This is only a Test : How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War / by D. Krugler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krugler, David F., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

United States--History.

United States.

History, Modern.

Political science.

Military history.

Urban Sociology.

US History.

Modern History.

Political Science.

Military History.

Local Subjects:

Urban Sociology.

US History.

Modern History.

Political Science.

Military History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defence and continuity of government programs in one of the nation's most critical Cold War targets: Washington, D.C.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Nuclear Weapons Primer

1 By the Bomb's Imaginary Light

2 The Promise and Politics of Dispersal

3 The District Defends Itself

4 Downtown, Out of Town, or Underground?

5 Apathy and the Atom

6 The Eisenhower Way

7 Practice Makes Perfect

8 Capital Confusion

9 Land of the Blind

10 The Satchel Has Been Passed…

Postscript

Source Abbreviations

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-238) and index.

ISBN:

9786611369699

9781281369697

1281369691

9781403983060

1403983062

OCLC:

567962708