The World's Atomic Fever | VAN 総合諷刺雑誌 (Voluntary Satirical Magazine)

This striking illustration by Saso Yoshikuni was published in the satirical Japanese magazine VAN 総合諷刺雑誌, which emerged in the early postwar period under the Allied occupation. Produced in the years following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the image reflects the intense global anxiety surrounding the beginning of the Nuclear Age.