Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defence and continuity of government programs in one of the nation's most critical Cold War targets: Washington, D.C.
Autorentext
David F. Krugler is Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Platteville.
Inhalt
Introduction A Nuclear Weapons Primer By the Bomb's Imaginary Light The Promise and Politics of Dispersal The District Defends Itself Downtown, Out of Town, or Underground? Apathy and the Atom The Eisenhower Way Practice Makes Perfect Capital Confusion Land of the Blind The Satchel Has Been Passed . . . Postscript Source Abbreviations Acknowledgments
Titel
This is only a Test
Untertitel
How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War
Autor
EAN
9781403983060
ISBN
978-1-4039-8306-0
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
31.03.2006
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.94 MB
Anzahl Seiten
248
Jahr
2006
Untertitel
Englisch
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