by marykavanagh | Jun 15, 2025 | Talks
For the second event in our new Speaker Series, the Atomic Photographers Guild welcomed Bo Jacobs, Professor Emeritus of History at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Humanities and Languages at...
by marykavanagh | Feb 20, 2024 | Exhibitions
5 September 2023 – 28 February 2024Grebel Gallery, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Nearly eighty years after the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb, the global threat dealt by nuclear weapons lurches perilously forward. Trinity, Then...
by marykavanagh | Jan 3, 2023 | Publications
Robert Julius Oppenheimer | Image by David Wargowski Editor's note: What follows is the prepared text for a lecture delivered at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 14, 2018 and sponsored by the Santa Fe Opera during its production of Dr. Atomic, which focuses on the...
by marykavanagh | Nov 21, 2022 | News
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its nuclear saber-rattling have roused the nuclear war genie, with the word “Armageddon†creeping into general discussion during the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. That 35-day crisis (Oct. 16—Nov. 20, 1962) remains a...
by marykavanagh | Nov 21, 2022 | Exhibitions
For over a decade Katy McCormick has examined Japan’s A-bombed landscapes, portraying the survivor trees or hibakujumoku subjected to the first use of atomic bombs in 1945. Standing in school yards, temple grounds, and city squares, the A-bombed trees are living...
