2010.54.1391

Better Dead Than Red
n.d.
19 in HIGH x 14 in WIDE
(48.26 cm HIGH x 35.56 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1391


Top of poster has a photographic image in red: in the foreground at left there is a woman clenching her right fist and looking off to her right, behind her to the right of the image there is a crowd of men raising there right arms and guns into the air. Directly below the red image is a photographic image in blue of five male figures in front of a board with mathematical equations and the text: "Better Dead Than Red" on it. The figure at left is holding a newspaper with the headline: "Teller Advises Nuclear / Attack On Hanoi". The figure at right has his arms wrapped around a missile. Below this image is the text: " 'In Our Conflict With The Powerful Communistic / Countries Which Strive For World Domination, / .... The Flexible Power Of Clean Nuclear / Explosives Would Put Us In A Position Where / We Could Resist Aggression In Any Part Of The / World. Practically At A Moments Notice.' / Edward Teller". To the right of this text is a line drawing of the silhouette of the five male figures above, the head of each figure is labeled with a number 1 through 5, from left to right, and there is a key which reads: "1 Seaborg / 2 McMillan / 3 Oppenheim r / 4 Lawrence / 5 Teller". Verso has a drawing of two human feet that were part of a larger image.

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