One Nation Underground : : The Fallout Shelter in American Culture /

One Nation Underground : : The Fallout Shelter in American Culture / / Kenneth D. Rose.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Rose, Kenneth D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 A New Age Dawning
  • CHAPTER 2 The Nuclear Apocalyptic
  • CHAPTER 3 Morality and National Identity at the Shelter Door
  • CHAPTER 4 Taking Government, Business, and Schools Underground
  • CHAPTER 5 The Theory and Practice of Armageddon
  • CHAPTER 6 The Shelters That Were Not Built, the Nuclear War That Did Not Start
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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