I made this video explaining how radioactive fallout from the world’s over 2000 nuclear detonations have helped the art world detect forgeries. When I stumbled on this idea I was so struck by the irony of traces of nuclear blasts being present in paintings made after 1945, that I had to share the story.
How Nuclear Weapons Screwed Art Forgers
The story of how radioactive fallout from the world’s over 2000 nuclear detonations have helped the art world detect forgeries.