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Civil Defense During the Cold War
John Vachon for Look Magazine. The Durham family rehearses what it will do if an atomic bomb blasts their neighborhood, 1951.
In May 2017, the Museum’s Manuscripts and Ephemera collection accessioned a 1950s-era Civil Defense kit that was compiled during the Cold War by Mr. Ernest Thomsen, then a resident of Hollis, Queens. Given the current political climate, I took the kit out to discover how the nuclear threat was perceived at the time that Mr. Thomsen served as a Supervisor of the Building Control United of the Office of Civil Defense.
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