Author: David Monteyne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816669759
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.
Fallout Shelter
Author: David Monteyne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816669759
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816669759
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War.
National Fallout Shelter Program
Author: United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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The Family Fallout Shelter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"In an atomic war, blast, heat, and initial radiation could kill millions close to ground zero of nuclear bursts. Many more millions-everybody else-could be threatened by radioactive fallout. But most of these could be saved. The purpose of this booklet is to show how to escape death from fallout. Everyone, even those far from a likely target, would need shelter from fallout. Your Federal Government has a shelter policy based on the knowledge that most of those beyond the range of blast and heat will survive if they have adequate protection from fallout." -Author's description.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"In an atomic war, blast, heat, and initial radiation could kill millions close to ground zero of nuclear bursts. Many more millions-everybody else-could be threatened by radioactive fallout. But most of these could be saved. The purpose of this booklet is to show how to escape death from fallout. Everyone, even those far from a likely target, would need shelter from fallout. Your Federal Government has a shelter policy based on the knowledge that most of those beyond the range of blast and heat will survive if they have adequate protection from fallout." -Author's description.
Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Basements
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Basements
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Buildings with Fallout Shelter
Author: United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
One Nation Underground
Author: Kenneth D. Rose
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814775233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience 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 war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814775233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Why some Americans built fallout shelters—an exploration America's Cold War experience 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 war over living under communism, what's perhaps most striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters. Tracing the ways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of national resolve, or rather encourage political and military leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war? Investigating the role of schools, television, government bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in fascinating detail—including a detailed tour of the vast fallout shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon—One Nation, Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War experience.
Bunker
Author: Bradley Garrett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501188569
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Thought-provoking and eerily prescient, bunker offers a whirlwind tour of "prepper" communities around the world, In the United States alone, nearly twelve million people are prepared to Survive for thirty days without access to food, water, or power. Millions more have started prepping for the sorts of emergencies-blackouts, wildfires, civil unrest-that they hear about in the news every day. Bradley Garrett crossed four continents to meet preppers building panic rooms and backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, stuffing go-bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile "bugout" vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He's taken the pulse of a new global movement and returned with a brilliant, original, and deeply disturbing diagnosis of the way we now live. Whenever social and political systems fail to produce credible narratives of stability, Garrett argues, prepping is a rational response. And those who live in dread-of the next pandemic, of nuclear brinksmanship, or of an accelerating climate crisis-are responding to it predict-ably, reasonably even, by hunkering down. Book jacket.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501188569
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Thought-provoking and eerily prescient, bunker offers a whirlwind tour of "prepper" communities around the world, In the United States alone, nearly twelve million people are prepared to Survive for thirty days without access to food, water, or power. Millions more have started prepping for the sorts of emergencies-blackouts, wildfires, civil unrest-that they hear about in the news every day. Bradley Garrett crossed four continents to meet preppers building panic rooms and backyard survival chambers, stockpiling supplies, stuffing go-bags, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile "bugout" vehicles, and burrowing deep into the earth. He's taken the pulse of a new global movement and returned with a brilliant, original, and deeply disturbing diagnosis of the way we now live. Whenever social and political systems fail to produce credible narratives of stability, Garrett argues, prepping is a rational response. And those who live in dread-of the next pandemic, of nuclear brinksmanship, or of an accelerating climate crisis-are responding to it predict-ably, reasonably even, by hunkering down. Book jacket.
Fallout Shelters in Terminal Buildings
Author: United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Fallout Shelter Program
Author: United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Family Shelter Designs
Author: United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description