100 Suns
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400041139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Simon"), does not show an explosion: soldiers huddle in a trench, identifiable only by the blurred shapes of their helmets, with what looks like glowing debris raining upon them. From Publishers Weekly Despite all the thousands of caricatures and artistic re-interpretations of the nuclear "mushroom cloud," photographs of the real thing are still intensely frightening and visually fascinating. Extensive notes on each photo and test are in the back, along with a bibliography. Many of the photos show only the blast, but some have people. . The back caption notes: "In a moment the ground and air shockwaves will toss them like dolls, then fill their mouths with radioactive dust and also make it temporarily impossible to see." Ultimately, that particular test "scattered deadly fallout throughout southwest Utah" and "highly radioactive rain fell in Albany, New York the following day." Aboveground tests ended with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty. Releasing
Great atomic bomb photo book We love 100 Suns so much that we have bought it twice (one as a gift and one for us). If you go to a big box book store and have it special ordered, it will cost you roughly $100! Found that out the hard way. Here on Amazon it is just barely over $50, plus you avoid the confusi. Stunning and exquisite images Taylor Fleet This is a very handsome volume, with images every bit as beautiful as the subject matter is terrifying. Shown are mushroom clouds from near and far, in black and white and in color, and soldiers hunkered down and bracing themselves against the burst in the distance.There's the . Five Stars Terrifyingly beautiful. 100 Suns is a stark reminder of the power unleashed by atomic weapons.
Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its explosive yield in kilotons or megatons, the date and the location. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. 100 Suns likewise confronts the indescribable by presenting without embellishment the stark evidence of the tests at the moment of detonation. Interspersed within the sequence of explosions are pictures of the awestruck witnesses. The enormity of the events recorded is contrasted with the understated neutrality of bare data. National Archives in Maryland. Since the tests were conducted either in Nevada or the Pacific the book is simply divided between the desert and the ocean. It includes previousl