One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

by Kenneth D. Rose and Kenneth Rose

Book Overview

Why some Americans built fallout shelters--an exploration America's Cold War experience

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814775225
• ISBN13: 9780814775226
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"