![]() In other panels, based on his Nike research and a tour of the old site near where he used to ski, Dunlap-Shohl details the missiles, buildings, and the plans to use nuclear warheads to knock attacking bombers out of the sky. The author draws himself as a googly-eyed young kid below a big yellow siren, the shape of a tuba, on a tower outside his school he knew that if the siren sounded he was supposed to dive under his desk. In colorful pages that combine short explanatory texts with the author’s distinctive - often comical, sometimes terrifying - cartooning, Dunlap-Shohl places Alaska in its Cold War context, home to the Distant Early Warning System, aka DEW-line, on watch for Soviet air attacks. effort to build an atomic bomb, and an epilogue, about a 1962 incident in which a misunderstanding nearly caused a Russian submarine to launch a nuclear attack. These Alaska-specifics are bracketed by two national events - a prologue called “Einstein’s Greatest Mistake,” about the beginnings of the U.S. That was followed by the nuclear tests on Amchitka Island in 1971. Then there was Project Chariot, the proposal to use a “peacetime” atomic bomb to excavate a harbor near Point Hope on the northwest coast. First off, during the Cold War, three Nike sites with Hercules missiles armed with nuclear warheads surrounded Anchorage his family skied below the mysterious cluster of guarded and razor-wired buildings on Mount Gordon Lyon. ![]() Peter Dunlap-Shohl, the longtime cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News and author of the acclaimed “My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s,” has returned with a second well-told and beautifully drawn graphic narrative - this time a personal history of Alaska’s atomic heritage, complete with end notes listing the author’s sources.Ī present-day Alaskan might ask, what atomic heritage? Dunlap-Shohl, born in the late 1950s, recalls various puzzling or frightening events from his childhood and backs these up with historic research. “Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive”īy Peter Dunlap-Shohl Graphic Mundi, 2023 104 pages $19.95. Updated: SeptemPublished: September 16, 2023
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