One Nation Underground : the Fallout Shelter in American Culture.

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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 grappl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Kenneth D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2001.
Temas:
Since 1900
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Nuclear warfare > Social aspects > United States.
Fallout shelters > Social aspects > United States.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Guerre nucléaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Abris antiretombées > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Nuclear warfare > Social aspects
Popular culture
Social aspects
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
United States
History
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Sumario: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 w.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (323 pages)
ISBN:9780814776780
0814776787

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