Article discusses the atmosphere of anxiety as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1960s that bred a need for preparedness in local communities and college campuses across western Oklahoma.
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Article discusses the atmosphere of anxiety as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1960s that bred a need for preparedness in local communities and college campuses across western Oklahoma.
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Abstract: As the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated in the 1960s, Americans responded to the threat of nuclear attack with the creation of community fallout shelters. Landry Brewer discusses this atmosphere of anxiety that bred a need for preparedness in local communities and college campuses across western Oklahoma.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.
Brewer, Landry.Sooner State Civil Defense: Oklahoma Community and College Campus Cold War Preparedness, 1960-68,
article,
Summer 2019;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2017466/:
accessed June 25, 2025),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.