Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991

by Edward M. Geist

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469645254
• ISBN13: 9781469645254
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"