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Author : Laura McEnaney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2000-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691001383
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Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Civil defense
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Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822339700
DIVCultural history of the nuclear civil defense excercises in the US, Canada, and the UK, which emphasizes the performative aspect of the staged drills and evacuations./div
Author : Edward M. Geist
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1469645262
The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Civil defense
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Author : United States. National Security Resources Board
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Civil defense
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Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Civil defense
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Author : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : David Monteyne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816669759
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN :
This textbook has been prepared by the Office of Civil Defense Staff College, Battle Creek, Michigan, for use as a student reference manual in the Civil Defense Management course. The chapters are keyed to corresponding sessions of the course. They are intended to summarize concisely the major concepts related to the subject area identified by the chapter title. They are not intended to be a comprehensive or exhaustive discussion of each subject. Students are urged to read the references cited at the end of each chapter for more detailed information. This textbook is for training purposes only and is not a policy guide document.