environments and communities where testing actually took place ... [and] emphasizes the people who participated, protested, or were affected by atomic testing and explains the decision-making process that resulted in these people and places becoming the only locations and groups to actually experience nuclear warfare during the Cold War"--
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| Total Pages | : 80 |
| Release | : 1971 |
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| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 1957 |
| Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
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| Author | : Susan Courtney |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2017-02-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0190459980 |
Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became vivid in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), itself arguably a belated response to Easy Rider (1969), this book helps us understand those films, and much more, through an eclectic history of U.S. screen media from the postwar era. It deftly analyzes not only Hollywood films and television, but also educational and corporate films, amateur films (aka "home movies"), and military and civil defense films featuring "tests" of the atomic bomb in the desert. Attentive to sometimes profoundly different contexts of production and consumption shaping its varied examples, Split Screen Nation argues that in the face of the Cold War and the civil rights struggle an implicit, sometimes explicit, opposition between the screen West and the screen South nonetheless mediated the nation's most paradoxical narratives--namely, "land of the free"/land of slavery, conquest, and segregation. Whereas confronting such contradictions head-on could capsize cohesive conceptions of the U.S., by now familiar screen forms of the West and the South split them apart to offer convenient, discrete, and consequential imaginary places upon which to collectively project avowed aspirations and dump troubling forms of national waste. Pinpointing some of the most severe yet understudied postwar trends fueling this dynamic--including non-theatrical film road trips, feature films adapted from Tennessee Williams, and atomic test films--and mining their potential for more complex ways of thinking and feeling the nation, Split Screen Nation considers how the vernacular screen forms at issue have helped shape how we imagine not only America's past, but also the limits and possibilities of its present and future.
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| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Nuclear weapons |
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This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States from July 1945 through September 1992. Two nuclear weapons that the United States exploded over Japan ending World War II are not listed. These detonations were not "tests" in the sense that they were conducted to prove that the weapon would work as designed (as was the first test near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945), or to advance nuclear weapon design, or to determine weapons effects, or to verify weapon safety as were the more than one thousand tests that have taken place since June 30,1946. The nuclear weapon (nicknamed "Little Boy") dropped August 6,1945 from a United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber (the Enola Gay) and detonated over Hiroshima, Japan had an energy yield equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of TNT. The nuclear weapon (virtually identical to "Fat Man") exploded in a similar fashion August 9, 1945 over Nagaski, Japan had a yield of 21,000 tons of TNT. Both detonations were intended to end World War II as quickly as possible. Data on United States tests were obtained from, and verified by, the U.S. Department of Energy's three weapons laboratories -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Additionally, data were obtained from public announcements issued by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and its successors, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy, respectively.
