Face to Face with the Bomb by Paul Shambroom, Johns Hopkins University Press, $34.95, ISBN 0801872022 Reviewed by Adam Goff
FOR a decade, Paul Shambroom photographed the elements of the nuclear arsenal of the US. What makes Face to Face with the Bomb amazing – not only in terms of photography – is his serendipitous timing. With the end of the cold war and the Gulf war in 1991, Shambroom’s requests for access to military facilities to take his pictures were finally granted. The US Navy decided that Americans needed to see the complex and highly technological environments in which…
