Kenneth D. Rose, "One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture"
English | ISBN 10: 0814775225 | 2001 | PDF | 368 pages | 3,6 MB
"This fascinating and illuminating study ably traces Civil Defense from Bert the Turtle's school drills in the 1950s to backyard family shelters in the early sixties. As Kenneth Rose insightfully shows, Americans, panicked over Cold War tensions and the threat of thermonuclear incineration, talked inordinately about fallout shelters, but few were ever built.