Protesting Russian Bomb Tests

Protesting Russian Bomb Tests

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Protesting Russian Bomb Tests

1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0544
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 11/61 24) PROTESTING RUSSIAN BOMB TESTS, Japanese \ women wear placards saying, "We don't want to become \ human ashes" as they march before the Russian embassy \ in Tokyo. Some 3,000 demonstrators shouted "Khrushchev \ to the gallows" and "down with nuclear experiments." \ Credit: Rene Burri © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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