This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides information to shelter occupants, can keep them busy and calm during nuclear armageddon. This film was produced as the U.S. Government began to shift from promoting privately-owned "family" fallout shelters to the concept of large, public shelters.

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A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...
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