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Autor:
Edward M. Geist
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 historica
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
This chapter tracks the development of U.S. and Soviet civil defense from the beginning of the 1960s until the mid-1970s. The 1961 Berlin Crisis compelled both superpowers to reinvigorate their civil defense programs. Soviet civil defense was transfe
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0005
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
This introduction describes the scope of the book and its methodological approach. It defines key concepts such as “civil defense,” “garrison state,” and “agitation” that are employed in the subsequent chapters. It also provides an outlin
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0001
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
This chapter examines the development of civil defense in the United States and Soviet Union up until the early 1950s. The predecessors of civil defense first appeared during the 19th century, but it only fully blossomed with the introduction of stra
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0002
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
This chapter describes the evolution of the superpowers’ civil defense programs from the mid-1970s until the end of the Cold War. In the mid-1970s, the contrast between the USSR’s extensive civil defense effort and its moribund U.S. counterpart l
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0006
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
This conclusion describes some general findings about the historical evolution of civil defense in the two superpowers over the course of the Cold War. Neither U.S. nor Soviet officials regarded their civil defense efforts as successful, but the shor
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0007
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0007
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
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
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.001.0001
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
This chapter examines the way in which the discovery of the fallout effects of thermonuclear weapons effected the development of American and Soviet civil defense during the mid-late 1950s. The realization that the fallout from large hydrogen bombs c
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0004
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Armageddon Insurance
Prior to the introduction of thermonuclear weapons in the mid-1950s, civil defense to protect civilian populations appeared relatively plausible. Despite these apparently favourable conditions, both U.S. and Soviet civil defense failed to actualize t
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https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645254.003.0003
Autor:
Edward M. Geist
Publikováno v:
Slavic Review. 74:104-126
Ever since the accident that destroyed unit 4 of the Chernobyl’ Nuclear Power Plant on April 26,1986, became public knowledge, the Soviet government's response to this catastrophe has been the subject of bewilderment and withering criticism. The ex
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https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.74.1.104
