After Before Documenting the Abomb Author:Harold E. Edgerton, James Elkins, Anonymous, Hilton Als What might Baghdad and Manhattan look like after a nuclear assault? The relevance of such a question lends a more than chilling aspect to this little book, which pieces together the "before" and "after" of a story whose moral we seem to have forgotten. Before: snapshots taken of Hiroshima after the atom bomb leveled the city in 1945. After: a se... more »t of extraordinary photographs by Harold Edgerton, hired in the 1950s by the U.S. government to document its nuclear tests. Essays by Hilton Als and James Elkins. Hardcover, 9 x 11 in./36 pgs / 0 color 0 BW10 duotone 0 ~ Item D20073« less