About the Photographs
American Nukes started in 2022 as a little art project, a darkly humorous Christmas card boxed set of images of the “pointy ends” of nuclear missiles and bombs. I thought I would make a few images at the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque, print up a dozen sets of cards, and that would be that. But the project immediately began to grow and I soon found myself on the first of two loops across the continental United States, seeking out nuclear weapons on public display.
I drove over 25,000 miles by the end, visited sites in thirty-five states, and photographed over two hundred and fifty individual weapons. The sixty or so locations at which I photographed, despite all of this effort, comprise only about a third of places in the nuclear weapons database that I have compiled. There is so much more to do–the map on the previous page shows just the unvisited locations as of March 2025! (See the Where to See the Weapons section of this site for details on each of the sites I have visited so far.)
Down the road a bit I may offer a selection of these images as fine prints. Please contact me for more information and to be notified when I make those prints available.
For those interested in some of the technical aspects of these images, they are (almost) all made with a Fuji GFX 100s camera (a high-resolution, medium format digital camera) and (usually) the Fuji 32-64mm lens or the Fuji 25-35mm lens.
