From the Taliban’s dynamiting of the Colossal Buddha statues at Bamiyan to the exploding and bulldozing of the ancient city of Palmyra by ISIS, the world is witnessing the senseless destruction of cultural heritage sites on a massive scale as an instrument of terror and psychological warfare. The locations in Syria and Iraq are some of the latest of these barbarous attacks.  Yet, in contrast the artist highlights the parallel threat to global cultural heritage posed by a nuclear attack on one of any number of major Western cities where significant repositories of art, architecture, and artifacts of incalculable value are housed.