Architectural historian David Monteyne, using archival, governmental, and popular sources, adds to the growing literature on Cold War architecture and design by providing an in-depth investigation into public fallout shelters, both real and aspirational. ![]() ![]() 1 A sustained effort by the US government to warn, encourage, and at times even cajole, citizens to participate in and support programmes of protection, in the form of fallout shelters, dominated the Cold War conversation. ![]() At a time of escalating Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the ‘imagination of disaster’ played out in the mass media throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, alerting Americans to the potentially deadly consequences not only of nuclear war, but also of a lack of preparedness.
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