This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical frame

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the

What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization