One nation underground : the fallout shelter in American culture / Kenneth D. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1946-

Series:

American history and culture (New York University Press)

American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fallout shelters--Social aspects--United States.

Fallout shelters.

Nuclear warfare--Social aspects--United States.

Nuclear warfare.

Cold War--Social aspects--United States.

Cold War.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1960's and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A New Age Dawning; 2 The Nuclear Apocalyptic; 3 Morality and National Identity at the Shelter Door; 4 Taking Government, Business, and Schools Underground; 5 The Theory and Practice of Armageddon; 6 The Shelters That Were Not Built, the Nuclear War That Did Not Start; Postscript; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814769195

0814769195

9780814776780

0814776787

9780585480596

0585480591

OCLC:

779828289