File:Exterior of Apple II House (35650147).jpg
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This is one of the test houses built for the 1955 Apple II atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site. The 29 kiloton test was meant to measure the civil effects of weapons. Mannequins were put up inside this house, which survived the detonation (houses closer to the epicentre were blown away). I've reduced the saturation for some of the other colour pictures from the Nevada test site, but in general the negative scans were extremely vivid - the guy who scanned the 6x6 negs for me told me that he had to turn off the Digital ICE software for a few of these because the colours were already so saturated. The sunlight in the Nevada desert sets everything on fire. I'm pleased that the colours were so vivid were because it helps to convey the surreality of the test area. Across its many thousands of square miles are dotted sites of interest just like this one. Everything from craters to test structures that were warped and broken by the blast. There are areas in the site where visitors are not allowed to go because they are still considered too radioactive. And now, aside from a few operational activities such as hazmat testing and nuclear waste management, the site is largely frozen in time following the testing moratorium. Everything sits perfectly preserved in the arid desert environment. As the PR executive whisked me from one site to the next and I continued taking photos, it reminded me of a grotesque theme park - an atomic playground. She underlined this as we talked about what we'd seen. "Frankly," she said at one point, "Guys just like to blow stuff up." |
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Author | Danny Bradury |
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