Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer The cover art of Peter Tosh's final studio album, the 1987 No Nuclear War, is a combination of protest and triumph, of fear and defiance. The globe is partially submerged in a sea of fire, the mushroom of a nuclear explosion covering Africa and consuming from North America upwards, yet the bare-chested, dreadlocked figure stands like a conqueror on the United States and Soviet missiles which caused the mayhem. The dreadlocked man has on a gas mask, yet stands with legs splayed and arms outspread in a pose reminiscent of a vampire, not seared by the flames. And, imprinted in red against the white 'Nuclear' in the title...
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