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Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
Sun, Rivera http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/10/dorothy-day-refuses-to-duck-and-cover/
Publisher: Counter Punch
Date Written: 10/06/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
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