Only the deep past can make sense of terrifying nuclear futures | Aeon Essays

A tunnel to an underground bunker housing the launch control centre for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US Air Force’s Quebec-01 Missile Alert Facility north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Built in 1962, the facility was deactivated in 2006. Photo by Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP by Maria Stavrinaki + BIO A tunnel to an underground bunker housing the launch control centre for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US Air Force’s Quebec-01 Missile Alert Facility north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Built in 1962, the facility was deactivated in 2006. Photo by Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP is Professeure Associée at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her books include Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History (2016) and Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time (2022). Edited byCameron Allan McKean On the morning of 16 July 1945, at exactly 05:29:21, an unparalleled bomb was detonated in a United States desert and the wo

A tunnel to an underground bunker housing the launch control centre for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US Air Force’s Quebec-01 Missile Alert Facility north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Built in 1962, the facility was deactivated in 2006. Photo by Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP by Maria Stavrinaki + BIO A tunnel to an underground bunker housing the launch control centre for nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the US Air Force’s Quebec-01 Missile Alert Facility north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Built in 1962, the facility was deactivated in 2006. Photo by Alan Roge