Description: The American Southwest holds a dark legacy as the birthplace of the nuclear bomb. But Navajo people hold this area sacred, and fight for its future.
– Sunny Dooley
Nuclear history is typically told as something that happens to us. For example, the history of uranium mining in the American Southwest is often framed around the U.S. government’s Cold War efforts, and frames the landscape and its people as bystanders or victims.
But what if we understood it differently?