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Besides Protest Stamps, postcards have been a good medium for demonstrating against nuclear weapons or to promote disarmament. This section contains a number of them from various sources.In particular, from the 1970s through the 1990s, a Canadian artist named Carl Chaplin created a series of paintings called Art Duco that depicted the nuclear destruction of major world cities. His purpose was %u201cto point out the horror of what would happen to all of mankind in a nuclear war.%u201d Although his paintings were large canvases, Chaplin had the images reproduced onto postcards, then gave them away by the thousands for free. When his cards of a mushroom cloud over Disneyland started to circulate, with Mickey Mouse, Tinkerbell, and a mouse-eared youth looking on in terror, Disney%u2019s lawyers were not amused, and Chaplin was pressured to turn over all the postcards in his possession.There was also a series of protest postcards published by the One World Artist Cooperative in New Haven Connecticut. The group produced as many as 30 cards, all in 1982, on various themes besides nuclear weapons, such as environmental justice and politics. While most were created by different individuals, some artists are represented on more than one card.ProtestPostcards