Download or read book Civil Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1058 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 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Civil Defense U S A written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Defense Adult Education written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 126 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 and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highlights of the US Civil Defense Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 44 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 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 11.
Download or read book Labor s Supporting Role in National State and Local Civil Defense written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of the Civil Defense Program written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Defense U S A 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 Labor s Supporting Role in State County and Local Civil Defense written by United States. Office of Civil Defense. Labor Liaison Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Background of Civil Defense and Current Damage Limiting Studies written by Joseph Romm and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of civil defense administration precedes analysis of nuclear attack conditions and the influence of protective measures. Damage limitation procedure is explained in terms of--(1) blast effects, (2) radiation doses, (3) geographical fallout distribution patterns, and (4) national shelter needs. Major concept emphasis relates to--(1) lifesaving potential of improved strategic defense programs, (2) functional protection factor determination for shelters, and (3) geographic and demographic characteristics of hypothetical attack situations. Extensive substantive data and diagrams are included.
Download or read book Welfare Institutions written by United States. Bureau of Family Services and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is addressed to those responsible for the management of public and voluntary welfare institutions, small or large, for children or adults. It is part of the nationwide effort to establish fallout shelters for all citizens. It suggests protection preparations for the considerable segment of citizens living under institutional care.
Download or read book Information Bulletin written by United States. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968-05-13 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
