Atomic Nightmares Create Survival Fantasies

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Atomic Nightmares Create Survival Fantasies Cold War Bomb Shelters Atomic Nightmares Create Survival Fantasies

Japan: Atomic Effects With the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world became aware of the destructive power and effects of nuclear war By the early 1950’s most Americans had a growing, and graphic, understanding of atomic weapons and the dangers of radiation

Hiroshima Before and After

Atomic Babies: Birth Defects

Nagasaki

More Unsettling Images The U.S. continued atomic tests and developed the even more destructive hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) Americans were exposed to images of these tests and statistics such as blast radius damage and wind patterns that would spread radioactive fallout

Effects of nuclear explosion Go to http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/film.aspx?ID=20 to view video.

Nuclear World Destruction By the 1950’s both superpowers (USSR and USA) had nuclear weapons and, by the 1960’s, delivery systems to send them across continents and oceans For the first time, complete world annihilation became a real possibility

Elaborate systems were developed to give warning before a nuclear attack Some hoped to survive by protecting themselves, and their families, by creating protective shelters to survive the explosion and effects of radiation A Feeling of Safety

Civil Defense Propaganda Spreads Fear and Paranoia U.S. Civil Defense used ads to try to prepare the public for possible attack and use of shelters School children routinely practiced “duck and cover” drills where desks would supposedly help provide protection

Bunker Mentality Governments, and individuals, searched for a feeling of safety and control Bomb shelters seemed to offer the possibility of surviving a nuclear war Public and private bomb shelters were built throughout the Cold War

Public Shelters U.S. Civil Defense began assigning basements of public buildings as bomb shelters Some of these shelters were stockpiled with food, water, medicine, etc. There was never enough shelter space, or supplies, for all citizens

Shelter in the basement of the courthouse in Ottawa, IL Shelter in the basement of the Roxy Theatre in Ottawa, IL