Bracing for Armageddon : why civil defense never worked

著者

• Garrison, Dee

書誌事項

Bracing for Armageddon : why civil defense never worked

Dee Garrison

Oxford University Press, 2006

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This timely book is a concise survey of the U.S. government's civil defense plans from World War II to the present, including Cold War detonations, Reagan-era Star Wars, and contemporary issues of homeland security. Garrison argues that the true purpose of federal civil defense was to legitimize deterrence policy and the arms race through false assurances to the masses that they could survive nuclear war and to hide the astronomical expenses of programs to protect the political elite. In examining the popular reaction to civil expense plans, she reveals how the public, recognizing the suicidal nature of nuclear war, ridiculed and rejected civil defense, crippling plans for its implementation.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA76766191
• ISBN:
  • 0195183193
• LCCN: 2005051559
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 242 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : UA947
  • DC22 : 363.35/0973
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Civil defense -- United States
  • LCSH : Nuclear warfare
  • LCSH : United States -- Military policy