Hey, who knows anything about nuclear warfare and urban planning? @NuclearAnthro @CherylRofer
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The real question is "did they actually ever even do anything more than think about it" — it's harder to establish than you might think, other than a few very obvious examples (e.g. Abo Elementary School).
(In my experience the only people in the US gov't who think about the effects of nuclear war on American cities anymore are emergency management people and some public health people.)
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And even they probably prefer not to think about it too much.
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They're more interested in thinking about it these days than they have been in awhile. I've had a lot of interesting conversations. The question again is whether you move beyond talking/thinking and towards "doing" anything, which becomes trickier.
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FYI, the entire September 1951 issue of
@BulletinAtomic was devoted to a symposium on "Defense Through Decentralization." https://books.google.com/books?id=nA0AAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/Rq3SnIJsdV
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A significant portion of R.E. Lapp's "Must We Hide?" (1949) is devoted to decentralization as civil defense.https://www.amazon.com/Must-hide-Ralph-Eugene-Lapp/dp/B0007DP0ZU …
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Also, that bit in Errol Morris's "Fog of War" where bombed Japanese cities are superimposed with equivalent-sized U.S. cities is taken from that bookpic.twitter.com/scK99BkqEo
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And Lapp's version was (apparently) adapted from this annotated map in the 1945 “Third Report of the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces to the Secretary of War,” aka the Arnold Report after General "Hap" Arnold, head of Army Air Forces during WWII. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005496537;view=1up;seq=3 …pic.twitter.com/9nAy7qiBVW
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It also included basically the transposed-to-the-USA map as well. See here:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/03/13/map_interactive_visualizing_firebomb_damage_done_to_japan_during_wwii_through.html …
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