FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE (United States 2008)
Several times a year nuclear missiles without their warheads are launched from California in the direction of the Marshall Islands, simply to see if they still work. During the Cold War this practice called up associations with threatened annihilation, but in the present climate it simply appears ludicrous. The British photographer Simon Norfolk recorded this test ritual in FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE. In doing so, Norfolk uses the outdated and essentially functionless death machines as a symbol for mankind’s warring madness.
