The art: Michael Light, GRABLE, 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 from “100 Suns,” 2003.

The news: “Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a Nuclear Age,” by Dwight Garner in the New York Times. The piece is a review of Ron Rosenbaum’s new book, “How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III.”

The source: The National Security Archive at The George Washington University