| Nevada Nuclear Tests 2008 5 from an ongoing series. Pencil sketches 11.5x9 cm. Mounted in frames 18x24 cm. Frame lighting 17cm, 15w. The bomb’s names are written on metal plates attached to the frames. |
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| Sugar – Nevada, 19 Nov 1951, 1.2 kilotons | Zucchini – Nevada, 15 May 1955, 28 kilotons |
Priscilla – Nevada, 24 June 1957, 37 kilotons |
| During the 40’s and 50’s, the United States carried out
106 atmospheric nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. It was not until
the 90’s Washington offered a formal apology and compensation was payed
out to the large number of victims of fallout-related cancer. Nevada is also known as the Sagebrush State. Sagebrush is a close relative of wormwood, the plant mentioned in the Bible prophecies about "the end of days". The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. Revelation 8:10-11 Christians refered to this Biblical phrase after the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl means mugwort in Ukrainian, and mugwort belongs to the wormwood genus as well. Based on a literal reading of the Bible there are hence two places and events which may fit in with the prophecy: An accident at a reactor in Chernobyl, and a place which for a long time were subject to well-aware damage, justified to secure a country’s position in the nuclear arms race. |
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| Climax – Nevada, 4 june 1953, 61 Kilotons |