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If we are attacked, let us be prepared: Canada and the failure of civil defence, 1945--1963.

机译：如果我们遭到攻击，请让我们做好准备：加拿大与1945--1963年的民防失败。

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During the early years of the Cold War, Canada created a civil defence organization to prepare Canadians for a possible nuclear attack. This enormous task required the cooperation of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. A key element to its success was persuading the public to incorporate the principles of preparation into everyday life. Through exhibits, exercises, and public appeals, Canada's civil defence agencies exhorted citizens to volunteer as air raid wardens, to stockpile essential supplies, and to build fallout shelters underground where they could wait out the nuclear storm. Drawing from the extensive records of the Department of National Defence, the Department of National Health and Welfare, the Emergency Measures Organization, along with other government and manuscript documents and media sources, this dissertation explains the evolution of Canada's CD policies and addresses the question of why governments, institutions, and the public consistently refused to make the preparations expected of them in the face of nuclear extinction.;Civil Defence proved to be a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful program. Its failure hinged on the nature of the CD relationship between the state and its citizenry, the inadequacies of government planning, and the balance of civil-military relations in Canada in the Cold War. In CD publicity, officials informed Canadians that their participation was a civic duty in the nuclear age, and equated community defence with guarding the values and freedoms associated with citizenship. Canadians rejected their prescribed obligation to support CD, some believing that an atomic defence was impossible, others arguing that the federal government or the armed forces should provide protection to civilians. The federal, provincial, and municipal governments could never agreed on the proper division of financial and political responsibility, which led to bitter debates that undermined the credibility of CD programs and confused the public. The Canadian military proved uninterested in assisting with CD, and, once enlisted by the federal government to lead national survival efforts, Canada's soldiers proved incapable of providing any meaningful support to the civilian population. As a result of all of these factors, Canadians were unconvinced of the efficacy of strategies proposed by governments for their protection, and Canada was completely unprepared to survive a nuclear war.
机译：在冷战初期，加拿大成立了一个民防组织，为加拿大人为可能的核袭击做准备。这项艰巨的任务需要联邦，省和市政府的合作。其成功的关键因素是说服公众将准备原则纳入日常生活。通过展览，演习和公众呼吁，加拿大的民防机构劝说市民自愿担任空袭看守，储存必需品并在地下建造辐射避难所，以便他们等待核暴。本文从国防部，国家卫生和福利部，紧急措施组织的广泛记录以及其他政府和手稿文件以及媒体资源中汲取了经验，从而解释了加拿大裁谈会政策的演变，并探讨了加拿大的裁谈会问题。为什么政府，机构和公众在面对核灭绝时始终拒绝进行他们期望的准备。；民防被证明是有争议的，最终还是失败的计划。它的失败取决于冷战期间国家与公民之间的裁谈会关系的性质，政府计划的不足以及加拿大的军民关系平衡。在裁谈会的宣传中，官员告知加拿大人，他们的参与是核时代的公民义务，并将社区防御等同于捍卫与公民身份相关的价值观和自由。加拿大人拒绝履行支持CD的规定义务，有些人认为不可能进行原子防御，而另一些人则认为联邦政府或武装部队应向平民提供保护。联邦，省和市政府永远无法就财务和政治责任的适当划分达成共识，这导致了激烈的辩论，削弱了CD计划的信誉，并使公众感到困惑。事实证明，加拿大军方对协助CD毫无兴趣，而且，一旦联邦政府要求其领导国民的生存工作，加拿大士兵便无力向平民提供任何有意义的支持。由于所有这些因素，加拿大人对政府提出的保护其战略的效力深信不疑，而且加拿大完全没有做好生存核战争的准备。

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    Burtch, Andrew Paul.;

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    Carleton University (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 Carleton University (Canada).;
  • 学科 History Canadian.;History Military.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 388 p.
  • 总页数 388
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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