Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.324
Object Name
Postcard
Date
1980
Description
This postcard is a photomontage by Peter Kennard. It shows a hand with a banknote, with the number one billion on it. This note is being passed to another hand which is skeleton like, and has three missiles in hand. The reverse of this reads, "The summer of 1981. unemployment has reached nearly 3 million. The problems of the inner cities are reaching crisis point. The Goverment confirms its intention of spending at least £6000 million on trident.
how much of the damage to britainâs inner cities has come from âenemy nuclear attack?"
