To do so, I will first examine the American relationship to nuclear weapons beginning with the detonation of the first device in 1945, all the way through the fear of nuclear war during the Cold War and the current climate of nuclear weapons testing. Specifically, I will examine the relationship between the body and nuclear weapons during the different " regimes " of nuclear testing.
In the following paper, I will attempt to add the existent literature of nuclear aesthetics by analyzing how we might, under a traditional Kantian aesthetic framework, aesthetically appreciate devices that are often seen as purely negative and destructive nuclear weapons.