Bomb shelters remade for life after the Cold War.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)Gerlin, Andrea
People built bomb shelters in their backyards. They practiced attack drills in schools and other public places. The 1950s and 1960s saw an epidemic of popular films that horrified moviegoers with depictions of nuclear devastation and mutant creatures. In these and other ways, the Cold War ...
Civil Defense, Military Bases and Telecommunications. Initially our emphasis will be on facilities, manufacturing plants, shelters and systems involved in supporting the Cold War effort in the CT
and they had to improvise. In Cold War America, building bomb shelters ended up as a boon for the swimming pool construction industry. In both cases, bomb shelters proved to be a test of engineering ingenuity and DIY gumption, attempting to save lives in the face of difficult-to-quantify ...
Tag - Cold WarCulture, Travel & Sport Exploring Tbilisi’s forgotten Soviet-era underworld Soso Dzamukashvili Underneath the streets of Tbilisi lies a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters and sinister prisons about which most locals know very little. For much of this... Read More ...
Bomb shelters Foreign Policies: 1. Korean War 2. Arms Race 3. Truman Doctrine 4. Eisenhower Doctrine Actors and writers protest the Hollywood Blacklist. A 1950s era bomb shelter 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended ...
war. Thus the rehearsals for defence (the gas-masks, the shelters, the drills) were ‘the materialization of a skillfully evoked nightmare’ in which fear consumed the ideal of a civilized, cultivated life before the first bombs fell. The ‘war-metropolis’, he concluded, was a ‘non-city...
officials began to advocate bomb shelters. Davis also outlines the decline of CD credibility among citizens in the three NATO countries. The bomb-shelter debate (partly about whether shelter owners would be willing to "Gun thy Neighbor" in the event of war) and the Cuban Missile Crisis in ...
During an era when people were building back yard bomb shelters, a Camp Parks test involved a 100-person fallout shelter. To determine its habitability, volunteers lived inside the bunker for up to 14 days--the time it would take fallout to dissipate. One test involved inmates from the nearb...
Includes sub-sections on educating the public, government defense, and home shelters. Civil Defense audio & film, and several complete bomb shelter pamphlets are included Atomic Culture [enter] The atomic era as reflected in toys, books, household items, and other pop culture...