The art: Paul Shambroom, Level A HAZMAT suit, yellow. (“Disaster City” National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center, Texas Engineering and Extention Service (TEEX), College Station, TX), 2004.
The news: “Workers Strain to Retake Control After Blast and Fire at Japan Plant,” by Keith Bradsher, Hiroko Tabuchi and David E. Sanger in the New York Times.
The source: Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Special thanks to Modern Art Notes reader-commenter tsp.
The art: Mitch Epstein, Rancho Seco, Nuclear Power Plant, Herald California, 2005.
The news: “US Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty,” by John M. Broder in the New York Times.
The source: “American Power,” by Mitch Epstein. Highly recommended.
The art: Robert Polidori, Control Room, Reactor 4, Chernobyl, 2001.
The news: “Japan’s nuclear crisis widens,” by Mark Magnier, Barbara Demick and Laura King in the Los Angeles Times.
The source: Polidori’s must-own 2003 book “Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl.” (This afternoon I’ll tweet a couple more images from Polidori’s book. Follow me here.)
Also, after Polidori published his book on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, I did this Q&A with him on Modern Art Notes.
The art: Michael Light, GRABLE, 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 from “100 Suns,” 2003.
The news: “Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a Nuclear Age,” by Dwight Garner in the New York Times. The piece is a review of Ron Rosenbaum’s new book, “How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III.”
The source: The National Security Archive at The George Washington University
