EBOOK Bracing for Armageddon:Why Civil Defense Never Worked

In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.S.          government's civil defense plans from World War II through the end of the Cold War.          Based on government documents, peace organizations, personal papers, scientific        reports, oral histories, newspapers, and popular media, her book chronicles the        operations of the various federal and state civil defense programs from 1945 to        contemporary issues of homeland security, as well as the origins and development of        the massive public protest against civil defense from 1955 through the 1980s. At a        time of increasing preoccupation over national security issues, Bracing for        Armageddon sheds light on the growing distrust between the U.S. government and its        subjects in postwar America.