Editor’s Note: Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and the editor of “War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict.” The following is an edited ...

Weaver Hawkins’ painting Atomic Power (1947), at the Art Gallery of NSW, is used to convey a purely negative message about “the weaponisation of science”.

Editor’s Note: Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and the editor of “War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict.” The following is an edited ...