On August fifth, 1945 at 7:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, a
Uranium-fission bomb was detonated 1,900 feet above the Japanese
city of Hiroshima. The city vanished in fire as hot as the sun,
and 80,000 lives were
lost. During the following year, 60,000 more died as a result of
injuries and radiation exposure.
That was the first time that the human race had used a nuclear weapon
against itself.
Today, more than sixty years later, at least eight nations possess nuclear weapons.
Hiroshima was bombed by a plane. Today, Inter-Continental Ballistic
Missiles can, at any time, from anywhere in the world, wipe a
city from the face of the Earth.
Those nations with nuclear weapons possess
the power to decide whether people will again
face the hell, death, and waste, that was
first seen on August fifth, 1945.
This was drawn in June 2002. It is in Prismacolor colored pencil and in
2B and 6B pencil. The original dimensions are 18 1/8" X 11".
Click to view the full-size image.
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This image depicts the flags of the eight nations with nuclear
weapons along with missiles used to deliver those weapons. The countries
represented by the flags are, from left to right, China, The United States,
India, France, Israel, The United Kingdom, Pakistan, and Russia. The missiles,
from left to right, are the Titan (U.S), the Agni II (India), the
Minuteman III (U.S.), the Changzheng-1 (China), and the
Vostok (Russia). Below the flags and
the missiles is the arc of the Earth seen from afar. Beneath that are images of
the bombing of Hiroshima. These were drawn from photographs in National
Geographic Magazine, August 1995.
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This was drawn in June 2002. The faces of the dragons are based
upon a small dragon chess piece. Click on the image for a larger version. |
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This was drawn in the summer of 2001 in Robert Treman State Park in Ithaca, New York. It is a view of Enfield Creek seen from a bridge which traverses it in the middle of the park.
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