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Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Looking for Dr. Strangelove : the Cold War as archaeology
• Dead city : the metropolis targeted
• Survival City : this is only a test
• The domestication of doomsday : new buildings for the perilous atomic age
• The underground city : the architecture of disappearance
• Twentieth-century castles : missile silos in the heartland
• The secret landscape : some Cold War traces
• Postscript: September 11, 2001.

Author/Creator:

Vanderbilt, Tom

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Survival City: adventures among the ruins of atomic America [by Vanderbilt, T.]

Subjects:

West (U.S.) — Description and travel

West (U.S.) — History, Local

Vanderbilt, Tom — Travel — West (U.S.)

West (U.S.) — Social conditions — 20th century

Cold War — Social aspects — West (U.S.)

Nuclear weapons — West (U.S.) — Testing — History — 20th century

Landscapes — Social aspects — West (U.S.)

Cold War — Social aspects — United States

United States — Social conditions — 1945-

National characteristics, American

Vanderbilt, Tom

Cold War (1945-1989)

Since 1900

Social conditions

Local history

Social aspects

Nuclear weapons — Testing

Nuclear weapons

Landscapes — Social aspects

Landscapes

Travel

West United States

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225).

Physical Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

F595.3 .V36 2002

ISBNs:

1568983050

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2001007800

OCLC Numbers:

48620465