Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.306
Object Name
Postcard
Title
PWR
Date
1980-1989
Description
A postcard featuring a design by Dan Pearce, titled "No thanks, Uncle Sam". In it, Uncle Sam, the personification of the USA often seen on military recruitment advertises, is smiling whilst handing down a nuclear power plant to a group of people on the ground. The group are holding their hands out in protest and are carrying a banner with a smiling sun, the international symbol of the anti-nuclear movement. A skull lurks in the sky above Uncle Sam. This postcard was made in response to the proposed development if Sizewell 'B', a nuclear energy reactor in East Anglia.
The back of the postcard reads: "Nuclear power is uneconomic, unsfae, and unecessary. / For details of the campaign against Sizewell 'B'- Britain's first proposed Pressurised Water Reactor- or for a sample copy of Sizewell Reactions contact East Anglian Alliance Against Nuclear Power"
