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BENNETT, Luke (2018). Cold War Ruralism: civil defence planning, country ways and the founding of the UK’s Royal Observer Corps' fallout monitoring posts network. Journal of Planning History, 17 (3), 205-225.
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Abstract
1954 saw the first public detonation of an H-bomb, a weapon whose radioactive fallout challenged existing spatialised notions of targeting and post-attack recovery by making a whole country vulnerable to the vagaries of drifting toxic clouds that drew no distinction between urban centres and rural periphery. In response, the UK government established a network of 1,518 underground nuclear fallout monitoring posts spread uniformly across the country. This article considers how planning for this new reality brought a diffusion of cold war urban anxieties and ways of doing into the UK countryside, but in a way that was awkward and approximate.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | H-bomb, civil defence, fallout, ruralism, urbanism, positive planning, nuclear war, cold war, bunkers. |
| Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Natural and Build Environment |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513217707083 |
| Page Range: | 205-225 |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Ward |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2017 11:46 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 07:22 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15465 |
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