Hello friends—a bit late, but some links for reading and a poem for the (last) week: One of the many, many stories that can be told about the first tests of nuclear weapons that do not center one man’s genius—and how the real history of the bomb and its aftermath in this country (
As always, plenty to come back to here after going headfirst down the first rabbit hole.
There are so many places. The uranium mines on Navajo land, Handford, Marshall Islands.
I was born in Northwestern England while my father was working at Sellafield, billed as an experimental atomic power plant, but actually a plutonium factory. As a one-year-old, my parents took me to the beach at St Bees Head, where the sand was later found to be so radioactive it was illegal to mail it. It's a wonder I don't glow in the dark.
Niitsitapii artist John Isaiah-Pepion profile in Orin Magazine.
Beautiful work don't miss it.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/blackfeet-ledger-art-john-isaiah-pepion/?mc_cid=ae75d0374e&mc_eid=758ae6b56e
https://johnisaiahpepion.com/
Lovely poem selection ❤️
Freya, the link to Nuclear Princeton about Alaska is broken, apparently Princeton (re)moved that page? Terra Nullis has a lot to answer for.
As always, plenty to come back to here after going headfirst down the first rabbit hole.
There are so many places. The uranium mines on Navajo land, Handford, Marshall Islands.
I was born in Northwestern England while my father was working at Sellafield, billed as an experimental atomic power plant, but actually a plutonium factory. As a one-year-old, my parents took me to the beach at St Bees Head, where the sand was later found to be so radioactive it was illegal to mail it. It's a wonder I don't glow in the dark.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/dec/04/nuclear-narnia-why-is-sellafield-europes-most-dangerous-industrial-site
And then we bombed Australia - Emu Field, Maralinga, and the Montebello Islands
https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/sources-radiation/more-radiation-sources/british-nuclear-weapons-testing