On January 13, 2018, the population of hawaiian receives an error message to alert the authorities of the State, indicating the imminent arrival of a ballistic missile over the archipelago. The panic created by this incident, just like the new focus on nuclear deterrence by the major powers since the crisis in ukraine, shows that the scenario of a nuclear war ceases to be considered impossible in the collective imagination. In this context, the historian Edward Geist has chosen to come back, in Armaggeddon Insurance, Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union...

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