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You may browse the Atlas by following the curated "paths" of information and interpretation provided by the editors. These paths roughly track the movement of radioactive materials from the earth, into weapons or energy sources, and then into unmanageable waste—along with the environmental, social, technical, and ethical ramifications of these processes. In addition to the stages of the production process, you may view in sequence the positivist, technocratic version of this story, or the often hidden or repressed shadow side to the industrial processing of nuclear materials.
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Cover Image by Shanna Merola, "An Invisible Yet Highly Energetic Form of Light," from Nuclear Winter.
Atlas design by Byse.
Funded by grants from Georgetown University and Northeastern University. Initial release September 2021.
Using the buttons on the left, you may also browse the Atlas's artworks and scholarly essays, access geolocated material on a map, and learn more about contributors to the project.
If you would like to contribute materials to the Atlas, please reach out to the editors: Sarah Kanouse (s.kanouse at northeastern.edu) and Shiloh Krupar (srk34 at georgetown.edu).
Cover Image by Shanna Merola, "An Invisible Yet Highly Energetic Form of Light," from Nuclear Winter.
Atlas design by Byse.
Funded by grants from Georgetown University and Northeastern University. Initial release September 2021.
Fish Cop, Entry to U.S. Army Base at Fort Carson, Colorado, 10 February 2007, Wikimedia Commons
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Fort Carson
Fort Carson is a U.S. Army installation located just south of Colorado Springs, CO. In October 2015 the Army quietly applied for a permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to leave buried on its training field up to 600 pounds of depleted uranium. It is assumed that the nuclear material comes from a series of 1960s training shells used in a secret program that provided soldiers with nuclear-tipped “Davy Crockett” bazookas. According to the Army, approximately 12,500 acres may have been contaminated around the time of the “Davy Crockett” program. Nonetheless, the Army has requested to leave the materials where they (possibly) have been for the past 50 years—in the soil—because cleanup costs were estimated at over $300 million.
This film documents a test of the Davy Crockett missile, July 17, 1962, at the Nevada Test Site. Personnel from the 12th Infantry Regiment from Fort Carson where present for the test, protected only by trenches.
This film documents a test of the Davy Crockett missile, July 17, 1962, at the Nevada Test Site. Personnel from the 12th Infantry Regiment from Fort Carson where present for the test, protected only by trenches.
Source
Roeder, Tom. "Hundreds of Pounds of Depleted Uranium Likely Buried at Fort Carson, Army Says." The Gazette (Colorado Springs), October 18, 2015. Accessed January 13, 2023.Loading...
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