The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture

by Guy Oakes (Author), Guy Oakes (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $181.30

  This book is a provocative account of the ties between civil defence, national security, and public support for nuclear deterrence in the early Cold War. Oakes argues that while civil defence films and drills told Americans it was possible to survive a nuclear attack, the primary purpose of civil defence was to provide a moral foundation for nuclear deterrence.