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Stages of Emergency - Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Paperback)
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In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western
nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack
through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages
of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis
investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War
civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be
rehearsing nuclear war, she provides a comparative study of the
civil defense maneuvers conducted by three NATO allies-the United
States, Canada, and the United Kingdom-during the 1950s and 1960s.
Delving deep into the three countries' archives, she analyzes
public exercises involving private citizens-Boy Scouts serving as
mock casualties, housewives arranging home protection, clergy
training to be shelter managers-as well as covert exercises
undertaken by civil servants.Stages of Emergency covers public
education campaigns and school programs-such as the ubiquitous
"duck and cover" drills-meant to heighten awareness of the dangers
of a possible attack, the occupancy tests in which people stayed
sequestered for up to two weeks to simulate post-attack living
conditions as well as the effects of confinement on interpersonal
dynamics, and the British first-aid training in which participants
acted out psychological and physical trauma requiring immediate
treatment. Davis also brings to light unpublicized government
exercises aimed at anticipating the global effects of nuclear war.
Her comparative analysis shows how the differing priorities,
contingencies, and social policies of the three countries
influenced their rehearsals of nuclear catastrophe. When the Cold
War ended, so did these exercises, but, as Davis points out in her
perceptive afterword, they have been revived-with strikingly
similar recommendations-in response to twenty-first-century fears
of terrorists, dirty bombs, and rogue states.
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