"Kenneth Rose's One Nation Underground explores U.S. nuclear
history from the bottom up--literally. . . . Rose deserves credit
for not trivializing this period of our history, as so many
retrospectives of the Cold War era have tended to do."
--"Journal of Cold War Studies"
"Important . . . One Nation Underground is an elegant account of
the issues involved in the nuclear age."
--"Pacific Northwest Quarterly"
"This is a fine compilation of a massive amount of research,
well founded in the existing literature, and presented in a
readable narrative."
--"Journal of Illinois History"
"A readable short history of the fallout shelters and the
broader political debate over civil defense. . . . Mr. Rose is a
good storyteller, and One Nation Underground is engagingly writen,
with an array of evocative photgraphs."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Rose writes well, with a good eye for the telling phrase and
revealing example."--"Journal of Social History"
For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout
shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961
by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter
controversy--"to dig or not to dig," as "Business Week" put it at
the time--forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing
dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what
it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral
human being.
Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960s and
the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for
nuclear war over living under communism, what's perhaps most
striking is how few American actually built backyard shelters.
Tracing theways in which the fallout shelter became an icon of
popular culture, Kenneth D. Rose also investigates the troubling
issues the shelters raised: Would a post-war world even be worth
living in? Would shelter construction send the Soviets a message of
national resolve, or rather encourage political and military
leaders to think in terms of a "winnable" war?
Investigating the role of schools, television, government
bureaucracies, civil defense, and literature, and rich in
fascinating detail--including a detailed tour of the vast fallout
shelter in Greenbriar, Virginia, built to harbor the entire United
States Congress in the event of nuclear armageddon--One Nation,
Underground goes to the very heart of America's Cold War
experience.
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