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title: Survival Under Atomic Attack (official U.S. Government booklet, cover)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/survival-under-atomic-attack-booklet-1950/
description: 'Cover of the 1950 federal civil defense booklet: a mushroom cloud rises over a black city skyline, debris and fire at its base, under the single word…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Illustration of a nuclear explosion over a city. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Survival Under Atomic Attack (official U.S. Government booklet, cover)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/survival-under-atomic-attack-booklet-1950.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/survival-under-atomic-attack-booklet-1950.jpg)

# Survival Under Atomic Attack (official U.S. Government booklet, cover)

Cover of the 1950 federal civil defense booklet: a mushroom cloud rises over a black city skyline, debris and fire at its base, under the single word 'Survival' and the line 'The official U.S. Government booklet'. The cover stages the harm in full before the booklet offers its protective advice, and the official-publication line is the attribution tell: the source is named, the advice is framed as authoritative.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SURVIVAL
UNDER
ATOMIC ATTACK

THE OFFICIAL U. S. GOVERNMENT BOOKLET
```

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