Armageddon insurance : civil defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991 /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | New Cold War history.
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| Summary: | 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 to withstand the ultimate catastrophe. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469645247 1469645246 9781469645254 1469645254 |