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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > AIRPOWER/Cold War - Its literally the first two lines of their hymn
 
Stabby_McBitchslap
Apr 7, 2008

Naramyth posted:

DOOO EEEETTT! :fap:

The people up in Special Collections couldn't find that government issued "how to build a bomb shelter" booklet I was talking about. :(

Which booklet was it? I have a copy of one called in time of EMERGENCY (Civil defense handbook H-14, published March 1968) that I stole from the Boy Scouts. The first half of it is about surviving a nuclear attack (Shelter plans, stock, first aid, etc) and the second half is for natural disasters.

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Stabby_McBitchslap
Apr 7, 2008

Effective-Disorder posted:

So there are a few old civil defense primers on video, the latest two I've found being "In Time of Emergency" and "Protection in the Nuclear Age". Did Civil Defense films take a dive after that, or are there more recent productions?

"In Time of Emergency": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bvk47-WSsg

"Protection in the Nuclear Age": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j6K1dh53Uk

The DCPA was folded into FEMA at about the same time (1978) "Protection in the Nuclear Age" was made. So, I imagine that FEMA just didn't see the point in making instructional films about nuclear war, or maybe it was more of a focus on natural disasters that took the stage at that point?

Of more recent vintage, there is this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmCYGdmcNs) creepy video describing emergency broadcast system procedures, but it's a private production. Did the government give up on civil defense by the 80's? I mean, the shelter program started by JFK puttered out before that, but did we just institutionally sweep civil defense under the rug at some point, so to speak?

Ha, I actually have the "In Time of Emergency" handbook, I swiped it from the Boy Scouts. It always stuck me as being way too optimistic about my chances of surviving in a shelter made from a bookcase and a kid swimming pool filled with sand, but it's still pretty cool.

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