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“Sleep, Baby, Sleep”
As Geneva Convention nuclear arms control negotiations broke down in 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a fifty-megaton nuclear weapon, and the United States threatened to resume atmospheric testing in retaliation. Here, in a chilling image, Herblock defines the Soviet Union as the bad guy, which he represents as a nuclear missile. It annihilates the human race, symbolized by the unseen baby in its buggy.
“Sleep, Baby, Sleep,” 1961. Published in the Washington Post, October 25, 1961. |