Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945-1991

Author/Contributor(s):	Geist, Edward M
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	01/07/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe"--