6. Civil Defense, 1949-1982.
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| 1014 ALBRIGHT, GIFFORD H., Editor. Planning Atomic Shelters: A Guidebook for Architects and Engineers. 196 pages. Illustrated. Oblong 4to, decorative spiral-bound wrappers. University Park: Penn. State Press. 1961
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| 1015 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Bibliography Medical Aspects of Civil Defense. 40 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers, in library binder. Chicago: AMA. circa 1953
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| 1016 BLAKE, LARRY. "The Complacent Americans." With: Robert Connelly as the American, who failed, both himself and his Country. And Jack F. Fuller, Office of Civil Defense,
Coordinator City of Los Angeles. 12-inch long-playing phonograph record, in the original pictorial jacket. Los Angeles: Cee
Dee Records. 1961
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A "mirrorphonic" recording on transparent red vinyl. The first side is a fictional nuclear attack on Los Angeles, with attendant
sound effects. Side 2 comprises an extended plea for a stepped-up civil defense effort.
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| 1017 BOND, HORATIO. A "First Book" on Fire Safety in the Atomic Age. 72 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Boston: National Fire Protection Association. 1952
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| 1018 CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Protection from the Atomic Bomb. 6 leaves. Illustrated. 12mo, pictorial self-wrappers. Boston: Civil Defense Agency. 1950
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| 1019 CRUIT, RONALD L., & ROBERT L. Survive the Coming Nuclear War: How to Do It. 208 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Stein & Day. 1982
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| 1020 DAVIS, WATSON, et al. Atomic Bombing. How to Protect Yourself. By Science Service. 186 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Wise. 1950
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| 1021 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE. OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE. Personal and Family Survival. Civil Defense Adult Education Course. Student Manual. 127 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed wrappers. (Washington, D.C.: USGPO). 1966
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Loosely inserted, a form letter from the Bureau of the Census, relating to "the recent Military Home Fallout Protection Survey,"
USGPO, 1967.
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| 1022 FAIRLAMB, JAMES R. Nuclear Survival Manual. BOSDEC - The Concrete Curtain. 187 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Butler, N.J.: Drexel Winslow & Farrington. 1963
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A detailed manual on the construction and use of reinforced concrete shelters.
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| 1023 FRANK, PAT. How to Survive the H-Bomb - and Why. 160 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1962
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Amusing in its naivete. Sample advice: "[During a nuclear attack] stop at the first filling station and fill up with gas.
. . if possible, use your credit card. . .Don't annoy or fluster people. They will certainly be jittery. . . ."
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| 1024 GERSTELL, RICHARD. How to Survive an Atomic Bomb. 149 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. New York: Bantam Books. 1950
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"The first post-Hiroshima civil-defense manual." -Boyer, p. 315.
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| 1025 GRAY, DWIGHT E. & JOHN H. MARTENS. Radiation Monitoring in Atomic Defense. 122 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Van Nostrand. 1951
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| 1026 GREAT BRITAIN. HOME OFFICE. Civil Defense. Manual for Basic Training. Volume II. Atomic Warfare. 61 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed stapled wrappers. London: HMSO. 1950
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| 1027 HESLEP, CHARTER. Mobilizing Radio and Television. (For delivery at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 1951 at 10th Annual Conference on Station Problems, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, Oklahoma.) 22 leaves. Original typescript for the speech with manuscript corrections. 4to, printed on one side only.
Norman, Oklahoma. 1951
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Covers the role of radio and television in the event of an atomic attack against the United States. Heslep was then Chief
of the Radio-Television Branch, Public Information Service, Atomic Energy Commission.
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| 1028 HESLEP, CHARTER. Radio's Role in Defense. (Prepared for delivery at annual dinner of Tennessee Broadcasters Association, Nashville, Tenn., December 6, 1950.) Original
typescript for the speech. 12 leaves, printed on one side only. 4to, unbound, stapled. Nashville. 1950
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Discussion of the role of radio in the event of an atomic attack against the United States.
