civil defense

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. 

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."

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.