One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

by Kenneth D. Rose and Kenneth Rose

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0814775225

ISBN13:9780814775226

Release Date:August 2001

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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