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0226846954
9780226846958
0226846946
9780226846941
Survival city :
[Book]
adventures among the ruins of atomic America /
Tom Vanderbilt.
London :
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
1 online resource (228 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225).
Contents; Introduction: Looking for Dr. Strangelove: The Cold War as Archaeology; 1. Dead City: The Metropolis Targeted; 2. Survival City: This is Only a Test; 3. The Domestication of Doomsday: New Buildings for the Perilous Atomic Age; 4. The Underground City: The Architecture of Disappearance; 5. Twentieth-Century Castles: Missile Silos in the Heartland; 6. The Secret Landscape: Some Cold War Traces; Postscript: September 11, 2001; Notes; Acknowledgments.
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On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten's stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. "A crucial and dazzling b.
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Survival city.
9780226846941
Vanderbilt, Tom-- Travel-- West (U. S.)
Vanderbilt, Tom.
Cold War-- Social aspects-- United States.
Cold War-- Social aspects-- West (U.S.)
Landscapes-- Social aspects-- West (U.S.)
National characteristics, American.
Nuclear weapons-- West (U.S.)-- Testing-- History-- 20th century.
HISTORY-- State & Local.
Landscapes-- Social aspects.
National characteristics, American.
Nuclear weapons-- Testing.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Travel.
United States, Social conditions, 1945-
West (U.S.), Description and travel.
West (U.S.), History, Local.
West (U.S.), Social conditions, 20th century.
United States.
West United States.
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