100 Suns: 1945-1962 (2003) By Michael Light
 
The title refers to J.Robert Oppenheimer's response to the first Los Alamos test of the atomic bomb, at which he famously quoted 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 and November 1962. After that date the tests were carried out underground. Within that period a total of 1030 tests are known to have been executed. The atmospheric tests were conducted in the Nevada desert and on various islands in the Pacific. The photographs have been gathered by Michael Light, who previously collected the material from NASA for 'Full Moon', published by Jonathan Cape in the UYK and worldwide for the millennium. He has drawn the material from the archives at Los Alamos and from the US National Archives in Maryland. This material was formerly classified but is now in the public domain. It included photographs taken by the clandestine Lookout Mountain squad based in Hollywood, whose 250 producers, directors and cameramen together with thirty to forty still photographers were sworn
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket 
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