"Postcards from Ground Zero"

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A lecture by two civilians at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, no less... a few miles from Warren AFB, they took great care to mention in their PR.

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Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge authors of "A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry"

Friday, October 10, 2008 at 6:30pm, Wolf Law Building, University of Colorado, Boulder, 450 Kittredge Loop.

Co-sponsored and hosted by the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This event is free and open to the public.

In 2005, Sharon and Nathan set out together on a summer tour of some of the United States' most famous "nuclear destinations", beginning with the Nevada Test Site outside Las Vegas and ending with the Trinity Site in New Mexico, where the world's first nuclear detonation took place in 1945. In between, they stopped off at the country's three nuclear weapons labs. From craters left by nuclear blasts to multi-billion-dollar science facilities at a weapons lab in California, their travels revealed a nuclear weapons complex that was not only still humming along, but gearing up to start producing nuclear weapons for first time since the end of the Cold War. Rather than a simple vacation, they turned their attention to the question of what purpose our massive nuclear arsenal still serves.

Their travels eventually took them to 10 U.S. states and four countries. From the deserts of Iran to a distant U.S. military outpost in the Pacific, they attempted to find out what purpose nuclear weapons serve. In this lecture, they will discuss their travels and talk about whether nuclear tourism--a growing hobby among many Americans--can serve as something more than a Cold War nostalgia trip.