Title Awaiting Armageddon : how Americans faced the Cuban Missile Crisis / Alice L. George

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description xxiii, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm Contents The shadow of death -- Bunker mentality -- Ready or not -- The looking glass -- Politics and strategy -- Children of the Cold War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-232) and index Subject Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Social aspects. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Public opinion. Civil defense -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States. Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520 United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140469 LC no. 2003002760 ISBN 0807828289 cloth

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