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![GREENHAM WOMEN AGAINST CRUISE [:] CRUISE THREATENS PEACE AND BREAKS THE LAW [:] 9th Nov ’83 take President Reagan to Court in the USA. NP, ND, but England, ca. Oct. 1983.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/BRM3037-Greenham-Women-aganst-Cruise-1983_lowres-scaled-e1586449975582-150x150.jpg)
A rare 1983 persuasive map by the English anti-nuclear group Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles, highlighting the deployment of American ground-launched cruise missiles around Great Britain. In 1979 the Carter Administration agreed with its NATO allies to deploy several dozen ground-launched cruise missiles to the RAF air bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth, Great Britain, […]
A 1983 persuasive map by the War Resisters League, highlighting the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe. Issued at a time when NATO’s deployment of such weapons had catalyzed huge protest there and in the United States. This is one of a suite of anti-nuclear maps published in the 1970s and-80s by the […]
A compelling persuasive map by the War Resisters League, highlighting the pervasiveness of the American nuclear complex, emphasizing the close link between civilian and military applications of nuclear energy, and calling for grassroots mobilization. The poster features a thematic map of the United States covered with symbols indicating nuclear facilities, the shape and color of […]
A compelling 1988 persuasive map protesting the variety and volume of dangerous nuclear weapons and material being transported across the United States. The map depicts the United States covered with lines and symbols delineating routes for “truck and rail transportation of nuclear materials among the primary nuclear weapons production facilities, laboratories, and waste sites.” The […]
![Alan Lenton et al., Activities Planning Map [and on verso:] NUCLEAR BRITAIN. London: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, May 1981.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BRM3283-Nuclear-Britain_recto_lowres-e1571756081998-150x150.jpg)
Rare brochure with persuasive maps of England, Scotland and Wales, highlighting the wide dispersal of nuclear weapons and other military facilities across Great Britain. The brochure features a map of England and Wales on the one side and Scotland on the other. Each uses a variety of symbols to indicate the locations of nuclear weapons […]
Research by Judy Kowalok & Michael Marsh / Design by Rick Bickhart, ARMS ACROSS AMERICA[:] WAGING THIRD WORLD WAR. New York: War Resisters League, August 1989. Lithographic map printed in colors on coated stock, chart printed in blue on verso, 34”h x 22”w at sheet edge. Very faint discoloration along edges, else excellent. OCLC 41875007 […]
![[ Nuclear materials ] NUCLEAR THREATS TO THE BAY AREA. Point Reyes Station: Pelican Alliance for Safe Energy, 1981.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BRM3187-Nuclear-Threats-to-the-Bay-Area-1981_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare 1981 persuasive map highlighting the pervasive presence of nuclear materials in civilian and military facilities around the San Francisco Bay Area. It was published by the Pelican Alliance for Safe Energy, an anti-nuclear group based in Point Reyes and active from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s. “If you live in the Bay […]