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Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción

a visual artist and educator based in San Francisco.

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‘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…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, climate-change, energy, nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear power, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, documentary, eric schlosser, kevin ford, nuclear power, San Francisco, smriti keshari, the bomb

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…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, atomic-bomb, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, history, news, nuclear power, nuclear-weapons, oppenheimer, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, horror, movies, nuclear power, Puerto Rico, rod-serling, San Francisco, the-twilight-zone, twilight-zone

Zion Lights: Teaching Us to Embrace Nuclear Power in the Climate Change Conversation

Zion Lights, a prominent environmental activist and author, has become a leading voice in advocating for nuclear energy as a…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, climate-change, energy, energy activism, nuclear, nuclear power, San Francisco, sustainability, Zion Lights

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…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, For All Mankind, history, nasa, nuclear power, reviews, San Francisco, science, space

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,…

Activism, AIDS Crisis, Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Fellow Travelers, Lavender Scare, lgbtq, lgbtqia, LGBTQIA2+, love, queer, Red Scare, San Francisco, writing

Information Sources Survey: On the Progress in Nuclear Energy Journal and Kyle Hill’s YouTube Channel

The nuclear activism information community encompasses individuals, groups, and organizations that actively advocate for or against the development and use…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, information community, information science, nuclear activism, nuclear power, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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,…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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.…

Angel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción, Art, atomic age, Á.R. Vázquez-Concepción, California, Contemporary Art, nuclear power, Painting, Puerto Rico, San Francisco

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