Michigan Council of Defense collection, 1942-1944.

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Michigan Council of Defense collection, 1942-1944.

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Bulletins published by the Michigan Council of Defense, later known as the Michigan Office of Civil Defense, Lansing, Michigan, 1942-1944.

1 folder.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Michigan Office of Civil Defense

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From the early years of the nuclear age, the United States government has officially committed itself to a program of civil defense to provide protection for the civilian population in the event of a nuclear attack. The civil defense program, as codified in the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, made the defense of civilians a joint federal-state responsibility. While the debate over civil defense was going on at the national level, at the state level a succession of agencies, developed out of t...