Author: United States. Office of Civil DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Winning Designs for Fallout Shelters in Shopping Centers
Author: United States. Office of Civil DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
National Fallout Shelter Design Competition-community Center Awards
Author: American Institute of ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Fallout Protection in the Design of New Industrial Facilities
Author: United States. Business and Defense Services AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Fallout Shelter
Author: David MonteynePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452925437
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
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.
Annual Report for Fiscal Year ... Including the Reports of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force
Author: United States Department of DefensePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
Highlights of the Architect & Engineer Activities in Shelter Development
Author: United States. Office of Civil DefensePublisher:
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Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Architects and engineers exert the greatest single influence on building design and construction. Thousands of new buildings are being built each year in which the life saving potential could have been increased if attention had been focused on the problem during the initial design phase. Special knowledge is required to accomplish this - knowledge of the nature of radioactive fallout and how to design structures to provide shielding against it.
One Nation Underground
Author: Kenneth D. RosePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814775233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience 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.
Handbook
Author: United States. Office of Civil DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Report of the Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description