civil defense

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/24/2022
  

  Has the "Duck and Cover" World Returned

  by Tom Engelhardt

  The generation that came of age during the Cold War may have insight on the return of the nuclear threat, but "duck and cover" won't cut it. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/29/2021
  

  Blackness and the Bomb

  by Erica X. Eisen

  "Throughout the atomic age, civil defense authorities demanded the active participation of Black citizens whom their measures failed to protect."

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• 8/2/2020
  

  The Battle of The Atlantic has Lessons for Fighting COVID-19

  by Marc Wortman

  Pleasure-seekers and shoreline business owners on the east coast of the United States rejected voluntary calls to dim their lights in 1942. German U-Boat crews devastated shipping and commerce until compulsory blackouts were enforced.