by Hiroko Shimizu | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
Editor’s Note: Japanese art writer and publisher Hiroko Shimizu’s essay is in two parts. The first part is a brief overview of her country’s nuclear issues and its artists working with these issues, both post-Hiroshima and post-Fukushima (site of...
by Eve Andree Laramee | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
‘Now we are all sons of bitches.’ – Test director Kenneth Bainbridge to J. Robert Oppenheimer, while watching the first atomic bomb test ‘It is dark disaster that brings the light.’ – Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster...
by Beverly Naidus | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
PROLOGUE SHOPPING IN MY LOCAL CO-OP MARKET, contemplating the purchase of some wild salmon, I ask the friendly counterman if he knows the fish’s origin. ‘Alaska,’ he replies. ‘Are there tests being done on the fish?’ I continue....
by Laura Lynch | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
Dedicated to my brother, Joseph Jeremiah Lynch, March 26, 1952 – July 25, 2005. INTRODUCTION IN CONTEMPLATING SEVEN DECADES OF the detrimental effects nuclear technology has had on our global landscape and the enormous consequences it may have on our very...
by Ann T. Rosenthal | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
INTRODUCTION ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES IS driving with my parents through Los Angeles and spotting a bomb shelter on a front lawn. I remember duck and cover exercises in junior high school, and checking where bomb shelter signs were posted in my neighborhood. The...
by Insa Winkler | Aug 16, 2012 | 5, Magazine
INTRODUCTION TEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL, IN 1996, reports by NGOs on the aftermath of the disaster were prepared for TV and other media, but the only data released was from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) together with WHO (World Health Organization)—a...
