"This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War" by David F. Krugler
Раlgrаvе Mасmillаn | 2006 | ISBN: 1403965547 9781403983060 | 261 pages | PDF/epub | 2/1 MB
This book tells the history of nuclear age urban planning, civil defense, and continuity of government programs in one of the nation's most critical Cold War targets: Washington, D.C. Spanning the years 1940 to 1962, This Is Only a Test uses Washington's often conflicting identities–capital, city, and symbol–to explore the connections between the attempted dispersal of vital government offices to distant suburban sites, the District's Office of Civil Defense, and the creation of the secretive Federal Relocation Arc.