Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Annual Progress Report Civil Defense Research Project
Author: Civil Defense: 1960-67
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Civil Defense: 1960-67; a Bibliographic Survey
Author: Army Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Civil Defense In The United States
Author: Thomas J. KerrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429725418
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book traces the endeavor in U.S. to develop a means of protecting the people from the effects of nuclear war. It shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology.
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the Dice Throw Event
Author: Cresson H. KearnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear bomb shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Armageddon Insurance
Author: Edward M. GeistPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469645262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
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.
Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense
Author: E.P. WignerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364258862X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
E.P. Wigner, one of the leading scientists involved in the early development of nuclear technology, had always in mind its political and social implications. In the 60s persuing his goal of a peaceful open world he began to develop the concept of Civil Defense against nuclear attacks. Looking back one might see this as an alternative to the concept of the Nuclear Shield. The present volume contains a selection of Wigner's writings on this subject. It is annotated by Conrad Chester.
Stages of Emergency
Author: Tracy C. DavisPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822389630
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
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.