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SANTA MONICA (CBS) — Officials say the Paul Conrad anti-nuclear war statue could be removed from the downtown Civic Center. The 26-foot statue, which has a mushroom cloud made of chains, is in danger of collapsing. Experts say it will take $423,000 to re

The Associated Press | SANTA MONICA, Calif. The anti-nuclear war mushroom cloud sculpture in Santa Monica may be doomed. The 5 1/2-ton "Chain Reaction" artwork was created by late Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad

A cloud hangs over cartoonist Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica. Faced with having to raise as much as $423,000 to repair the two-decade-old "Chain Reaction," city staffers have instead advised spending $20,000 to remove it. After

It could be up to you, public, to raise the nearly half a million dollars needed to keep the anti-nuclear sculpture at the Santa Monica Civic Center in the city's art collection. Salty ocean air and the rain have corroded the 26-foot tall fiberglass mush

Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Editor Jenna Chandler: Heard some news you want us to check out? Let me know: jenna.chandlerpatch.com Santa Monica's Art Commission will consider whether the city should spend hundreds of thousand of dollars