Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked

by Dee Garrison

Book Overview

In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.S. government's civil defense plans from World War II through the end of the Cold War. Based on government documents, peace organizations, personal papers, scientific reports, oral histories, newspapers, and popular media, her book chronicles the operations of the various federal and state civil defense programs from 1945 to contemporary issues of homeland security, as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195183193
• ISBN13: 9780195183191
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"