%0 Journal Article
%T Cold War Ruralism:  Civil Defense Planning, Country Ways, and the Founding of the UKĄ¯s Royal Observer CorpsĄ¯ Fallout Monitoring Posts Network
%A Luke Bennett
%J Journal of Planning History
%@ 1552-6585
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1538513217707083
%X The year 1954 saw the first public detonation of an H-bomb, a weapon whose radioactive fallout challenged the existing spatialized 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 centers 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 practices into the UK countryside, but in a way that was awkward and approximate
%K H-bomb
%K civil defense
%K fallout
%K ruralism
%K urbanism
%K positive planning
%K nuclear war
%K cold war
%K bunkers
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1538513217707083