100 Suns by Michael Light, Jonathan Cape/Random House, £30, ISBN 0224064517 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
MICHAEL LIGHT’s 100 Suns has a deadly, fascinating beauty. He has collected 100 stunning photographs of nuclear tests conducted by the US between the late 1950s and early 1960s. At the end, brief notes tell you what you have seen: tests in Nevada, troops getting “familiar” with bomb effects, an underwater detonation at Johnston Island, near to Hawaii.
And the images are extraordinary. Yankee, this 13.5-megaton hydrogen bomb, exploded on 1 March 1954, and was the second biggest weapon the US ever detonated. The glowing…
