Time certainly has taken a toll on “Chain Reaction,” the mushroom-cloud sculpture that has stood as a Santa Monica Civic Center landmark since creator Paul Conrad gave it to the city in 1991.

It looks like a happy ending in the effort to save Santa Monica’s “Chain Reaction” sculpture from the ravages of time. The Santa Monica City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to restore the 23-year-old ...

When the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago launched a magazine in 1947, its editors turned to artist Martyl Schweig Langsdorf for some cover ideas. The horrors of ...

Re: Dear Mayor O'Connor, Mayor Pro Tempore O'Day and City Council members: The Santa Monica Conservancy Board of Directors is concerned about the status of the deteriorating Chain Reaction sculpture ...

Long-time peace activist Jerry Rubin temporarily handcuffed himself to a chain link fence Tuesday, and has started a 10-week liquid-only fast in an effort to save an iconic Santa Monica work of art ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad’s anti-nuclear war “Chain Reaction” sculpture in Santa Monica may have once and for all avoided a meltdown. After years of uncertainty over the artwork’s ...