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Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive
Paperback
20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Graphic NovelsWeaponry & Vehicles
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781637790472
Publisher: Graphic Mundi
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
As if, in mid-century Alaska, you needed more ways to die.
From the creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's comes an unnervingly funny tale of life in Alaska during the tensest times of the Cold War.
Peter Dunlap-Shohl grew up on the front lines of the Cold War in the 1950s and '60s, where Alaska residents lived in the shadow of a nuclear arsenal nine times the size of the Soviet Union's. This graphic novel recounts the surprising and tragicomic details of the nuclear threats faced by Alaskans, including Project Chariot, championed by Edward Teller and his firecracker boys in the late 1950s and early '60s; the nearly nuclear disaster caused by the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964; and the 1971 test of a nuclear warhead on the island of Amchitka. Dunlap-Shohl shares the terrible consequences that these events and others had for humans and animals alike, all in the service of atoms for peace.
Drawn with Dunlap-Shohl's characteristic editorial cartooning style, Nuking Alaska is a fast-paced reminder of how close we came to total annihilation just a half century ago--and how terribly relevant the nuclear threat remains to this day.
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