Scheibach continues his exploration of Cold War education in American schools by focusing on elementary and secondary education during the first two decades of the atomic age. He shows how "t
To address the threat of an atomic-armed Soviet Union during the early days of the Cold War, President Harry Truman approved the Alert America exhibit as the most effective way to convey the destructi
Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration declared that “the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated.” Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at
Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous “atomic narratives”—books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, movies, and television programs—addressed the implications of the bomb. P
With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to surviv
