A Fellow Just Isn't Safe ANYWHERE Anymore!
A horned, bandaged devil sits among falling rocks and atom symbols under the words 'Underground A-Test', clutching his head with a pitchfork beside him. The cartoon argues that nuclear testing now reaches even the underworld; fear-appeal is a weak fit, the tone being comic and the harm a joke about scale.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- September 21, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743250 (NAID 5743250).
Text on the object
UNDERGROUND A-TEST JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
