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'100 Suns' refers to J. Robert Oppenheimer's response to the first Los Alamos test of the atomic bomb, at which he famously quoted a description from the Bhagavad Gita - 'a sun brighter than a thousand suns'. This extraordinary book photographically documents one hundred US nuclear detonations from the 215 declared atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the US between July 1945 and November 1962. After that date the tests were carried out underground. Within that period a total of 1030 tests in total are known to have been executed. The atmospheric tests were conducted in the Nevada desert and on various islands in the Pacific. The book is divided between the desert and the ocean.
The photographs have been gathered by Michael Light, who previously collected the material from NASA for Full Moon, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and worldwide for the millennium. He has drawn the material from the archives at Los Alamos and from the US National Archives in Maryland. This material was formerly classified but is now in the public domain. It includes photographs taken by the clandestine Lookout Mountain squad based in Hollywood, whose 250 producers, directors and cameramen together with thirty to forty still photographers were sworn to secrecy.
The photographs are presented with no embellishment. There is no introductory essay with the voice of a moral authority, but simply the presentation of the evidence. Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its size in mega or kilotons, the date and the location. At the back of the book there are detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weapons, a list of the names of the declared 1030 tests, and an extensive bibliography.
One of the virtues of the book is its emphasis on data not on argument. Every reader will bring to the book their own imagination of the consequences and implications of such weaponry. The pictures are all taken at the moment of detonation, not during the aftermath. The pictures of explosions are accompanied by pictures of the witnesses - the onlookers from what has been described as the 'US imperial verandah'. Given the global political situation, the timing of the book's publication unfortunately could not be more apt.
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Some shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. [ Oversize. Contact for overseas shipping quote.]. N° de réf. du vendeur 89262
Description du livre Etat : Good. Good+ in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately shelfworn and edgeworn, but is overall clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped; Clean boards with minor edgewear; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75" - 14" tall); 4.5 lbs; Unpaginated (about 200 pages); Black dust jacket with photo of mushroom cloud, and title in gray lettering; 2003, Knopf Publishing; "100 Suns," by Michael Light. N° de réf. du vendeur SKU-1343AA01503284
Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. 208pp with colour and b/w photographs. N° de réf. du vendeur 017396
Description du livre Erste englische Ausgabe. 35 x 28 cm. 208 unpaginierte S. OPappband mit illustriertem OUmschlag. Umschlag minimal berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. Mit 100 ganzseitigen Abbildungen und jeweils mit den Dokumentationsdaten versehen. Text in Englisch. Sprache: englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 67832AB
Description du livre Etat : Very Good. Light wear to extremities otherwise very good indeed in a slightly shelf rubbed, near very good indeed dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur C215330
Description du livre Etat : Used - Good. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780224064514