Cold War Histories and Nuclear Futures
Welcome to our Blog from Iceland, August 2016
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Friðþór Eydal
It was a privilege to spend two hours with Friðþór Eydal on Thursday 25th August. We learned more than we imagined possible about the...
Night Photos
We took photos on Wednesday night of the dome in front of Hofði House. It was difficult to get focus, so we´re going to try to do them...
Höfði House
Today the Dome acted as a magnet. We set it up at Höfði House in Reykjavik which was the setting for the summit meeting between Reagan...
History of Höfn
Today in Reykjavik our energies were mainly focussed on one long conversation with Arnþor Gunnarsson, a historian based in the city. He's...
Our Last Radar Station
On Monday (yesterday, 22nd August) we visited the Nato Radar Station at Kevlavik, H-1A. We also looked around the old base, of which...
Þorshavn, Misty Mountain and the Monkey
Without Ránar Jónsson we would not have managed to see the site for the former radar station. The day he drove us up it was so foggy I am...
ghosts
mist and shadow, steel grown thin with rust, silhouettes of time, imprints on rotting concrete, the boredom, loneliness, laughing,...
Höfn's People
Huge thanks to the people of Höfn who shared their stories about the Radar Station with us. There's more photos to come, so please come...