The Bomb in the Wilderness

O’Brian’s history of Canada’s involvement in the nuclear story forms an eye-opening reminder that, however we perceive the world, our individual view is never the whole picture. ~Peter M. Sramek, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Art (Photography), OCAD University, University of Toronto Quarterly

Art historian O’Brian has brought together all his powers of observation and perception to help us rethink how we view the history and the mystery of the bomb.

~Ron Verzuh, author of Codename Project 9: How a Small British Columbia City Helped Create the Atomic Bomb, The Ormsby Review

Employing an accessible yet scholarly approach, O'Brian does scholars of environmental, nuclear, and Cold War-era visual culture a great service as he brings together images and ideas in an interconnected web of analysis that complicates the chronological narrative of events, [showing] us that photography may either alert us to nuclear risk or numb us to its dangers. ~Karla McManus, University of Regina, BC Studies