The power of art to communicate complex information easily.
You can see charts of the total number of nuclear weapon tests (2,000+), or of the locations of those tests, or the years. However, this video communicates that history in a visceral, embodied way.
@bojacobs@sts@histodons@nuclearhumanities
I show this art piece in class sometimes - and it's so interesting to see the expression change on the students faces. They just had no ideas, and the numbers don't speak to them like the art does.
Since the effects of nuclear detonations cannot be contained at "test sites," specifically the immense clouds of radioactive fallout, when is a "test” actually an "attack" on those living downwind?
Every nuclear weapon state strategized the use of fallout as a primary method to attack communities in enemy territory. Is the act of inflicting these fallout clouds on downwind communities violence? Or research?
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