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- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Jean Asam, US citizen who grew up in New Jersey, USA, 1950-1960, relating to the US 'duck and cover' civil defence drills in school to protect children against nuclear attack, [1953-1959]; apprehension and fear in the USA over the possibility of nuclear war and an invasion by the USSR, [1953-1959]; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the construction of public fall out shelters in the USA, [1953-1959]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the impact of the Korean War on the US population, 1950-1953; the US/Soviet space race, 1957-[1988]. 14pp
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