6 Minutes to Nuclear Holocaust

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Title

6 Minutes to Nuclear Holocaust

Subject

anti-nuclear movement, Euromissiles, disarmament

Description

A flier announcing national demonstrations against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.

Creator

Seneca Depot October Action Coalition, artwork by Peg Averill

Date

1983

Contributor

Kimber Heinz

Rights

From the War Resisters League Southeast Regional Office Records #5213, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Format

.tif

Language

English

Type

political flier

Coverage

United States

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Text

Stop The Cruise & Pershing II
Convert Seneca Depot
Freeze The Arms Race
Fund Human Needs
End Military Intervention

DEMONSTRATE
SENECA ARMY DEPOT
OCTOBER 22-24

An unimaginable fate of global death, destruction, and agony awaits us all unless the peoples of the world force the super powers to reach agreements that will gradually reduce and eliminate all nuclear weapons.

STOP THE CRUISE AND PERSHING MISSILES

If President Reagan succeeds in his drive to deploy Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe this year, it will bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust.

Pershings are devastating nuclear missiles whose indescribable destructive power makes the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like toys in comparison.

Reagan plans to surround the Soviet Union with these "devil's weapons," which are designed to reach their targets in six minutes...

Files

Flier with a title in bold, handwritten marker titled, "6 minutes to Nuclear Holocaust," featuring a print of a drawing in ink or marker of an image of a human skull with teeth at the upper center of an analog clock. The skull is holding a missile in its teeth, pointed at the number "6" on the clock. Along the side of the image in handwritten text is the artist's name: Peg Averill. Text describing an anti-nuclear action is below the image.

Citation

Seneca Depot October Action Coalition, artwork by Peg Averill, “6 Minutes to Nuclear Holocaust,” War Resisters League Southeast, accessed November 21, 2024, https://resistwarsoutheast.com/items/show/2.

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