This film reveals how the United States—after having dropped 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands during the Cold War—studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the native population.
The Hanford Site in the United States was the home of the first full-scale plutonium reactor in the world. It produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste and is now the site of massive cleanup efforts.
The discovery of the nuclear chain reaction enabled the construction of atomic bombs and nuclear power plants—something never intended by the scientists.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.
Nina Möllers
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This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu
In this chapter of the online exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu writes about the impacts of US nuclear testing.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu This is the introductory page of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization”—written and curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu This exhibit considers how different forms of representation have been used to influence public perceptions of environmental harm associated with US military bases and activities worldwide. Instead of attempting a comprehensive survey of all the images, monuments, and narratives that have been devoted to these environmental impacts, I have focused on significant modes of representation including maps, films, literature, photographs, and monuments.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu By presenting historical examples of protests and activism, literary scholar Hsu Hsuan shows that militarized spaces often are contested spaces as well, This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu 
