Talk:Federal Civil Defense Administration

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This page is largely incorrect. The FCDA was actually created to protect the civilian populace, but was denied the funding needed to build its proposed public shelters. Continuity-of-government functions were the responsibility of another organization, the Office of Defense Mobilization. In 1958 the FCDA and the ODM were merged into a single organization, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. I believe that the Denton shelter was actually built after this merger. The famous backyard fallout shelter campaign was largely conducted by the OCDM- while home shelters appeared in FCDA materials in the early 1950s, they only became the focus of civil defense in 1958, with the appearance of the handbook "The Family Fallout Shelter." A few scholarly monographs have been written in recent years on these topics, including Laura McEnaney's Civil Defense Begins at Home. The best brief summary I've seen of the FCDA's history was in a 1962 book titled Civil Defense: Planning for Survival and Recovery, by Donald W. Mitchell. This page should be completely rewritten using these sources.