Scenarios for survival: Representations of nuclear war in American and Soviet civil defense manuals, 1954--1972
by Geist, Edward Moore, M.A., THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2008, 47 pages; 1452977

Abstract:

This thesis examines the way in which American and Soviet civil defense manuals conceptualized the nuclear threat for ordinary citizens during the height of the nuclear arms race. The two programs were dramatically different in the way they perceived the nuclear threat, and as a result created radically different programs to combat it. Whereas American civil defense was obsessed with the prospect of a Soviet sneak attack and perturbed by the prospect of home front militarization for civil defense, its Soviet counterpart regarded nuclear war as a foreseeable catastrophe and reveled in its role as a militarized effort at mass mobilization. As a result of these differences, the Soviet Union was able to create a far more formidable system of civil defense propaganda than the United States.

 
AdviserDonald J. Raleigh
SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
SourceMAI/ 46-05, p. , Jul 2008
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsAmerican history; Russian history
Publication Number1452977
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