As I write this, the permanent members of the UN Security Council (surely one of the more absurd oxymorons in common usage) are tearing their hair out at the prospect that Iran is making it's nuclear move: claiming that they want to develop nuclear energy. 
Britain, France, Germany and the USA are all looking at the long-term benefits of developing Nuclear energy, but are having a hissy-fit about Iran's plans to do the same. Of course, there is that small problem with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly stating that he believes the Holocaust is a fiction and that he wants Isreal 'wiped off the map', but hey, what's new?
Bearing all of this in mind, I thought that it might be worth looking at the work of Michael Light, specifically his 100 Suns Project:
'Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible - but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992.
100 SUNS documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with 100 photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen, and still photographers were sworn to secrecy.'
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