Bracing for Armageddon : why civil defense never worked / Dee Garrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrison, Dee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil defense--United States.

Civil defense.

Nuclear warfare.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text presents a survey of the US government's civil defense plans from World War II. It argues that the purpose of federal civil defense was to legitimize deterrence policy and the arms race through false assurances to the masses that they could survive nuclear war.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Interviews; Introduction: Civil Defense and the Nuclear Dilemma: The Cold War Tragicomedy; Prologue: The H-Bomb Changes Everything; One: "Alert, Not Alarm": The First Ten Years, 1945-1955; Two: The Battle to Inform the Public, 1952-1957; Three: Holding the Lid On, 1957-1960; Four: Kennedy's Civil Defense Gap, 1960-1964; Five: MAD, NUTS, and Civil Defense, 1963-1980; Six: The Fantasy Dies: The Reagan Years; Epilogue: From Bush to Bush: Final Gasp to Phoenix Rising; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-992408-2

1-4294-0293-8

9786610559299

0-19-804040-7

1-280-55929-2

OCLC:

271577788