How Nuclear Weapons Screwed Art Forgers

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WORKS CITED:

The Art Newspaper, "Can Past Nuclear Explosions Help Detect Forgeries?"
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Can-past-nuclear-explosions-help-detect-forgeries-/8529

The Venice Times, "Counterfeit painting in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum Venice"
http://www.thevenicetimes.com/guggenheim-museum-venice-fake-painting-175/

Physicsworld.com, "Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art"
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/jul/04/nuclear-fallout-used-to-spot-fake-art

Department of Energy's executive summary on Operation Plowshare:
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/reports/plowshar.pdf

Operation Plowshare wikipedia w/ rundown of all the detonations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

Operation Plowshare propaganda film (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJpdaX69FQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIsUMK4-csM

Benjamin K. Sovacool, "Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Power"
http://www.amazon.com/Contesting-Future-Nuclear-Power-Assessment/dp/981432275X

Isao Hashimoto, "1945-1998"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

Richard Feynman, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richard+feynman


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