As the home of the 509th Composite Group, the air base played a key role in the Manhattan Project. Wendover Airfield was a training base for the Army Air Corps during World War II. The Half-Life of History captures the deterioration of Wendover Airfield, located in Wendover, Utah. Both books highlight the tension between a government’s indifference to preservation and the public’s drive to remember and preserve tangible elements of the past.
Fox, and Chernobyl Zone (I) by Russian photographer Andrej Krementschouk. The NYT article profiles The Half-Life of History: The Atomic Bomb and Wendover Air Base by photographer Mark Klett and writer William L. On March 8, the New York Times published an article, “Pastorals of the Atomic Age,” about two recent photograph books highlighting the history of the nuclear age and government-induced amnesia.
