
Exhibition of photographs from "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War," shown at the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum from September 28 through December 15, 2012, as part of this full-scale exhibit of the Atomic Photographers Guild this year.
Thinking about nuclear weapons, the manufacture and testing of them, proliferation, cultural responses to The Bomb, and anything else that comes up from 30 years of memories of documenting the effects of nuclear tests in Nevada.

The Atomic Photographers Guild exhibition
will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio De Janeiro, as part of
the 2012 International Uranium Film Festival. This will be the second time this year that photographs from "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War" will be shown in another hemisphere. Many thanks to Robert Del Tredici for this, and the exhibition venues in Australia this year, and Vienna in 2011. On the anniversary of the first atmospheric nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, I am publishing this essay in honor...