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Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, Peter Kennard created numerous posters for nuclear disarmament.
Broken Missile, 1981, is an iteration of his cover design for Protest and Survive, 1980, a parody pamphlet that skewered Britain's "Protect and Survive" campaign to inform citizens about what to do during a nuclear attack.
While Peter Kennard often lifted images of weapons of war from official manufacturing catalogs, in this instance he purchased a toy nuclear missile from the children’s store Hamleys, smashed it with a hammer, and photographed it around a hand-cut cardboard peace sign.
From the archive of Peter Kennard. Signed. Printed in 1981. Photolithography on semi-gloss paper. Measures 19.7 x 16.6 inches. Ships rolled.
