An unarmed Minuteman III nuclear missile with a National Nuclear Security Administration experiment on board is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missiles single unarmed Re-Entry Vehicle travelled 5250 miles to a target area just of Guam, by Simon Norfolk.
Victory arch built by the Northern Alliance… the empty niche housed the smallest of the two Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
Completely fascinated by Simon Norfolk’s entire portfolio, which range in subject matter from the LHC and Supercomputers to Normandy Beaches and Bosnia, all prefaced with detailed, thoughtful essays about the history of the subjects and his experience photographing them. You should spend some time with it.