The Bomb for My Pillow

Links:

• CNN's COLD WAR series
  From September 1998 to April 1999 CNN aired a 24-part television series on the cold war, and created an online site to accompany the series. The online material seems to be unavailable now at the CNN website, but you can find some of it at preceeding link to the Wilson Center, where it seems to be archived for educators.

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

• Photos & Films of Nuclear Explosions
  A collection from the U. S. Department of Energy, available from the Nevada Test Site Library.

• 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 a short article by Peter Amacher in the May/June 2003 issue of 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. If this link fails, search for "Historical Vignette 35" on their site.

• 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 PDF 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, from the survivalring.org website.

• 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.

• When an A-Bomb Misfires
  This is a pdf copy of an article in the August 9, 1952 issue of Collier's magazine by Robert Cahn. It is probably the account that Gregg describes his sixth-grade teacher reading in class.

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