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Author : United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Home Protection Exercises written by United States. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822339700
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Stages of Emergency written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Scheibach
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672121
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Protecting the Home Front written by Michael Scheibach and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated." Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, auxiliary police, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national organizations. The author examines the diverse roles they filled to promote homeland protection and preparedness at a time when atomic war was an imminent threat.
Author : Laura McEnaney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843553
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
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 : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389630
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Stages of Emergency written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be rehearsing nuclear war, she provides a comparative study of the civil defense maneuvers conducted by three NATO allies—the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—during the 1950s and 1960s. Delving deep into the three countries’ archives, she analyzes public exercises involving private citizens—Boy Scouts serving as mock casualties, housewives arranging home protection, clergy training to be shelter managers—as well as covert exercises undertaken by civil servants. Stages of Emergency covers public education campaigns and school programs—such as the ubiquitous “duck and cover” drills—meant to heighten awareness of the dangers of a possible attack, the occupancy tests in which people stayed sequestered for up to two weeks to simulate post-attack living conditions as well as the effects of confinement on interpersonal dynamics, and the British first-aid training in which participants acted out psychological and physical trauma requiring immediate treatment. Davis also brings to light unpublicized government exercises aimed at anticipating the global effects of nuclear war. Her comparative analysis shows how the differing priorities, contingencies, and social policies of the three countries influenced their rehearsals of nuclear catastrophe. When the Cold War ended, so did these exercises, but, as Davis points out in her perceptive afterword, they have been revived—with strikingly similar recommendations—in response to twenty-first-century fears of terrorists, dirty bombs, and rogue states.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Home Protection Exercises written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy Oakes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199762406
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Imaginary War written by Guy Oakes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense and the official mythmaking of the Cold War will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and culture.
Author : Andrew D. Grossman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135956081
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Neither Dead Nor Red written by Andrew D. Grossman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leadership Guide written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Education
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Teacher's Manual for the Civil Defense Adult Education Course written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication constitutes a part of the Civil Defense Adult Education Teacher's Manual being prepared for the U.S. Office of Education to accompany the May, 1963 edition of SM-311, Personal and Family Survival."--p. i.
Author : Michael Scheibach
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604207
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book "In Case Atom Bombs Fall" written by Michael Scheibach and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to survive the expected blasts, residual fallout, and radiation poisoning. Duck and cover drills, bomb shelters, and evacuation plans became an integral part of every citizen's daily life. This book provides a sampling of civil defense publications issued by government agencies and organizations during this era. Arranged thematically, the book includes sections covering the impact and power of the atomic bomb, radioactive fallout, women and the home, the importance of being prepared, civil defense in schools, fallout shelters, evacuation plans, and, finally, the call for "peace or ... else."
Author : United States. Congress Senate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3038 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 3038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations for 1954, Hearings Before ... 83-1, on H.R. 5471 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Preston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460918735
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Disaster Education written by John Preston and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ‘Duck and Cover’ in the 1950s, when American schoolchildren were instructed to hide beneath their desks in the event of nuclear attack to contemporary campaigns against pandemic flu, education campaigns have been used to prepare the general public for apocalyptic events. Governments have made use of various media from films, leaflets and television to the internet to inform, inspire and scare populations. Forms of disaster education also permeate popular culture with films and television programmes illustrating survival techniques from dealing with terrorist attacks in ‘24’ to thwarting zombie apocalypse in ‘The Walking Dead’ and ’28 Days Later’ . Using critical race theory and whiteness studies the book argues that information about disasters has always, tacitly or overtly, prioritised the survival of certain groups of citizens above others. Drawing on examples from the UK and the US, from past and contemporary disaster education and popular culture, it considers that rather than being kitsch, naïve and ephemeral, such campaigns are central to the way in which states define survival, life and death. The book will be of interest to educationalists, historians, sociologists and cultural theorists as well as those working in emergency planning, public health and communications.
Author : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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 1952 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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:
