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Title: One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture by Kenneth D. Rose ISBN: 0-8147-7522-5 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Analysis
Comment: One Nation Underground is a fascinating analysis of the Cold War fallout shelter, the global and political milieu in which it emerged, and the pervasiveness in which the concept of protection from nuclear destruction permeated the American psyche.
I came to this book out of a recent, amusing interest in the many remaining Fallout Shelter signs still posted on public buildings in my community. Where I live, Fallout Shelter signs still appear on a derelict retail board-up in the central city, a tidy ten-unit men's rooming house, an unused police station, and numerous school buildings including my old grammar school where I learned how to "duck and cover" in the basement lunchroom.
Rose's book not only documents the American preoccupation and political developments, prompted by President Kennedy's 1961 speech, but the moral dilemmas as well. There was, after all,, a sense of doom at the prospects of thermonuclear obliteration.
The book is a serious, engrossing history that pulls from numerous sources and includes copious illustrations. It captures the fear, soul-searching, and debate during the first time in human history we faced the possibility of total destruction. This excellent book is a must read for anyone interested in American history, as well as the intellectually curious.
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Title: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt ISBN: 1568983050 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Doomsday Scenario: How America Ends by L. Douglas Keeney, Douglas L. Keeney ISBN: 076031313X Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Civil Defense Begins at Home by Laura McEnaney ISBN: 0691001383 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: 100 Suns by Michael Light ISBN: 1400041139 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War C by Nick J. McCamley ISBN: 0850527465 Publisher: Pen & Sword Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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