Village Learning Place

February 20, 2013

In 1950, the US government created the Federal Civil Defense Administration to prepare American citizens for a nuclear attack. In the early 1960s, civil defense programs began to go out of favor across the country due to pressure from peace groups and the growing sense that they weren't effective. But, Eric Singer, a lecturer at the University of Baltimore, says that's not why it ended in Baltimore. Sheilah talks with him about it.

Web Extra: Other contributors to the movement against civil defense programs

Web Extra: What about Baltimore and its residents caused it to move away from its civil defense program in the way that it did?

Web Extra: The racial dynamics of Baltimore's civil defense program