Michael Light
100 SUNS: 091 APACHE, 2003
pigment print mounted on aluminum
24 x 30 in
61 x 76.2 cm
61 x 76.2 cm
Edition 2 of 5
Aerial view of Apache’s glowing Wilson condensation cloud. Its radioactive debris rose to a height of 85,000 feet, and produced exceptionally heavy fallout in the northern islands of Enewetak. Apache...
Aerial view of Apache’s glowing Wilson condensation cloud. Its radioactive debris rose to a height of 85,000 feet, and produced exceptionally heavy fallout in the northern islands of Enewetak. Apache was a test of the W-27 thermonuclear warhead, stockpiled from 1958 to 1965 and yielding 2 megatons.