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 pione...

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1. Verfasser: Geist, Edward (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:The new Cold War history
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 323 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781469645254

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