Journeying to atomic heritage sites, the locations of actively deployed nuclear weapons, and places used for the production of research or material for these weapons is a key part of my practice as an artist. I make field recordings at these locations that play in important part in my sound-based work, and document them with photographs.
Saddle Mountains, WA (Hanford Site) – site of the main breeder reactor for the Manhattan Project, which continued to produce plutonium throughout the Cold War
Wendover, UT – location of the air base and proving grounds used by the 509th Composite group to conduct training operations leading up to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Beatrice, NE – site of retired Atlas missile silo under the control of Lincoln AFB (Missile Silo 8)
Wall, SD – site of retired Delta-09 Minuteman Missile Silo
Southern UT – abandoned uranium mine
Minot, ND – location of Minot AFB, where both the nuclear capable B-52 bombers of the 5th Bomb Wing and the 91st Missile Wing (which controls 150 ICBMs) are based
Wall, SD – site of retired Delta-09 Minuteman Missile Silo, in view of the Badlands
Southern UT –warning sign regarding disused mines
Southern UT – view from within abandoned uranium mine
Arco, ID – first city powered by a nuclear reactor
Arco, ID – EBR-I experimental breeder reactor