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Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked
Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked in Bloomington, MN
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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,
sheds light on the growing distrust between the U.S. government and its subjects in postwar America.
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,
sheds light on the growing distrust between the U.S. government and its subjects in postwar America.
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