Mushrooming cloud / Herblock. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Mushrooming cloud / Herblock., preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mushrooming cloud / Herblock.
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Among Cold War cartoons, few tie three world leaders to a single mushroom cloud quite like this one. Mao Zedong, Leonid Brezhnev and Lyndon B. Johnson are named in its record, and the cloud points to Chinese nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s. Herblock, the longtime editorial cartoonist of the *Washington Post*, drew the work around 1965, a year after China's first atomic test in October 1964 made it the fifth nuclear power. The drawing shows how editorial cartoonists of the period used a single familiar symbol to comment on fears of a widening arms race.
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.5 x 38.4 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | c1965. |
| Subjects | Mao, Zedong,--1893-1976. Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich,--1906-1982. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973. Nuclear weapons testing--Chinese--1960-1970. Mushroom clouds--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,292 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202967 |
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