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.
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?
@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.