Peter Dunlap-Shohl, the longtime cartoonist for the Anchorage Daily News, turns his pen to Alaska’s atomic history and how it intertwines with his own.
By Peter Dunlap-Shohl; Graphic Mundi, 2023; 104 pages; $19.95.“My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s,”
A present-day Alaskan might ask, what atomic heritage? Dunlap-Shohl, born in the late 1950s, recalls various puzzling or frightening events from his childhood and backs these up with historic research. First off, during the Cold War, three Nike sites with Hercules missiles armed with nuclear warheads surrounded Anchorage; his family skied below the mysterious cluster of guarded and razor-wired buildings on Mount Gordon Lyon.
While those bombers never arrived and missiles were never launched, Dunlap-Shohl includes a little-known story related to the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. Here he depicts himself as a 5-year-old, dancing around with his siblings during the exciting shaking, then moves on to what happened in the nearby Nike battery, where the launch crews, after prying open the concrete bunker doors, found “chaos” and leaking fuel.
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