| dc.coverage.spatial | Former site: Installed at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, District of Columbia, USA) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Former site: Installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (New York, New York, USA) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | Creation date: 1979 | en_US |
| dc.creator | Burden, Chris | en_US |
| dc.date | 1979 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-10-03T22:28:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-10-03T22:28:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1979 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 020020 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/2214 | en_US |
| dc.description | 50,000 nickels and 50,000 matchsticks; 30'8" x 17'6"."Behind the Iron Curtain, along the border between Western and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union maintains an army of 50,000 highly sophisticated tanks. The United States possesses only 10,000 tanks, and the combined tank strength of all Western European nations, including the NATO forces, is estimated to be no more than 20,000. The Western European forces are outnumbered two to one. This numerical imbalance is the reason given for the existence of the Neutron Bomb. Each nickel-and-matchstick combination here represents one Russian tank." | en_US |
| dc.description | installation view, Installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 9.35 x 5.33 m | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | five-cent pieces | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | matches | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 118912 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Installations (Art) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Money | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nuclear warfare | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tanks (Military science) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conceptual art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cold War | en_US |
| dc.subject | Violence | en_US |
| dc.subject | War | en_US |
| dc.subject | Soviet Union | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pacifism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Military-industrial complex | en_US |
| dc.title | Reason for the Neutron Bomb | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | All rights reserved | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (La Jolla, California, USA) | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | assemblage (sculpture technique) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Installation (Visual Work) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | installation artist: Chris Burden (American, 1946-) | en_US |
