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Project Statement
Nuclear Policy
During the 1950’s the U.S. government was hard at work building top-secret facilities for many purposes relating to the cold war. Initially the facilities were designed for defense of bomber attacks, but as technology progressed the government built massive bunkers designed to survive nuclear attack, silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles, and a national communications network to activate the military in the case of a nuclear attack.
Over the past year I have been photographing many of the Nike missile defense sites in the Chicago area, the Congressional fallout shelter built under the Greenbrier Resort Hotel, and landscapes of North and South Dakota that are home to hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
All images are available as 24" height archival pigment prints made in editions of 10.
Project Statement
Nuclear Policy
During the 1950’s the U.S. government was hard at work building top-secret facilities for many purposes relating to the cold war. Initially the facilities were designed for defense of bomber attacks, but as technology progressed the government built massive bunkers designed to survive nuclear attack, silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles, and a national communications network to activate the military in the case of a nuclear attack.
Over the past year I have been photographing many of the Nike missile defense sites in the Chicago area, the Congressional fallout shelter built under the Greenbrier Resort Hotel, and landscapes of North and South Dakota that are home to hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
All images are available as 24" height archival pigment prints made in editions of 10.