The Cold War Vault

EP39: Lessons in Imagined Disasters, Part 2 - Doomtown


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Doomtown. Ah, my home address. This time, we look at the rise and fall of civil defense in the United States, with all of the virtual nuclear wars at the center. From irradiating cans of peaches to tens of millions of Americans evacuating the cities, the civil defense project truly was a lesson in imagined disaster. 

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