nuclear war

June 12 March & Rally New York N.Y.
1982

Poster is printed on white paper. The top edge of the poster has text in red and blue: "A transfer of military budgets to human needs. A freeze and reduction of nuclear weapons." The center of the...

Good-Bye San Francisco
1978

Top of poster has a reproduction of a painting of the city of San Francisco from the sky, the Transamerica Pyramid can be seen in the foreground at center, the left side of the image is dominated...

"?La Carrera Armamentista, o la Raza Humana?
1982

Poster printed in blue and black ink on white paper and contains four rows of images that transition from pictures of bombs at top to pictures of human figures at bottom. Each row contains seven...

Arms Race? or Human Race?
1982

Poster printed in blue and black ink on white paper and contains four rows of images that transition from pictures of bombs at top to pictures of human figures at bottom. Each row contains seven...

There Is No Shelter From Nuclear War
c. 1980

Top of poster has a large yellow and black fallout shelter trefoil symbol on a yellow background. The bottom of the poster has the text: "There Is / No Shelter / From / Nuclear War" in yellow on a...

Stop The Arms Race Where It Starts Livermore Rally and Conversion Fair
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster has an image in the center of red circle with a line through it. In the center of the circle is a black and white image of a mushroom cloud. Below is black text. It reads, "Stop the Arms...

We are angry Women
c. 1979

Poster has blue background overall. Left side of poster has a photograph of a woman with an angry expression holding and infant in her left arm and putting her right arm around an older child....

The Nuclear War is Coming
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster has a black and white collage of images at the top. There is a Statue of Liberty with a mushroom cloud behind and the word Boom! written above, stars and planets, and Jesus with "Come unto...

Arms Race Human Race: March & Rally
c.a. 1978

Top of poster has a stylized drawing of a group of figures at a fork in the road. One fork leads over the horizon to the left where the sky is black and there is a mushroom cloud and the text: "...

Sunday May 1 March By the U.N. Rally In Central Park
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster has a color image in the top half and a black and white imae at the bottom. The top depicts a blue sky with the top of green tree. Below is a black and white image of the bottom of a...

"Gone with the Wind" : The Film to End All Films
c. 1981

Poster has a white background and a red border. The body of the poster has a photomontage in blue and white, of a male figure holding a female figure in his arms, one arm under her shoulders and...

"Gone with the Wind" : The Film to End All Films
c. 1981

Poster has a white background and a blue border. The body of the poster has a photomontage in blue, red, and white, of a male figure holding a female figure in his arms, one arm under her...

"Gone with the Wind" : The Film to End All Films
c. 1981

Poster has a white background and a blue border. The body of the poster has a photomontage in blue and white, of a male figure holding a female figure in his arms, one arm under her shoulders and...

How lucky that you were in a nuclear free area! Demand Nuclear Freeze!
c. 1984

Poster has a white background overall. Upper left corner has text: "How Lucky that / you were in a / nuclear free area !". Below is a drawing of a human skeleton seated in a wheelchair, to the...

World Nuclear Firepower 1984
ca 1984

Poster has a red background. Top edge of poster has white text: "World Nuclear Firepower 1984". Below the poster has a 7 x 25 grid of squares that contain black dots. Other than one square at the...

Einstein
c. 1980

Top of poster has a black and white photograph of Albert Einstein. The bottom of the poster has the text: "Einstein / Through the release of atomic, energy, our generation has brought into / the...

Untitled (Origami Crane)
1983

Body of poster has a grid of 12 squares in blue and purple that illustrate the steps of folding a paper crane. On top of these to the right of the poster is an image of a completed paper crane....

If We Don't Wake Up Soon the Earth Will Look Like the Moon
1989

Poster has a white background overall. Top of poster has a black square with a black and white image of part of the heavily cratered surface of the moon and the text: "If we don't wake up soon /...

Untitled [Edmund Burke quote, "corrected"]
1982

Poster has a black background overall. Top of poster has a photograph of a mushroom cloud with a red prohibition sign. Bottom of poster has text in white: "The only thing necessary / for the...

Untitled (Edmund Burke quote)
1982

Poster has a black background overall. Top of poster has a photograph of a mushroom cloud with a red prohibition sign. Bottom of poster has text in white: "The only thing necessary / for the...

If We Don't Wake Up Soon the Earth Will Look Like the Moon
1989

Poster has a white background overall. Top of poster has a black square with a black and white image of part of the heavily cratered surface of the moon and the text: "If we don't wake up soon /...

Reverse the Arms Race
1978

Poster has a border created by small, repeating, orange and red square tiles. The tiles contain stylized drawings of human figures, wheat, the sun, a house, and a van; one of the tiles has the...

Arms Race? or Human Race?
1978

Top edge of poster has the text: "Arms Race?" Below poster has four rows of stylized drawings. Each row has one item repeated seven times. The first row has a black bomb or missile. The second row...

International Day of Nuclear Disarmament: June 20, 1983
c.a. 1983

Top of poster has a triangular red and white photograph of space, the bottom of the composition shows a portion of the earth. There is text along the edges of the triangular image that reads: "...

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