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"Oh, Boy!—If the Russians Change Policy—If the U.S. Government Changes Hands—"
Weeks before the 1964 United States presidential election, the Soviets announced Nikita Khrushchev’s (1894–1971) “retirement” on October 15, 1964. The news caused international concern that the policy of “peaceful co-existence with the West” might come to an end. Herblock feared that international instability would undermine the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In 1946, he had created Mr. Atom, a menacing warhead that frequently appeared in his Cold War cartoons as a metaphor for the fragility of life.
"Oh, Boy!—If the Russians Change Policy—If the U.S. Government Changes Hands—," Published in the Washington Post, October 16, 1964. |