Doom Towns
2016-06-04T12:40:33-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvMmVjXC8yMDE2MDYwNDEyNDQyNzAwMl9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ==Andrew Kirk talked about his book Doom Towns: The People and Landscape of Atomic Testing, in which he tells the history of atomic testing carried out by the U.S. government in the Nevada desert in graphic novel format. Mr. Kirk used oral histories, classified documents, and photographs to research the history of atomic testing. He spoke about his research and displayed art from the book drawn by Kristian Purcell.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2016 LCV Cities Tour” in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 7-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Cox Communication cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2016 LCV Cities Tour” in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 7-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Cox Communication cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.
Andrew Kirk talked about his book Doom Towns: The People and Landscape of Atomic Testing, in which he tells the history of atomic testing ca… read more
Andrew Kirk talked about his book Doom Towns: The People and Landscape of Atomic Testing, in which he tells the history of atomic testing carried out by the U.S. government in the Nevada desert in graphic novel format. Mr. Kirk used oral histories, classified documents, and photographs to research the history of atomic testing. He spoke about his research and displayed art from the book drawn by Kristian Purcell.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2016 LCV Cities Tour” in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 7-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Cox Communication cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close
People in this video
Books
-
Doom Towns
-
Your purchase helps support C-SPAN
Click here to learn how
C-SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C-SPAN networks to make it simpler for viewers to purchase them. C-SPAN has agreements with retailers that share a small percentage of your purchase price with our network. For example, as an Amazon Associate, C-SPAN earns money from your qualifying purchases. However, C-SPAN only receives this revenue if your book purchase is made using the links on this page.
Any revenue realized from this program goes into a general account to help fund C-SPAN operations.
Please note that questions regarding fulfillment, customer service, privacy policies, or issues relating to your book orders should be directed to the Webmaster or administrator of the specific bookseller's site and are their sole responsibility.
Hosting Organization
Series
Purchase a DownloadDoom Towns
-
MP3 audio - Standard
- Price:
- $0.99
Related Video
-
National Atomic Testing Museum
Michael Hall gave a tour of the the National Atomic Testing Museum and spoke about the Nevada Test Site, a U.S. Departme…
-
Soviet Atomic Spies in America
Vince Houghton talked about Soviet spies who infiltrated U.S. atomic bomb research and how this may have led to the deve…
-
Atomic Weapons Tests: Trinity through Buster-Jangle
On July 16, 1945 the United States conducted the first test of an atomic bomb, code named Trinity, in New Mexico. The fi…
-
Atomic Obsession
John Mueller argues that our decades-long fear of a nuclear attack has been unwarranted and that the likelihood of a ter…
User Created Clips from This Video
-
- 5 minutes
- 12 views
-