Shallo, Andrew Anthony (sold)
Andrew Anthony (Andy) Shallo (March 13, 1922 - March 11, 1979) was an American artist. Born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Shallo served for eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps. He joined the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1948 as a retoucher in the editorial art department and remained with the Inquirer for thirty-one years. Over the course of his career, he earned a reputation as the finest retoucher in Philadelphia. Shallo also created numerous news maps and was also active artist.
The ICBM and the US nuclear response concept!
Published less than four months after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, this 1961 Andrew Shallo graphic map of Asia illustrates U.S. nuclear response capabilities and strategies. Based in the doctrine of 'Mutually Assured Destruction', Shallo's map illustrates a world on the the edge of destruction. Before the proliferation of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), which emerged in the late 1950s, the U.S. relied on airplane-based response systems. A fleet of B-52s (still flown by the U.S. Air Force) and B-47s, both illustrated to the right of the globe, acted as launch platforms for missiles armed with nuclear warheads. The B-52s flew out of bases in the United States and would be refueled midair, while the B-47s were based in Guam and western Europe. In the 1960s, 1/3 of Strategic Air Command's bomber force was permanently on 24-hour alert, with those crews not already airborne ready to take off within fifteen minutes. (more details)