Thirty Years Of Beautiful Missile Ads

Weapons are products just as much as a mobile phone or condom. They have marketing teams who make advertisements who make people buy weapons. How To Be A Retronaut put up a collection of scanned print ads. Don Draper meets Doomsday.

The art of the ads is wonderfully vintage–spanning 1947 to 1974–and illustrates a strange crossroads of tech, politics, killing, money, marketing, and a million other things that comprise the American military machine. I have this tingling in my head now… after looking at these I think I’ll go out and buy a new ICBM. [Retronaut via BoingBoing]