Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace,
prepare for war]
Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense
"Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape
The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority
The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat
Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent
Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship.