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Book Synopsis Civil Defense, and American Tradition by : United States Civil and Defense Mobilization Office
Download or read book Civil Defense, and American Tradition written by United States Civil and Defense Mobilization Office and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil Defense Begins at Home by : Laura McEnaney
Download or read book Civil Defense Begins at Home written by Laura McEnaney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into the front line. The reliance on atomic weaponry as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy cast a mushroom cloud over everyday life. American citizens now had to imagine a new kind of war, one in which they were both combatants and targets. It was the Federal Civil Defense Administration's job to encourage citizens to adapt to their nuclear present and future. As McEnaney demonstrates, the creation of a civil defense program produced new dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against internal and external threats. Conflicts arose about the relative responsibilities of state and citizen to fund and implement a home-front security program. The defense establishment's resolution was to popularize and privatize military preparedness. The doctrine of "self-help" defense demanded that citizens become autonomous rather than rely on the federal government for protection. Families would reconstitute themselves as paramilitary units that could quash subversion from within and absorb attack from without. Because it solicited an unprecedented degree of popular involvement, the FCDA offers a unique opportunity to explore how average citizens, community leaders, and elected officials both participated in and resisted the creation of the national security state. Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, McEnaney uncovers the broad range of responses to this militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age. Her work sheds new light on the important postwar debate about what total military preparedness would actually mean for American society.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :544 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Civil Defense for National Survival ... by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Download or read book Civil Defense for National Survival ... written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resistance written by Jeff Biggers and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "powerful, urgent" narrative history of resistance campaigns throughout history and how they affect today's battles (Jeff Chang, author of We Gon’ Be Alright)––from the American Revolution and the defeat of fascism during WWII, to landmark battles for civil rights and the new movements for equity. Across cities, towns, and campuses, Americans are grappling with overwhelming challenges and the daily fallout from the most authoritarian White House policies in recent memory. In this inspiring narrative history, Jeff Biggers reframes today’s battles as a continuum of a vibrant American tradition. Resistance is a chronicle of the courageous resistance movements that have insured the benchmarks of our democracy––movements that served on the front lines of the American Revolution, the defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the defeat of fascism during World War II, and landmark civil rights and environmental protection achievements. Legendary historian Studs Terkel praised Biggers’s The United States of Appalachia as a "how–to book" in the tradition of the American Revolution. With Resistance, Biggers opens a new window into American history and its meaning today. In a recovery of unsung heroes, including Revolutionary forefather Thomas Paine, Resistance is a provocative reconsideration of the American Revolution, bringing alive the early struggles of Indigenous peoples and people of color, and immigration, women’s rights, and environmental justice movements. With lucidity, meticulousness, and wit, Biggers unfolds one of our country’s best–kept secrets: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every generation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority has defined our quintessential American story. "Resist we must, resist we will––and as this volume powerfully reminds us, in so doing we are acting on the deepest American instincts." ―Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1112 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Civil Defense by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Download or read book Civil Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prepping for a Suburban Or Rural Community by : Michael Mabee
Download or read book Prepping for a Suburban Or Rural Community written by Michael Mabee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans—perhaps the majority of the population—would die if the electrical grid went down for a significant period of time. And while this disturbing fact is well-known to Congress, it is also well-known to America's enemies. Little has been done to mitigate the threat. Iran, North Korea, terrorist groups, and others move forward in their capabilities to attack the power grid, and the United States today remains extremely vulnerable. Some individual Americans, known as preppers, have taken steps to prepare their families for such a disaster, but the real key to survival lies in small communities having a civil defense plan. A prepared community has a better chance of survival than a prepared individual. This book is about taking prepping to the next level, so that your town can be ready for any disaster, large or small. It is possible for a town to survive if the grid goes down long term. But only if a few of its citizens act now.This book is different from other books on prepping and emergency preparedness. Rather than focusing on individual survival, this book takes you through the steps to create a nonprofit civil defense organization which can help prepare your town for a worst-case national disaster. And in being prepared for a worst-case scenario, you and your town can be prepared for anything from a minor power outage to a hurricane to an electromagnetic pulse attack taking out the entire power grid.
