Armageddon Insurance : Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 /

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"The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pione...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geist, Edward (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Civil defense.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Guerre froide.
Protection civile > URSS > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cold War.
Civil defense > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Civil defense > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (338 pages).
ISBN:9781469645278

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