ISBN:
0814775225
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 313 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
American history and culture
Parallel Title:
Print version One Nation Underground : The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Fallout shelters Social aspects
;
Nuclear warfare Social aspects
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Cold War Social aspects
;
United States - Social conditions - 1945-
;
Electronic books
;
United States Social conditions 1945-
Abstract:
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 1960s and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear w
Description / Table of 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 ThatDid Not Start; Postscript; Notes; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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