In Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War, David Monteyne traces the roots of contemporary fortress urbanism-"the militarization of everyday built environments due to overriding concerns for security, whether national, corporate, or personal"-to the civil defense campaign of the Atomic Age (xix). The author focuses on the collaboration between civil defense bureaucrats and commercial architects in the years when nuclear technology spawned an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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