This is a grapaic is from a spread from the National Security Science publication from Los Alamos National Laboratory. This graphic depicts the intense few years of racing to get assurance that nuclear testing was not happening. This assurance would be through Vela Satellites that were built partly at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Back story: This graphic originally started as a linear timeline but there was a lot of dates, and I wanted to show the increasing intensity and need for a nuclear test band treaty–the spiral lent itself well to this–highlighting a only a small  but essential era of a the nuclear testing of the last 75 years.

Impact: The National Security Science publication has about 5,000 readers–many policy makers in Washington. Stories like this highlights the unsung heros that have served   and worked extremely hard to create that assurance that ultimately lead to Kennedy signing the nuclear test ban treaty.

Experience–this graphic showcases all the dates in a visual, digestible way.

Adobe Photoshop was used to edit photos to fit in this polar grid  organized within Adobe Illustrator, which was then linked to an InDesign file for the publication. The design required understanding of tools in Adobe, Photoshop Content Fill, masking tools, blending tools and cropping, and InDesign Layout.