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Notes toward a Radioactive Art
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, February 1992
- pp. 37-41
- Article
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Nuclear devices derive meaning from their uses. At present they are weapons to the extent that their keepers intend to use them as weapons. In addition, they are products of advanced technology, sources of economic profit and emblems of both security and evil. They can also be art. This note explores their potential as art.