That Mushroom Cloud? Oh, Never Mind.

The article focuses on cultural life in the Czech Republic, focusing on the arts collective Ztohoven. The group, famed for its guerrilla marketing pranks, hacked into a Czech television network in the fall of 2007 to broadcast a picture of a landscape undergoing an atomic explosion. Twelve of its members will face trial for this act, but most Czechs view it tolerantly as an expression of the country's longstanding fondness for pranks of all kinds.