'100 Suns' refers to J. Robert Oppenheimer's response to the first Los Alamos test of the atomic bomb, at which he famously"ed a description from the Bhagavad Gita
- 'a sun brighter than a thousand suns'. This extraordinary book photographically documents one hundred US nuclear detonations from the 215 declared atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the US between July 1945 & November 1962. After that date the tests were carried out underground. Within that period a total of 1030 tests in total are known to have been executed. The atmospheric tests were conducted in the Nevada desert & on various islands in the Pacific. The book is divided between the desert & the ocean.

The photographs have been gathered by Michael Light, who previously collected the material from NASA for Full Moon, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK & worldwide for the millennium. He has drawn the material from the archives at Los Alamos & from the US National Archives in Maryl&. This material was formerly classified but is now in the public domain. It

Includes:: photographs taken by the clandestine Lookout Mountain squad based in Hollywood, whose 250 producers, directors & cameramen together with thirty to forty still photographers were sworn to secrecy.

The photographs are presented with no embellishment. There is no introductory essay with the voice of a moral authority, but simply the presentation of the evidence. Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its size in mega or kilotons, the date & the location. At the back of the book there are detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weapons, a list of the names of the declared 1030 tests, & an extensive bibliography.

One of the virtues of the book is its emphasis on data not on argument. Every reader will bring to the book their own imagination of the consequences & implications of such weaponry. The pictures are all taken at the moment of detonation, not during the aftermath. The pictures of explosions are accompanied by pictures of the witnesses
- the onlookers from what has been described as the 'US imperial verandah'. Given the global political situation, the timing of the book's publication unfortunately could not be more apt.









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