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| 1029 HOEGH, LEO A. "H-Bomb Survival: What Can We Do?" IN: Today's Health, Volume 37, Number 1, pp. 36-41. 72 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Chicago: American Medical
Association. January 1959
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The author was the first Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization and of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
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| 1030 KEARNY, CRESSON H. Nuclear War Survivial Skills. 230 pages. Illustrated. 4to, printed wrappers. Scottsdale, Arizona: NWS Research Bureau. 1980
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| 1031 KINDALL, SYLVIAN G. Total Atomic Defense. 224 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Richard R. Smith. 1952
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In-depth plan for civil defense of U.S. cities through population dispersal and relocation of industries to perimeters, to
be implemented with 15 billion dollars in federal aid. Never caught on.
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| 1032 KING, CAPTAIN E. RICHARD. "Survival in Nuclear Warfare." 33 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Summit, N.J.: CIBA Pharmaceutical. 1962
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Comprises Clinical Symposia, Volume 14, Number 1.
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| 1033 (LAURENCE, WILLIAM L.). "We Are Not Helpless." How we can Defend Ourselves Against Atomic Weapons. A Series of Nontechnical articles Reprinted from the New York Times.
47 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. FIRST EDITION. (New York Times). 1950
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| 1034 MAWRENCE, COL. MEL & JOHN CLARK KIMBALL. You Can Survive the Bomb. 194 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. 1961
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| 1035 MELMAN, SEYMOUR. No Place to Hide. Fallout Shelters-Fact and Fiction. 206 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New York: Grove Press. 1962
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Contributors include Herman Kahn, Erich Fromm, Norman Cousins, Lester Grinspoon, and many others.
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| 1036 NEW HAMPSHIRE-VERMONT HOSPITALIZATION AND PHYSICIAN SERVICES. Survival Under Atomic Attack. The Official U.S. Government Booklet. 32 pages. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. N.p. 1950
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| 1037 NEWSWEEK CLUB AND EDUCATIONAL BUREAUS. "Civilians: Vital Link in Defense." 19 pages. 4to, decorative wrappers. New York: Newsweek. 1951
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Comprises Platform for December 1951.
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| 1038 NEW YORK STATE. Report of Committee on Fallout Protection to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. February 15, 1960. 66 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial wrappers. (Albany: State of New York). 1960
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| 1039 O'BRIEN, GLENN. "I Remember Civil Defense." How we Survived the Apocalypse. Pp. 63-66, 75-78 & 90-101. IN: High Times, May 1977. 114 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial
wrappers showing a civil defense class in a 1950's grade school. New York: Trans-High Corporation. 1977
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Excellent and very funny history of the civil defense programs of the 'fifties.
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| 1040 OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION. Clay Masonry Family Fallout Shelters. 16 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1960
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| 1041 OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION. Individual and Family Survival Requirements. 10 pages. 4to, printed self-wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO, November. 1959
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| 1042 OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION. The Family Fallout Shelter. 32 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial self-wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1959
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| 1043 OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE. STATE OF CALIFORNIA. Survival Under Atomic Attack. 32 pages. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. California State Printing Division. October 1950
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| 1044 OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE PLANNING. Civil Defense for National Security. Report to the Secretary of Defense. 301 pages. 17 charts, mostly folding. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1949
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| 1045 PRENTISS, AUGUSTIN M. Civil Defense in Modern War. A Text on the Protection of the Civil Population against A.B.C. Warfare (Atomic. Bacterial. Chemical). 429 pages. Illustrated.
8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1951
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| 1046 PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES FOR CIVILIAN POPULATIONS. Proceedings of the Symposium held at Washington, D.C. April 19-23, 1965. 357 pages. 4to, decorative wrappers. N.p.: NAS. 1965
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"General Remarks" by Eugene P. Wigner.
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| 1047 RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH AND CIVIL DEFENSE (Fourth National Public Health Engineering Conference) March 27-30, 1951. Sponsored by the Engineering and Industrial Experiment
Station. 107 pages. 4to, printed wrappers. Gainesville: Florida Engineering and Industrial Experimental Station. 1951
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| 1048 SEVERUD, FRED N. & ANTHONY F. MERRILL. The Bomb, Survival and You. Protection for People, Buildings, Equipment. 264 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Reinhold. 1954
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| 1049 SMITH, MARTIN A. & WILLIAM E. ELIASON. The Family Survival Handbook. 302 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. FIRST EDITION. New York: Belmont Books. 1961
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"The first paperback ever compiled as a complete encyclopedia of protection in the Nuclear Age."
