Adrian Esparza

1)With the safety of bomb shelters disproved and many people sure that war was imminent why wasn't there a migration out of densely packed cities into sparsely populated rural towns? Moving into rural areas would seem to be the best escape from large area of effect weapons like ICBM's. But except for the one case described in “One Nation Underground” there wasn't any talk of minimizing the targets presented by built up population centers.

2)Do the buildings of the era (the white sands testing facility, missile silos, and the Dew Line) count as part of the technological sublime? These cutting edge facilities were never shown to the public at large. While people were told of their existence even now, years later Mr. Vanderbilt had to go out of his way to see them. How was the population affected by their main defenses being out of sight. Remember that unlike the rest of the world up to this point America had been virtually impervious to even the possibility of attack or invasion of the main continent.

3)The problem of personnel fall out shelters where families would decide each others fates was one that struck mostly the upper middle class living in suburbia. The people that livied in cities were much more likely to be targeted, and ironicly the ones who could do the least to protect themselves. What do you think the thoughts of the city dwellers were on morality and the shelter door?