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Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : UOM:39015039752897
Author : Andrew Paul Burtch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822404
What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.
Author : Laura McEnaney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691001388
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Author : Marie Cronqvist,Rosanna Farbøl,Casper Sylvest
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030842819
This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative and transnational dimensions. The current interest in creating disaster-resilient societies demands new histories of civil defence. Historical contextualization is essential in order to understand what is at stake in preparing, devising, and implementing forms of preparedness, protection, and security that are specifically targeted at societies and citizens. Applying the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to civil defence history, the chapters of this volume cover a range of new themes, from technology and materiality to media, memory, and everyday experience. The book underlines the social embeddedness of civil defence by detailing how it both prompted new forms of social interaction and reflected norms and visions of the ‘good society’ in an age where nuclear technology seemed to hold the key to both doom and salvation.
Author : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : MINN:30000010556094
Author : Ralph L. Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : MINN:31951D03743963R
Author : Michael Mabee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974320944
According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security in 2017, millions of Americans-perhaps the majority of the population-would die if the electrical grid went down for a significant period of time. Not only is this disturbing fact is well known to Congress, it is also well known to America's enemies. The United States today remains extremely vulnerable to a wide variety of man-made and natural threats, such as electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, cyber-attack, geomagnetic disturbance (GMD), terrorism, weather and many other threats. In November of 2017, the FEMA Administrator noted in his testimony to Congress that "we do not have a culture of preparedness in this country." The majority of Americans are unaware of the magnitude of the threats to the electric grid and our communities are completely unprepared. We have seen from recent disasters such as hurricanes Katrina, Maria, Harvey and Irma that communities can be on their own for a long period of time until help arrives - and these are regional disasters where massive outside resources are still available. Here is the fatal flaw of the emergency management system in the United States: it depends on our ability to bring outside resources into a disaster area. But what if the majority of the country was the disaster area? What if cities and towns across the country were on their own for a long period of time? Survival will be a local issue. The cavalry will not be coming. The real key to having prepared and resilient communities lies in the communities having a civil defense plan and being prepared for a worst-case scenario, such as a national-scale power outage. This book is about taking pre-disaster mitigation to the next level, so that your town can be ready for any disaster, large or small. It is possible for a town to survive if the grid goes down long term. But only if a few of its citizens act now. This book takes you through the steps to prepare your town for a worst-case national disaster. And in being prepared for a worst-case scenario, you and your town can be prepared for anything from a minor power outage to a hurricane to an electromagnetic pulse, solar flare or cyber-attack taking out the entire power grid. This is the Civil Defense Book!
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822389637
In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be rehearsing nuclear war, she provides a comparative study of the civil defense maneuvers conducted by three NATO allies—the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—during the 1950s and 1960s. Delving deep into the three countries’ archives, she analyzes public exercises involving private citizens—Boy Scouts serving as mock casualties, housewives arranging home protection, clergy training to be shelter managers—as well as covert exercises undertaken by civil servants. Stages of Emergency covers public education campaigns and school programs—such as the ubiquitous “duck and cover” drills—meant to heighten awareness of the dangers of a possible attack, the occupancy tests in which people stayed sequestered for up to two weeks to simulate post-attack living conditions as well as the effects of confinement on interpersonal dynamics, and the British first-aid training in which participants acted out psychological and physical trauma requiring immediate treatment. Davis also brings to light unpublicized government exercises aimed at anticipating the global effects of nuclear war. Her comparative analysis shows how the differing priorities, contingencies, and social policies of the three countries influenced their rehearsals of nuclear catastrophe. When the Cold War ended, so did these exercises, but, as Davis points out in her perceptive afterword, they have been revived—with strikingly similar recommendations—in response to twenty-first-century fears of terrorists, dirty bombs, and rogue states.
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D037440026
Author : Edward M. Geist
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469645261
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. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
Author : James Eayrs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487596545
In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964). Like Volume I, Volume II rejects as outmoded and misleading the traditional division of national security policy into two compartments, one called foreign policy, the other, defence policy. Like Volume I, Volume II is meant to demonstrate that the military and diplomatic components of national security policy are, and ought to be, indissolubly combined, in study and analysis, as well as in formulation and execution. The emphasis in Volume II is mainly on the diplomatic: the tempo and importance of Canadian diplomacy steadily increase during the period with which it is concerned. That period opens with the Italian war aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. It closes in the late summer and early fall of 1940, as the twilight war becomes a total war.
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense Planning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : UCAL:B4240729
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : UOM:39015002293887
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120729335
Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : SRLF:A0010810497
