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Paper cups and a Confederate Flag
Civil Defense and the Deep South in the 1950s
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Civil defense should include spiritual civil defense"
The role of religious organizations in preparing for and recovering from nuclear war, 1951-1956
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Take me to your shelter, leader!"
Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!
 • Alex Wellerstein
"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"
Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war
 • Alex Wellerstein
The Retreaters
A brief history of Preppers, part 2
 • Alex Wellerstein
Nuclear families
The imagery of the "family" in fallout shelter pamphlets, 1959-1961
 • Alex Wellerstein
Civil Defense and Preppers
A brief history of Preppers, part 1
 • Alex Wellerstein
"When I go to my grave, my head will be high"
Bob Dylan's little-known protest song against Civil Defense from 1962
 • Alex Wellerstein
The Occasion Instant, 1961
What can be learned from how people responded to false alarms about nuclear war in the late 1950s?
 • Alex Wellerstein
Survival of the Relocated Population of the U.S. after a Nuclear Attack, 1976
The surprising secret to surviving a nuclear war is... to not be near the bombs when they go off
 • Alex Wellerstein
The fate of cities
Building a video game model for the impact of a large-scale nuclear war on American cities
 • Alex Wellerstein
A Possible Chapter in American History
Is this the most honest graph made for public consumption by a government Civil Defense agency? (Yes, it is.)
 • Alex Wellerstein
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