As if, in midcentury Alaska, you needed more ways to die. From the
creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel My Degeneration:
A Journey Through Parkinson’s comes an unnervingly funny tale of
life in Alaska during the tensest times of the Cold War. Peter
Dunlap-Shohl grew up on the front lines of the Cold War in the
1950s and ’60s, where Alaska residents lived in the shadow of a
nuclear arsenal nine times the size of the Soviet Union’s. This
graphic novel recounts the surprising and tragicomic details of the
nuclear threats faced by Alaskans, including Project Chariot,
championed by Edward Teller and his “firecracker boys” in the
late 1950s and early ’60s; the nearly nuclear disaster caused by
the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964; and the 1971 test of a
nuclear warhead on the island of Amchitka. Dunlap-Shohl shares the
terrible consequences that these events and others had for humans
and animals alike, all in the service of “atoms for peace.”
Drawn with Dunlap-Shohl’s characteristic editorial cartooning
style, Nuking Alaska is a fast-paced reminder of how close we came
to total annihilation just a half century ago—and how terribly
relevant the nuclear threat remains to this day.
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