Cartoon depicting the result of the staged crash of a train carrying a nuclear flask.
- Made:
- 1984
Cartoon, by JAK (Raymond Allen Jackson, 1927 - 1997). Depicts the result of the staged crash of a train carrying a nuclear flask. Officials watch as an engineer tests the nuclear flask. The caption below reads "Well that seemed to have worked all right", yet the individual examining the flask is shown with two heads. Published in The Standard newspaper, Thursday, July 19th, 1984. It satirises Operation Smash Hit, a collision organised by British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board to demonstrate the safety of trains carrying nuclear material. Framed.
Details
- Category:
- Pictorial Collection (Railway)
- Object Number:
- 2005-7388
- Materials:
- cardboard and paper (fibre product)
- type:
- cartoon
- credit:
- Marshall, Lady Ann