Author :Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.). Homeland Security Task Force Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :130 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Defending the American Homeland by : Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.). Homeland Security Task Force
Download or read book Defending the American Homeland written by Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.). Homeland Security Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrorist attacks of September 11 struck at the very heart of the American homeland. It was a new form of total war in the age of terrorism, and it put all Americans on notice that the United States is dangerously vulnerable and that new means are urgently needed to strengthen the security of the homeland. The Heritage Foundation Homeland Security Task Force was formed days after the September 11 attacks to meet this urgent need. This comprehensive study incorporates the recommendations of the Task Force for securing a vulnerable America.--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Civil Defense, U.S.A.: Panel book by : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Download or read book Civil Defense, U.S.A.: Panel book written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Book Synopsis Annotated Civil Defense Bibliography for Teachers by : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Download or read book Annotated Civil Defense Bibliography for Teachers written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil Defense Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Download or read book Civil Defense Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defenseless Under the Night by : Matthew Dallek
Download or read book Defenseless Under the Night written by Matthew Dallek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Yet even before Pearl Harbor, Americans feared foreign invasions, air attacks, biological weapons, and, conversely, the prospect of a dictatorship being established in the United States. To protect Americans from foreign and domestic threats, Roosevelt warned Americans that "the world has grown so small" and eventually established the precursor to the Department of Homeland Security - an Office of Civilian Defense (OCD). At its head, Roosevelt appointed New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia; First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt became assistant director. Yet within a year, amid competing visions and clashing ideologies of wartime liberalism, a frustrated FDR pressured both to resign. In Defenseless Under the Night, Matthew Dallek reveals the dramatic history behind America's first federal office of homeland security, tracing the debate about the origins of national vulnerability to the rise of fascist threats during the Roosevelt years. While La Guardia focused on preparing the country against foreign attack and militarizing the civilian population, Eleanor Roosevelt insisted that the OCD should primarily focus on establishing a wartime New Deal, what she and her allies called "social defense." Unable to reconcile their visions, both were forced to leave the OCD in 1942. Their replacement, James Landis, would go on to recruit over ten million volunteers to participate in civilian defense, ultimately creating the largest volunteer program in World War II America. Through the history of the OCD, Dallek examines constitutional questions about civil liberties, the role and power of government propaganda, the depth of militarization of civilian life, the quest for a wartime New Deal, and competing liberal visions for American national defense - questions that are still relevant today. The result is a gripping account of the origins of national security, which will interest anyone with a passion for modern American political history and the history of homeland defense.
Book Synopsis Atomic Americans by : Sarah E. Robey
Download or read book Atomic Americans written by Sarah E. Robey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the national collective when faced with the priority of individual survival? What do nuclear weapons mean for transparency and accountability in government? What role should scientific experts occupy within a democratic government? Nuclear weapons created a new arena for debating individual and collective rights. In turn, they threatened to destabilize the very basis of American citizenship. As Sarah E. Robey shows in Atomic Americans, people negotiated the contours of nuclear citizenship through overlapping public discussions about survival. Policymakers and citizens disagreed about the scale of civil defense programs and other public safety measures. As the public learned more about the dangers of nuclear fallout, critics articulated concerns about whether the federal government was operating in its citizens' best interests. By the early 1960s, a significant antinuclear movement had emerged, which ultimately contributed to the 1963 nuclear testing ban. Atomic Americans tells the story of a thoughtful body politic engaged in rewriting the rubric of rights and responsibilities that made up American citizenship in the Atomic Age.
Book Synopsis Civil Defense Management Textbook by : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Download or read book Civil Defense Management Textbook written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Department of Defense and Homeland Security by : Timothy Mcateer
Download or read book The Department of Defense and Homeland Security written by Timothy Mcateer and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is quite possible that after the events of 11 September 2001, the roles and missions of the Department of Defense in the area of Homeland Security are destined for change. This monograph provides and examination of the legal, and traditional aspects of Homeland Security in the U.S. and the current framework for managing a domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incident. Understanding the past roles and missions of the DoD in regard to Homeland Security are relevant as the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) formulates a comprehensive national strategy for Homeland Security. Throughout the Nation's history, the American public has consistently equated Homeland Security with the Armed Forces. Immediately following the 11 September attacks there was confusion among many in the U.S. government as to which federal agency was responsible for Homeland Security. Several key members of the Senate Armed Services committee expressed concern over the current security framework and the DoD's supporting role in domestic Homeland Security. This monograph addresses these issues through an examination of the DoD's (Armed Forces) historical role in the defense of the nation as well as its role in domestic support operations. The monograph begins with a brief analysis of the emerging threats that the United States faces, and offers a proposed definition for Homeland Security. This is followed by an examination of the evolution of legal considerations when employing federal military forces in a domestic support capacity. It addresses the Posse Comitatus Act and recent refinements to the Act that circumvent its provisions in instances of clearly identified threats to the Nation's interests. The second chapter includes an analysis of Civil Defense and the DoD's participation in past Civil Defense missions. A chronology of Civil Defense in America is included beginning with post World War I activities up through the present time. This analysis illustrates that in time of crisis, when the public feels vulnerable, they look to the DoD for security. The monograph outlines the current DoD supporting role to both the FBI for Crisis Management and to the FEMA for Consequence Management during a WMD incident. The monograph argues that the current system is adequate and the DoD should not be designated as the LFA for WMD incidents. The monograph recommends the creation of a new Commander-in-Chief (CINC) for Homeland Security. This CINC should also be charged with the responsibility of developing the campaign for, and executing the global War on Terror. Additional recommendations include some minor changes to both Joint and Army doctrine in regard to Homeland Security. It also recommends that the DoD maintain a receptive attitude towards new domestic missions, advocating the temporary execution of non-traditional missions.
Book Synopsis Annual Report for ... of the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the President and the Congress of the United States of America by : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Download or read book Annual Report for ... of the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the President and the Congress of the United States of America written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report - Federal Civil Defense Administration by : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Download or read book Annual Report - Federal Civil Defense Administration written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
