Detailed Photos of Cold War Missile Sites: Opposing Superpowers,
Same Terror - 6:30 AM The expansive Cold War arms race defined
the geopolitics of the second-half of the 20th century. When the
Cold War got less frosty following the break up of the Soviet
Union and tensions diffused, people on both sides of the
ideological divide were afforded the opportunity to acknowledge
their shared humanity. The idea that we are not so different
from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton‘s
photographs. He shoots former Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
(ICBM) launch sites that were on both sides of the Cold War. The
photos are graphically composed, interior details of the sites,
a study of the infrastructure humans use to address existential
military threats. They’re largely free of national identity
(until one reads the signage, of course). By zooming in on
hardware, control-boards, telephones and airlocks, Barton
exposes a common, and surprisingly banal, side of terror. “I
want to force people to loo