“And some people thinkinâ that the end is close by / âStead of learninâ to live they are learninâ to die”
So Bob Dylan croons in âLet Me Die in My Footsteps,” a 1962 ballad that Susan Roy quotes in her affecting new book, âBomboozled: How The US Government Misled Itself And Its People Into Believing They Could Survive a Nuclear Attack,â a colorful history of nuclear war propaganda and shelter-design ranging from the 1940s and beyond.Â
Roy, a former Managing Editor at Allure who took a hiatus from the magazine world to obtain a masters in architectural history from Columbia, became interested in the subject after seeing photographs of a âsubterranean ranch homeâ in a 2003 issue of Nest.
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