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Ecological Arts and Justice: Nuclear Colonialism
EditorialPrint Research 2025
Though the Atomic Age has long passed, and the global atomic arsenal has been greatly reduced in the decades following the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), efforts for denuclearization should not stagnate. While the fear of nuclear conflict does not loom as heavily as decades past, this illusion of nuclear safety can not deter us from action. Attempting to grapple with these concerns, this project looks to the past to inform the future, and in partnership with the International Campaign calling attention to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), aims to stigmatise nuclear production, and ultimately calls for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons.
To articulate these goals, the project is grounded in the history of nuclear production, focusing on the nuclear testing completed at the Bikini Atoll from 1946 to 1958. Connecting militant exploitation for nuclear testing to the present, the campaign bridges these posters with the desires of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to align nuclear production with the divine.