Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
The Atomic Spectacle
Nine states hold roughly twelve thousand nuclear weapons between them, and the treaties built to constrain them have been abandoned one by one. The Atomic Spectacle returns to the age of testing — Bikini, Semipalatinsk, Maralinga, Moruroa, Nevada — when the consequences of these weapons were measured on real islands, real deserts and real people, and when what the public was told rarely matched what the record showed. Circus Bazaar publishes this series in support of the global movement against nuclear war, and in the conviction that the case is strongest when the evidence is allowed to speak for itself.
Edited by David A Wargowski
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Operation Crossroads, Part V
Operation Crossroads and the Birth of Modern Radiation Protection
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The Fractured Island – Religion, Resistance and Ruin in the Southern Philippines
Five hundred years. Two gods. One island. No peace in Mindanao.
Operation Crossroads
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Operation Crossroads, Part I
In the summer of 1946, less than a year after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States… Read More →
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Operation Crossroads, Part II
On 1 July 1946, nearly a year after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States detonated an… Read More →
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Operation Crossroads, Part V
When Operation Crossroads concluded at Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946, military planners believed they had successfully measured the… Read More →
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Operation Crossroads, Part VII
Crossroads Baker, showing the white surface “crack” under the ships, and the top of the hollow spray column. Read More →