One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture. (Reviews).

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

One Nation Underground: The Fallout S he her in American Culture. By Kenneth D. Rose (New York: New York University Press, 2001. x plus 300 pp.).

One Nation Underground joins a substantial shelf of books dealing with the American homefront in the early Cold War. Kenneth Rose focuses on the era from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, with an introductory discussion of the early postwar years and a concluding chapter on the period after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, when nuclear fears and civil-defense preoccupations faded. A ...

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