This is only a Test
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This is only a Test

How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War

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This is only a Test

How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War

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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defence and continuity of government programs in one of the nation's most critical Cold War targets: Washington, D.C.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
9781403983060
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Urban Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. A Nuclear Weapons Primer
  7. 1 By the Bomb's Imaginary Light
  8. 2 The Promise and Politics of Dispersal
  9. 3 The District Defends Itself
  10. 4 Downtown, Out of Town, or Underground?
  11. 5 Apathy and the Atom
  12. 6 The Eisenhower Way
  13. 7 Practice Makes Perfect
  14. 8 Capital Confusion
  15. 9 Land of the Blind
  16. 10 The Satchel Has Been Passed…
  17. Postscript
  18. Source Abbreviations
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. Blank Page
  22. Blank Page