from The Art Newspaper -
Can past nuclear explosions help detect forgeries?
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It seems like a poetic inversion to determine present-day forgeries using an indelible historic mistake of the modern era - that of the nuclear mushroom cloud. Picking up minute radioactive traces could indicate a post Second World War provenance. However, would the reverse be true - i.e. the absence of such radioactive traces be deterministic of a provenance that predates World War Two?
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