A story too little known, the work of a group of some 300 men and women on a most unusual military mission in World War II provides the basis for George Clooney’s latest movie, “The Monuments Men.” The unit, a decidedly unmilitary bunch of museum curators, artists, art historians, and architects, worked in Europe, landing […]
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Japanese artist’s take on the bomb
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Friday, December 7, 1941, which drew the US into World War II. As everyone knows, this led to the first use of nuclear weapons. Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a time-lapse video of nuclear detonations between 1945 and 1998. Though it takes a few minutes for the video […]
