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Archive. Zustand: Very Good. All items are in Very Good or better condition, unless otherwise noted individually. List of 37 items (presented here in chronological order of publication): [1950s:] 1. Civil Defense Against Atomic Attack. Hearing Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Congress of the United States. In Executive Session. Eighty-First Congress. Second Session on Civil Defense Against Atomic Attack. Part 2. March 30, 1950. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1950. 61pp. Pamphlet [23cm]; plainly printed saddle-stapled wraps. Stamp to front in black ink reads: "Distributed by American College of Radiology to Educate Physicians in Radiologic Defense." Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, created pursuant to Public Law 585, 79th Congress. Brien McMahon, Connecticut, Chairman. Carl T. Durham, North Carolina, Vice Chairman. William L Borden, Executive Director. Harold Bergman, Deputy Director. Et al. 2. Survival Under Atomic Attack: The Official U.S. Government Booklet. [Washington D.C.]: National Security Resources Board, Civil Defense Office, 1950. Reprint by Lowman & Hanford Co., n.d. 31pp. Pamphlet [19cm]; saddle-stapled in plain printed wraps. Survival guide for the immediate aftermath of a potential atomic explosion. This guide seems to be an earnest attempt to try to inform while also dispelling what it portrays to be popular myths and fearsalthough much of the advice now seems almost comically inadequate. 3. Recent Picture of Hiroshima After Atomic Bomb. H-1. N.p.: n.p., n.d. [circa 1950]. Real Photo Postcard [RPPC]. Approx. 3.5" x 5.5". Divided back with stampbox and address lines. Postally unused. B&W. Photograph depicts a wide angle shot looking onto a charred, destroyed landscape with some small streets and structures visible. 4. Recent Picture of Hiroshima After Atomic Bomb. H-2. N.p.: n.p., n.d. [circa 1950]. Real Photo Postcard [RPPC]. Approx. 3.5" x 5.5". Divided back with stampbox and address lines. Postally unused. B&W. Photograph depicts a charred and barren small cityscape with some large structures in the foreground, mountains in the background, and one large street running up and down bisecting the right quarter of the image. 5. Recent Picture of Hiroshima After Atomic Bomb. H-3. N.p.: n.p., n.d. [circa 1950]. Real Photo Postcard [RPPC]. Approx. 3.5" x 5.5". Divided back with stampbox and address lines. Postally unused. B&W. Photograph, looking down onto a rural-appearing landscape, shows a mountainous region which has been burnt and destroyed. 6. Recent Picture of Hiroshima After Atomic Bomb. H-5. N.p.: n.p., n.d. [circa 1950]. Real Photo Postcard [RPPC]. Approx. 3.5" x 5.5". Divided back with stampbox and address lines. Postally unused. B&W. Photograph shows water, a bridge, and (perhaps) a newly-built or surviving structure in the foreground, with a devastated, burnt, mountainous area in the background 7. Revised Civil Defense Air Raid Instructions. [Washington D.C.].: Published by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, [circa mid-1950s]. Small broadside [25 cm]. Red text on cream colored cardstock. Broadside designed to be hung "in a conspicuous place in your house" which provides instructions for what to do in the event of an air raid emergency alert. 8. Undersea Progress With Nuclear Power. USS Sargo (SSN 583). N.p.: n.p., [circa mid-1950s]. 4pp. Leaflet [22 cm]; folded once to form four pages. Black and white photographs, diagrams, artwork Promotional leaflet for the "first nuclear powered submarine to be built on the West Coast and the second to bear that name." 9. What You Should Know About Radioactive Fallout. PA-7. [Washington D.C.]: Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1955. 31pp. Small pamphlet [12cm]; saddle-stapled, printed in black and white, with illustrations. Thorough informational pamphlet on nuclear radioactive fallout. With subject headings as follows: Fallouta new danger, What is fallout?, Characteristics of an H-bomb explosion, Formation of the fallout cloud,