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Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book National Fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Monteyne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452925437
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Fallout Shelter written by David Monteyne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons, he argued, architectural expertise could “preserve us from decimation.” In Fallout Shelter, David Monteyne traces the partnership that developed between architects and civil defense authorities during the 1950s and 1960s. Officials in the federal government tasked with protecting American citizens and communities in the event of a nuclear attack relied on architects and urban planners to demonstrate the importance and efficacy of both purpose-built and ad hoc fallout shelters. For architects who participated in this federal effort, their involvement in the national security apparatus granted them expert status in the Cold War. Neither the civil defense bureaucracy nor the architectural profession was monolithic, however, and Monteyne shows that architecture for civil defense was a contested and often inconsistent project, reflecting specific assumptions about race, gender, class, and power. Despite official rhetoric, civil defense planning in the United States was, ultimately, a failure due to a lack of federal funding, contradictions and ambiguities in fallout shelter design, and growing resistance to its political and cultural implications. Yet the partnership between architecture and civil defense, Monteyne argues, helped guide professional design practice and influenced the perception and use of urban and suburban spaces. One result was a much-maligned bunker architecture, which was not so much a particular style as a philosophy of building and urbanism that shifted focus from nuclear annihilation to urban unrest.
Author : Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814769195
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book One Nation Underground written by Kenneth D. Rose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy—"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the time—forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Civil Defense Adult Education written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garrett M. Graff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147673545X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Raven Rock written by Garrett M. Graff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall Street Journal). Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold first Helicopter Squadron, codenamed “MUSSEL,” flies over the Potomac River. As obvious as the Presidential motorcade, most people assume the squadron is a travel perk for VIPs. They’re only half right: while the helicopters do provide transport, the unit exists to evacuate high-ranking officials in the event of a terrorist or nuclear attack on the capital. In the event of an attack, select officials would be whisked by helicopters to a ring of secret bunkers around Washington, even as ordinary citizens were left to fend for themselves. “In exploring the incredible lengths (and depths) that successive administrations have gone to in planning for the aftermath of a nuclear assault, Graff deftly weaves a tale of secrecy and paranoia” (The New York Times Book Review) with details "that read like they've been ripped from the pages of a pulp spy novel" (Vice). For more than sixty years, the US government has been developing secret Doomsday strategies to protect itself, and the multibillion-dollar Continuity of Government (COG) program takes numerous forms—from its potential to evacuate the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to the plans to launch nuclear missiles from a Boeing-747 jet flying high over Nebraska. Garrett M. Graff sheds light on the inner workings of the 650-acre compound, called Raven Rock, just miles from Camp David, as well as dozens of other bunkers the government built for its top leaders during the Cold War, from the White House lawn to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Palm Beach, Florida, and the secret plans that would have kicked in after a Cold War nuclear attack to round up foreigners and dissidents and nationalize industries. Equal parts a presidential, military, and cultural history, Raven Rock tracks the evolution of the government plan and the threats of global war from the dawn of the nuclear era through the War on Terror.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Civil Defense: Fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Family Shelter Designs written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Shelters written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Labor's Supporting Role in National, State, and Local Civil Defense written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Building Owners Role and Responsibilities in the National Fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Status of the Civil Defense Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Education
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Teachers Manual, Civil Defense Adult Education written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Fallout Shelters written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense. Labor Liaison Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Labor's Supporting Role in State, County, and Local Civil Defense written by United States. Office of Civil Defense. Labor Liaison Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cresson H. Kearny
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1510702059
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Nuclear War Survival Skills written by Cresson H. Kearny and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.
Author : Governors' Conference. Special Committee on Civil Defense
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book White House Conference on Fallout Protection, January 25, 1960 written by Governors' Conference. Special Committee on Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
