Face to Face With the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War - Couverture rigide

Shambroom, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801872022 ISBN 13 : 9780801872020

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Despite the end of the Cold War, nuclear disarmament remains one of the most contentious issues in international relations. Potential instability in Russia and the former Soviet republics has heightened concerns about the control of nuclear stockpiles, and in the wake of September 11, the possibility that terrorists might obtain and use nuclear weapons has become frighteningly real. In this book, photographer Paul Shambroom documents the nuclear reality we have created in a series of images that offer an inside look at America's nuclear arsenal. Taken between 1992 and 2001 at military bases in the United States and the South Pacific, these photographs reveal the missiles, warheads, bombers, submarines, and command centres that make up the United States's far-flung nuclear infrastructure. Shambroom's colour prints depict both historic, Cold War-era weaponry shortly before it was mothballed and new warhead designs and missile defence prototypes that may be deployed well into the 21st century. Face to the Face with the Bomb also features an introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Richard Rhodes, who places Shambroom's photographs within the context of the the arms race with the Soviet Union, and a prologue by Shambroom, in which he discusses his experiences visiting the country's nuclear installations. Visually arresting and chillingly matter-of-fact, this volume provides a lasting document of one of the most uncertain, dangerous periods in human history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Shambroom is an artist whose photographs have been exhibited in and collected by such major institutions as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, among other publications. He has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. He lives in Minneapolis. Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his 1986 book The Making of the Atomic Bomb. His other books include Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb and Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801872022
• ISBN 13: 9780801872020
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible