Wolf Vostell used a widely circulated photograph of a Boeing B-52, built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War–era deterrence missions, and also used in the escalating Vietnam conflict. Such an image surely resonated with Vostell, who as a teenager had witnessed Allied bombings in Wupperthal and in the Ruhr. But here instead of bombs, the plane drops lipstick tubes, pointing to the consumerist fallout of capitalism in a way that either eroticizes munitions, or militarizes commodities.