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This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C., Prepared for Nuclear War. By David F. Krugler. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xii, 248 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-4039-6554-4.)
In summer 2006, several metropolitan areas in the United States conducted drills to gauge their readiness for a terrorist attack. This revived concern with civil defense—renamed homeland security—provides the context for David F. Krugler's new study of civil defense efforts in Washington, D.C., during the early Cold War. Krugler provides a detailed study of the capital's efforts to protect itself from nuclear attack, while outlining lessons for the present. . . .
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