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Acknowledgments Niko Pfund at New York University Press believed in this project from the very beginning, and I owe him a great debt for his stewardship of One Nation. Also much thanks to Niko’s successor at NYU Press, Eric Zinner, and to Cecilia Feilla, with whom I worked closely on the final manuscript. As always, Despina Gimbel was diligent in her duties as managing editor, and Rosalie Morales Kearns did a superb job as copy editor. Bob Harris proved to be an inexhaustible font of knowledge on this subject.Without his guidance and suggestions this book would have been much less than it is. Scott Sandage and Jeanne Lawrence gave my manuscript a close reading, and I am very grateful for their suggestions. Fellow ColdWar traveler Laura McEnaney also had a number of observations that helped me a great deal. Thanks to California State University, Chico Interlibrary Loan staff, especially George Thompson and Jo Ann Bradley. The Summer Scholar Award I received from CSU, Chico enabled me to gather most of the photographs in this book. Early on in this project Gray Fitzsimons directed me to some valuable sources, which I greatly appreciate. My colleagues in the CSU, Chico history department, including Mike Magliari, Mike Gillis, Cliff Minor, Lisa Emmerich, and Joanna Cowden, provided ix me with invaluable input, and department chair Carl Peterson has been very supportive of this project.The members of the writing group—Larry Bryant, Laird Easton, Weikun Cheng, Jeff Livingston, Tim Sistrunk, Judy Raftery, Jeanne Lawrence, and Steve Lewis—were especially helpful. Jeff Livingston also steered me to the Committee on the Present Danger material , for which I am quite grateful.Tom Parker and Jim Connolly were not only good enough to read one of my chapters, but each helped guide me to Bob Dylan’s “Let Me Die in My Footsteps.” Many thanks to Kate Transchel for her translations from the Russian, and for trying to gain access to civil defense material in Russia.Alas, as Kate informs me, the Russians are still keeping much of this material classified. Mark Schara was very generous in his hospitality in Washington, D.C., and thanks to Roger Green and Gaby Whiteman for putting me up in Ft. Myers. As always, a special acknowledgment to Kim Hoagland of Hotel Hoagland fame. Nick Natanson at the National Archives Annex in College Park, Maryland , helped me find the materials I needed, and the rest of the staff was also quite patient and helpful.Thanks to Randolph Langanbach at FEMA, and a special thanks to former OCD spokesperson Russell B. Clanahan for fielding my many phone calls and letters. Ann Seeger at the National Museum of American History went out of her way to assist me on this project.As always, the staff at the Library of Congress was very efficient. I also owe a great debt of gratitude to Mercedes Emperado at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Library for letting me use the library’s resources. Fran and Vernie Wilson very graciously showed me around their Paradise fallout shelter, and I am grateful to Les Lawrence, who helped arrange a fascinating tour of Chico’s former Titan missile facility.Thanks to Greg Taylor for the loan of Level 7 and his observations on nuclear physics, and thanks to Mike Cannon and the rest of the Pub Scouts for helping to keep me sane. This book deals with controversial issues, and my interpretation is not the only one open to scholars of good will.The people who helped shepherd me through this project represent a variety of points of view, and my book is better for it.Any errors in this book belong to me, and not to my excellent readers and editors. Acknowledgments x ...

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