‘We are poorer for the things you are looking at in these pictures’ – The Washington Post

‘We are poorer for the things you are looking at in these pictures’

A photographer travels the globe visiting defunct cold war sites.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/11/30/we-are-poorer-for-the-things-you-are-looking-at-in-these-pictures/

By the mid ’80s, the two superpowers possessed a combined sum of more than 70,000 nuclear warheads, a number sufficient to put 357 warheads, each with yields far exceeding that of the Hiroshima bomb, onto every capital city of every country on the entire globe