Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace, -- prepare for war] -- Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense -- "Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape -- The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority -- The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat -- Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent -- Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship.
Summary:
"Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
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