1st Edition
Civil Defense In The United States Bandaid For A Holocaust?
By Thomas J. Kerr
Copyright 1983
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book traces the endeavor in U.S. to develop a means of protecting the people from the effects of nuclear war. It shows how the policies that have emerged are as much products of the political process as of weapons technology.
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- Civil Defense in Historical Perspective -- Civil Defense Programs in the Pre-Fallout Period -- Radioactive Fallout and a Reevaluation of Civil Defense -- The Development of the Civil Defense Shelter Policy -- Fadeout and Reemergence of Civil Defense: From Shelters to Crisis Relocation -- Bandaid for a Holocaust? The Critics of Civil Defense
Biography
Thomas J. Kerr is professor of political science at Central Washington University. He has served as a consultant to the Council on State Governments on state disaster preparedness legislation.
