One Nation Underground

The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

Autor: Kenneth D. Rose

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For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccup...

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Autor

Kenneth D. Rose

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2004

Pagini

324

EAN

9780814775233

ISBN

0814775233

Enbook ID

04932359

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

448

Dimensiuni

151 x 229 x 18

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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.

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