Artist: Gyorgy Pal. Year: 1967. Size: cca. 59 x 84 cm. Condition: Fine, light wear, small tears. Protection against radioactive materials on farms is a vintage Hungarian communist nuclear war defense propaganda poster from the 1960s. During the Cold War, an intense period between the Soviet Union and the United States and some other countries. This was one of the main causes that began the cold war, and perceived advantages of the adversary by both sides (such as the "missile gap" and “bomber gap”) led to large spending on armaments and the stockpiling of vast nuclear arsenals. Proxy wars were fought all over the world (e.g. in the Middle East, Korea, Vietnam) in which the superpowers' conventional weapons were pitted against each other. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, tensions decreased and the nuclear arsenal of both countries were reduced.