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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 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. Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in detail - including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbour the entire US Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon - this book goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2494286 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages