“Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation” by Timothy J. Jorgensen is a masterful exploration of one of the most enigmatic…
Advocating for Nuclear Power in ‘Nuclear Now’ (2023)
Oliver Stone’s “Nuclear Now” compellingly explores nuclear energy’s potential as a formidable solution to the pressing issue of climate change.…
‘Pandora’s Promise’ (2013) and the Nuclear Debate
“Pandora’s Promise,” a documentary that premiered in 2013 and runs for a concise 87 minutes, delves into the contentious world…
Unraveling the Human Narrative in ‘The Bomb’ (2016)
In a cinematic landscape cluttered with didactic documentaries and verbose visual essays on atomic history, “The Bomb” emerges as a…
A Revisitation of ‘The Atomic Café’ (1982)
In the landscape of documentary filmmaking, few works resonate with the eerie timbre of contemporary relevance as poignantly as “The…
The Twilight Zone’s Tackling of Atomic Age Anxieties
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Cold War escalated, America found itself grappling with the existential dread…
Reimagining the Atomic Age in “For All Mankind”
“For All Mankind” is a captivating streaming series that immerses its audience in a reality of the space race going…
On Being Gay in the Atomic Age: A Reflection on the Depiction of the Red and Lavender Scares and the AIDS Crisis in “Fellow Travelers” (2023)
“The importance of this context in “Fellow Travelers” lies in its ability to illuminate a dark period in American history,…
The film Oppenheimer, seen through my eyes
“Oppenheimer,” a film directed by Christopher Nolan, is an enthralling biographical film that chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer,…
nevada-semipalatinsk I-IX, 2023, on view at the US embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan, until 2025
The Risograph prints incorporate my drawing and fragments of images of the struggle to close the Soviet Semipalatinsk testing site in Kazakhstan.…
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 