Friendly Fire is a collaboration between aigardening and stusontier, exploring the legacy, contemporary relevance, and future implications of nuclear-origin radiation. The threat of nuclear weapons entangles imperialism, environment, technology, and military power.

Friendly Fire began, and continues to evolve, as a series of digital zines, enabling the artists to continue collaborating from different hemispheres. The project now includes both physical and digital works along with a website at https://friendly-fire.net.

The first zine - Friendly Fire #1 - is released digitally on 6th August 2025, marking 80 years since the nuclear weapons attack on Hiroshima in 1945 which killed at least 140,000 people.

i Atollcom Commander Kwajalein, Oppenheimer–Truman letter ii Trinity topography (linocut), waste ink collage iii Iodine-131 in milk, 1966–73, Pacific Downwind iv Jakarat pen plot reworked, de Gaulle letter v Faulty contour, waste ink + scribble, “Confidential” memo vi Jakarat pen plot detail vii Restricted memo reworked viii Jakarat pen plot ix Aotearoa NZ monitoring x Underwater bomb tests, Groves memo xi Oppenheimer to Truman, Secret xii Waste ink unpublished xiii Oppenheimer–Truman, Secret, glitched xiv Air radioactivity, 1973, Pacific Downwind xv Naval memo (Adm. King) xvi Canva scribble abstraction

twitter.com/stusontier | instagram.com/a.i.gardening/ | instagram.com/stusontierphoto