Spotters and plotters worked in shifts, all hours of the day and night, the Cold War never slept. Washington State’s number of civil defense volunteers compared to the overall population, found its ranking #1 in the nation. Image courtesy Washington Secretary of State Archives, Eastern Washington Branch.
This file appears in: Eyes to the Skies!
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Eyes to the Skies!
After the close of World War II, world power relations shifted. A global clash with USSR had Americans uneasy, particularly after the Soviets developed nuclear weaponry in 1949. In response to global Soviet aggression, Congress approved measures to…