The project explores the historical coordinates of a landscape and an imaginary that brought a peripheral territory to the center of an international political tension. In 1959, during the height of the Cold War, a negotiation between Italy and the USA led to the installation of thirty nuclear warheads on the Apulian-Lucanian Murgia aimed eastward for anti-Soviet purposes. These missile bases represented NATO's nuclear vanguard in Europe, playing a significant role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Their dismantling in 1963 symbolized the reconciliation between Kennedy and Khrushchev. The Murgia was chosen by the Italian government as the territory to host the Jupiter missiles due to its strong geographical isolation, low urbanization, and moderate presence of anti-government movements leading the workers' struggles in northern Italy. The Murgia was the ideal place—a desert-like expanse in the southernmost edge of Europe, inhabited mostly by shepherds and farmers—that could accommodate as many as ten nuclear bases without opposition. Even today, the persistence of isolation and military servitudes draws a direct line to the political reasoning behind the choice to install the Jupiter missiles in southern Italy, in the inland area stretching across the southernmost edge of Europe: vast, steppelike, and difficult to access. The visual short circuit between images of yesterday and today is realized through the relationship between micro and macro-history and the reflection of grand geopolitical maneuvers on local realities. The perspective of this visual editing intertwines historical archives with internal documentation of current military practices and photographs taken by the author on the perception of the cultural and historical legacy of the contemporary landscape, in a territory she perceives as her own. The archival images featured in the photographic project are sourced from: • Internal archive of military shooting range “Torre di nebbia”, Altamura (BA)National • Archives, College Park, Maryland, USA • http://www.quellidel72.it/sistema/jupiter/hp.htm • http://www.basijupiter.altervista.org/