Download or read book Fallout Shelter written by David Monteyne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons, he argued, architectural expertise could “preserve us from decimation.” In Fallout Shelter, David Monteyne traces the partnership that developed between architects and civil defense authorities during the 1950s and 1960s. Officials in the federal government tasked with protecting American citizens and communities in the event of a nuclear attack relied on architects and urban planners to demonstrate the importance and efficacy of both purpose-built and ad hoc fallout shelters. For architects who participated in this federal effort, their involvement in the national security apparatus granted them expert status in the Cold War. Neither the civil defense bureaucracy nor the architectural profession was monolithic, however, and Monteyne shows that architecture for civil defense was a contested and often inconsistent project, reflecting specific assumptions about race, gender, class, and power. Despite official rhetoric, civil defense planning in the United States was, ultimately, a failure due to a lack of federal funding, contradictions and ambiguities in fallout shelter design, and growing resistance to its political and cultural implications. Yet the partnership between architecture and civil defense, Monteyne argues, helped guide professional design practice and influenced the perception and use of urban and suburban spaces. One result was a much-maligned bunker architecture, which was not so much a particular style as a philosophy of building and urbanism that shifted focus from nuclear annihilation to urban unrest.

Download or read book One Nation Underground written by Kenneth D. Rose and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the Dice Throw Event written by Cresson H. Kearny and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Shelters written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shelters written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Domestic Nuclear Shelters written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nuclear Shelters written by R. N. Ormerod and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Shelters in Terminal Buildings written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Domestic Nuclear Shelters written by Great Britain. Home Office and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waiting for the End of the World written by Richard Ross and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of photographs of bomb shelters around the world. Various sites people have built to protect themselves from the unthinkable

Download or read book Guides for Advertising Fallout Shelters written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fallout Protection written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet attempts to inform people of the dangers of a thermonuclear attack and provide them with guidance they can use to protect themselves.

Download or read book Fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shelter Plans Anthology 2 written by Guy Montag and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Shelter Designs Since the dawn of the Cold War in the 1950's people have sought ways to protect themselves from the specter of global thermonuclear war. Both the private sector and the U.S. government responded with plans for home bomb/fallout shelters. In Volume Two we document more classic Dept. of Defense plans, Atomic Energy Commission, and even Dept of Agriculture shelters designs intend for farmers and dairymen. Most include plan drawings, material lists, and basic construction details. Plans in this volume include: ⦁ A.E.C. Group Shelter Report ⦁ Dept. of Defense Family Shelters (H-7) ⦁ DEPT of Agriculture Plans: Farm Shelter #910 Dairy barn fallout shelter #943 Bunker type shelter for beef cattle #947 Shelter for Six People #948 Potato Storage/Shelter #949 Storm / Fallout Shelter #950 Barn shelter for 50 cows #989 Be prepared with your own shelter; for protection from tornadoes OR worst case...even fallout. ALSO: See our other books on fallout shelters, "Shelter Plans Anthology 1" and "Expedient Shelter Construction".

Download or read book Fallout Protection for Homes with Basements written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civil Defense fallout Shelter Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Industrial Architecture Fallout Shelters written by Bill Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: