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  2. Duck and cover - Wikipedia

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    The dubious assumption that "only the cockroaches" would survive the post-war fallout environment was frequently used in an attempt to criticize Duck and Cover during the height of the Cold War, contextually at a time when discussion of a total war involved the much greater US-Soviet arsenal of nuclear weapons that were then in existence.

  3. Protect and Survive - Wikipedia

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    Louise Lawrence's children's novel Children of the Dust refers to one of the inner refuge designs mentioned in the leaflets and to the public information films and radio tapes. On television, Protect and Survive was lampooned in the television series The Young Ones episode "Bomb."

  4. Survival Under Atomic Attack - Wikipedia

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    Copy of Survival Under Atomic Attack issued by the Cleveland office of Civil Defense.. Survival Under Atomic Attack was the title of an official United States government booklet released in 1951 by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office.

  5. Outline of the Cold War - Wikipedia

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    Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.

  6. Air Raid Precautions - Wikipedia

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    Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s and 30s, with the Raid Wardens' Service set up in 1937 to report on bombing incidents. [ 1 ]

  7. The Plutonium Files - Wikipedia

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    The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War is a 1999 book by Eileen Welsome. It is a history of United States government-engineered radiation experiments on unwitting Americans, based on the Pulitzer Prize -winning series Welsome wrote for The Albuquerque Tribune .

  8. Cold-weather warfare - Wikipedia

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    Cold-weather warfare, also known as cold-region warfare, arctic warfare or winter warfare, encompasses military operations affected by snow, ice, thawing conditions, or cold, both on land and at sea, as well as the strategies and tactics used by military forces in these situations and environments.

  9. The Cold War: A World History - Wikipedia

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    Presentation by Westad on The Cold War at The Wilson Center, September 8, 2017, C-SPAN This article on a nonfiction book about the Cold War is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .