"Well... we've made the summit! But let's face it... we'll never knock the bastard off!" 18 April 2010

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Title

"Well... we've made the summit! But let's face it... we'll never knock the bastard off!" 18 April 2010

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Collection

TAPUHI

Description

In the first of two frames a group of men climb to the top of what looks like a mountain peak where they plant a flag and announce 'Well we've made the summit! But let's face it..' In the second frame they are seen as tiny figures reaching the top of an enormous missile with a nuclear symbol on it and one of them says '..we'll never knock the bastard off!' The 'knock the bastard off' comment was made by Sir Edmund Hillary when he reached the summit of Mount Everest but the cartoon refers esse...

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Date created

2010

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22746536

Locations

United States

Related subjects

Obama, Barack Hussein II, 1961- / Hillary, Edmund Percival (Sir), 1919-2008 / Nuclear weapons / Nuclear warfare / Nuclear disarmament / United States

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