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Title: 100 Suns by Michael Light ISBN: 1-4000-4113-9 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Eerie, haunting, horrible and beautiful
Comment: I appreciate the nature of these images more having read Richard Rhodes' "Making of the Atomic Bomb" many years ago. Without a doubt, what is documented here is the overt potential for total global annihilation by nuclear hellfire, but what is also documented are the direct descendants of one of the most impressive scientific and engineering achievments of all time.
Knowing that these images represent the ability to destroy on a massive scale, one might find it hard to divest themselves of their instinct to be horrified and shun these pictures, but if you can do so, I think you'll find a great collection of some of the most stark, eerie, organic and beautiful images of our recent secret history. The fact that these pictures were taken for documentation purposes, rather than those of art, makes the dichotomy between the beauty and the horror of this book even more apparent.
Well worth the simoleons.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, amazing, must see
Comment: A very beautiful book presented as large prints, stunning photographs detail the very primal and mythological nature of the nuclear explosion. There is nothing to compare these photographs to in their grandness they make brilliant destructive weapons seem almost beautiful in their conception. An amazing work, the photos are large the way they should be and you will not find a similarly themed coffee table book anywhere. A true gem.
Seth J. Frantzman
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Photo Archive
Comment: I received this as a surprise gift for my birthday this year, as I have a fascination with the history and science of nuclear weapons. If I had known about it, I probably would have purchased it myself.
For those of you that like the feel of a solid book in your hands, "100 Suns" will not disappoint. The 208 pages contained within are high-quality, thick photo pages. Each photo is displayed over the entire page and are of excellent quality. There are no wordy descriptions written across the photos, or at the bottom of the pages. All information is noted in the rear of the book, where there are short descriptions of each bomb test that is documented in this book.
A previous review stated that if you have seen "Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" that there is nothing new here. This is true in the respect that most of these tests are covered in that documentary. However, "100 Suns" allows you to examine the photos and reflect upon them in a way that film does not allow. Additionally, the book shows pictures of the people involved in the tests (soldiers and such), which is an aspect that the "Atomic Bomb Movie" does not tap into in depth.
Overall, this is a great piece of photo history that will also fufill a role as an excellent coffee table book.
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Title: Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War by Paul Shambroom, Richard Rhodes ISBN: 0801872022 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Full Moon by Michael Light ISBN: 0375406344 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes by Michael Benson ISBN: 0810945312 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt ISBN: 1568983050 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Nuclear Weapons by William Lambers ISBN: 0965652076 Publisher: Bill Lambers Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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