Independent data artist and researcher Dr Simone Gumtau explored the potential of data visualisation as a form of historical enquiry. Simone devised and created a series of data art experiments on the physics of nuclear explosions.

"I was interested in the scale and the power of the atomic fission reaction being very difficult for humans to perceive, and that being part of the ongoing morbid fascination with these kind of weapons. Scientific visualizations as a genre try to be objective, rational and distant. Simulations of Atomic Fission therefore often fail to capture the unpredictability and the force generated, as they try to break down the process to be easily understandable. I wanted to see how you could add a sense of cinematic velocity in an animated graphic through a modified javascript (thank you to the original creator Diodesign)" (Simone Gumtau). 

See the full visualisation here: https://sites.google.com/view/nuclear-anxiety/home