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“YOU SEE, THE MORE ARMS WE HAVE, THE MORE WE’LL BE ABLE TO DISARM”
Distrusting Richard M. Nixon’s stated intention to disarm, Herblock perched the president high on a ladder dropping a nuclear missile into the arms of a woman representing the world’s hopes for nuclear control. Barely able to contain the weapons, the woman has released her olive branch, a symbol for peace. Even as President Nixon proposed a new round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty with the Soviet Union, his administration debated whether or not to test the new independently targetable, re-entry vehicle “MIRV” nuclear missile.
“You See, the More Arms We Have, the More We’ll Be Able to DISarm,” 1969. Published in the Washington Post, August 22, 1969. |