num_pages: 230
description: Ever since the first images of atomic bomb tests photography and nuclear weapons have been inextricably linked. What can they reveal about Canadas nuclear footprint?The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is central to how we have represented interpreted and remembered nuclear activities since 1945. During World War II Canada was a member of the Manhattan Project the consortium that developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The impact and global reach of Canadas nuclear programs has been felt ever since. But do photographs alert viewers to nuclear threat numb them to its dangers or by some strange calculus accomplish both? John OBrians wide-ranging and personal account of the nuclear era reproduces and discusses more than a hundred photographs ranging from military images to the atomic ephemera of consumer culture. The Bomb in the Wilderness links the past and present showing how images shapedand continue to shapethe publics perception of the nuclear threat.
language: English
title: The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
publisher: University of British Columbia Press