Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked: The Myth of Civil Defense in the Nuclear Age Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked: The Myth of Civil Defense in the Nuclear Age Book

Bracing for Armageddon : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195183191 : 0195183193 : 27 Apr 2006 : Presents a survey of the US government's civil defense plans from World War II. This book 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 and to hide the astronomical expenses of programs to protect the political elite.Read More

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    In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.S. government's civil defense plans from World War II through the end of the Cold War. Based on government documents, peace organizations, personal papers, scientific reports, oral histories, newspapers, and popular media, her book chronicles the operations of the various federal and state civil defense programs from 1945 to contemporary issues of homeland security, as well as the origins and development of the massive public protest against civil defense from 1955 through the 1980s. At a time of increasing preoccupation over national security issues, Bracing for Armageddon sheds light on the growing distrust between the U.S. government and its subjects in postwar America.

  • 0195183193
  • 9780195183191
  • Dee Garrison
  • 27 April 2006
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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