One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American by Kenneth D. Rose

By Kenneth D. Rose

For the half-century length of the chilly battle, the fallout preserve used to be a interestingly American preoccupation. brought on in 1961 via a hawkish speech by means of John F. Kennedy, the fallout guard controversy—"to dig or to not dig," as Business Week positioned it on the time—forced many americans to grapple with deeply anxious dilemmas that went to the very center in their self-image approximately what it intended to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and an ethical human being.

Given the much-touted nuclear probability during the Nineteen Sixties and the truth that four out of five american citizens expressed a choice for nuclear warfare over dwelling below communism, what is probably such a lot extraordinary is how few American truly outfitted yard shelters. Tracing the ways that the fallout guard turned an icon of pop culture, Kenneth D. Rose additionally investigates the troubling matters the shelters raised: might a post-war international also be worthy dwelling in? may safeguard building ship the Soviets a message of nationwide get to the bottom of, or really motivate political and army leaders to imagine by way of a "winnable" war?

Investigating the position of colleges, tv, executive bureaucracies, civil safeguard, and literature, and wealthy in attention-grabbing detail—including a close journey of the mammoth fallout look after in Greenbriar, Virginia, outfitted to harbor the whole usa Congress within the occasion of nuclear armageddon—One kingdom, Underground is going to the very center of America's chilly conflict experience.

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