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| 1050 SPENCER, L.V. "Structure Shielding Against Fallout Radiation from Nuclear Weapons." 134 pages. Illustrated. 4to, printed wrappers. Washington: NBS. 1962
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Comprises National Bureau of Standards Monograph 42.
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| 1051 SUPRON, L.F. & F.P. ZVEREV. Medical and Civil Defense in Total War. Edited by Professor A.P. Mukhin. 406 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Jerusalem: IPST. 1961
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Translation of the Russian book: Ministerstov zdravookhraneniya BSSR. Minsk, 1959
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| 1052 SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN PROBLEMS IN THE UTILIZATION OF FALLOUT SHELTERS. Held at the National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C. 11-12 February 1960. 234 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington,
D.C.: NAS/NRC. 1960
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| 1053 SZILARD, LEO. The Shelter Hoax and Foreign Policy. 96 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. New York: Marzani & Munsell. 1961
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Essays by Szilard, Carl Marzani, Field-Marshall Montgomery & Fred Warner Neal.
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| 1054 TOWN OF FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT. Survival Under Atomic Attack. 32 pages. 12mo, printed self-wrappers. Farmington. circa early 1950's
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| 1055 U.S. CONGRESS. Civil Defense-1961. Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Eighty-Seventh Congress
First Session. August 1-9, 1961. 554 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1961
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Testimony of Herman Kahn, Robert McNamara, and others.
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| 1056 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE. In Time of Emergency. A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack. 92 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. (Washington, D.C.: USGPO). 1968
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| 1057 U.S. FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION. Battleground U.S.A. An Operations Plan for the Civil Defense of a Metropolitan Target Area. 117 pages. 21 large folding maps of an imaginary
city named "Battleground." 4to, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. 1957
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| 1058 U.S. FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION. Cue for Survival. Operation Cue. A.E.C. Nevada Test Site May 3, 1955. 162 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Washington,
D.C.: USGPO. 1956
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| 1059 U.S. FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION. Fire Effects of Bombing Attacks. 42 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. August 1952
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Relates in large part to incendiary effects of atomic bombs.
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| 1060 U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. Civil Defense Information for Food and Drug Officials. 188 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USFDA. 1955
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| 1061 U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. Civil Defense Information For Food and Drug Officials. Compiled and Edited by Lowrie M. Beacham, Jr. Second Edition. 221 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USFDA. December 1956
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| 1062 U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY RESOURCES BOARD. United States Civil Defense. Health Services and Special Weapons Defense. 260 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Washington, D.C.: USGPO. December 1950
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Mostly radiological defense and atomic warfare.
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| 1063 U.S. OFFICE OF CIVIL AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION. Clay Masonry Family Fallout Shelters. 16 pages. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial self-wrappers. Washington, D.C.: USOCDM. 1960
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| 1064 USAEC. Civil Defense Against Atomic Warfare. A selected reading list. Prepared for the National Security Resources Board. 24 pages. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. Washington,
D.C.: USAEC. March 1950
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| 1065 WAKEFIELD, DAN. "Good-by New York. New York Prepares for Annihilation." IN: Esquire, August 1960. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Chicago. 1960
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A devastating analysis of the futility of Civil Defense in protecting urban populations from nuclear attack and of the wastefulness
of New York City's Civil Defense spending ($92,188 for armbands, buttons, and pins; $166,869 for dog tags for school children,
etc., etc.).
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| 1066 WASKOW, ARTHUR L. & STANLEY L. NEWMAN. America in Hiding. 160 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. New York: Ballantyne Books. 1962
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A paperback original. "A surprising and controversial look at the [fallout] shelter mania."
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| 1067 WOLTMAN, H.R. & E.C. GOODROW. Civil Defense Implications of Current and Future Urban Configurations. 343 pages. Illustrated. 4to, buckram. Los Angeles: Planning Research Corporation. 1963
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