When he died in 1975, my grandmother, in a complete cold-war induced panic, went out to the garage, and torched most of his memorabilia. (Photos, commendations, etc.)

We still have some pictures of the bunkers, but I don’t think we have any of the plumes.

See the Nuclear Weapon Archive.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

I have to thank you for your contribution to a much broader understanding of the nuclear weapons history of the Cold War. I greatly appreciate what you have done to track down declassified footage, and to give it your own expert touch to restore it to “better than new” conditon.

As an amateur graphics editor, I am amazed at the quality that you have brought to these scratchy, dusty, decaying films. And as a former Cold Warrier (Submariner), I am very thankful that I never had to participate in delivering such devastating weapons against our fellow human beings.

Obviously, you aren’t forcing some kind of political “agenda” on anyone, but instead, you are simply making this historical footage available to all of us – and leaving it up to us to find our own meaning.

Judging from a few of the other comments here, I’m guessing that some of these folks have never had the opportunity to view your award-winning documentary, “Trinity And Beyond – The Atomic Bomb Movie.”

Or how about poison gas used both in and out of war.

Is meat murder to you too? or do you just like to do the whole “well it could be offensive to someone therefore I’m offended” thing because you can’t understand different perspectives?

Have fun trying to answer all that without being dimunative or attempting to bash me :)

The comment about leaving politics out of these photos is rather naive, like images of Bergin/Belson and forgetting the gypsies, Jews and homosexuals who died there. Inherent in the photos is the politic but that ought not blind anyone or make them seek a year zero solution.

The world we live in is the world we have made; we are better seeking beauty in the terror than hiding from it in the shadows of shallow rhetoric and fear mongering.

andrew rule, i believe the western shoshone of the los alamos area and the people of the bikini atoll felt that these were acts of aggression. 700% rise in lukemia rates in children born after 1942 on indian reservations in nevada should attest to that.

expezz2000 says “If viewers are only interested in observing these images as purely formalistic images completely divorced of any meaning / interpretation / connotations, they would probably be equally thrilled if these images were macro photographs of soapy dish water swirling around a glass jar.”
you’re right. they’d probably also be thrilled to see micro images of the way peoples skin curled back from the bone from the heat of the atomic blasts in hiroshima and nagasaki. or a micro image of a child who’s Iraqi or Gulf War veteran parents had DU poisening and was born with its intestinal tract on the outside of its body.

yeah. it’s art.

Simply put, they are supremely evil yet extremely seductive.

These comments remind me that all signs exist within an intellectual terrain that cannot escape the expansiveness of the human experience.

With this in mind, it is only conceivable to ignore the politics of these images if you decide observe the images as a person with a limited intellectual capacity. The moral controversy that surrounds these images are what make the images so compelling to begin with.

If viewers are only interested in observing these images as purely formalistic images completely divorced of any meaning / interpretation / connotations, they would probably be equally thrilled if these images were macro photographs of soapy dish water swirling around a glass jar.

Hopefully, much of the knowledge gained can be used to make swords into plowshares.

If you would like to see some more photos of nuclear tests, you should definitely check out the book “100 Suns” by Michael Light.
It should be what you are looking for.

-Erik

I would _really love_ to see more pics of atomic explosions, especially from Soviet nuclear tests.

Best regards,
Dave