The Atomic Question / Progress Report on Demobilization WWII Newsmap
- 1945
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35 x 47 inches ~ (88 x 119 cm)$970
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $225 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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Rare 2 sided NEWSMAP with photo of mushroom cloud from Nagasaki atomic bomb. with "Warnings from scientists" J Robert Oppenheimer, Irving Langmuir and Arthur H Compton descring the dangers of nuclear war.
Langmuir "an atomic war might make the whole earth uninhabitable by releasing in the atmosphere tremendus radio activity which would be distributed by winds."
Compton "one-tenth of any country's population might be destroyed in the first night of atomic warfare."
