The Bomb for My Pillow

Links:

• Educator's Guide to CNN's COLD WAR series
  From September 1998 to April 1999 CNN aired a 24-part television series on the cold war.

• The Atomic Archive
  A commercial site which "explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb."

• Photos of Nuclear Explosions
  A collection from the U. S. Department of Energy, these photos may be used freely for educational purposes.

• Artists' Depictions of Nuclear Tests
  A collection of art depicting the nuclear test explosions at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, part of the art collection of the Naval Historical Center. The story of what happened to the people who lived on Bikini Atoll may be found at the Bikini Atoll website

• A Brief History of Civil Defense
  A brief history of civil defense can be found in the middle of this short article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

• Kennedy's Fallout Shelter Program
  A brief description by the Army Corps of Engineers of the fallout shelter program started by President Kennedy in 1961.

• Cold War Civil Defense Museum
  A website containing photos of many old civil defense posters and other information on civil defense during the cold war era.

• The Fallout Shelter
  An excerpt, with drawings, from a December, 1961 Department of Defense booklet Fallout Protection - What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attacks.

• The Family Fallout Shelter
  A digital copy of a 1959 U.S. government brochure which discusses the advantage of fallout shelters and gives plans for building your own fallout shelter in your basement.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis
  This site at the National Security Archive at George Washington University has many interesting documents, including declassified government papers, photographs, and audio clips.

If you have any other educational links to suggest, please email me,
cragland@umich.edu