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This document discusses how fears of atomic attack during the Cold War influenced suburbanization in the United States during the 1950s. While postwar prosperity and desires to leave inner cities are recognized as driving suburban growth, the document argues historians have overlooked civil defense as a significant factor. It examines how experts viewed reducing urban vulnerability as a Cold War priority and sought to disperse populations and factories through policies that facilitated suburbanization. The

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kiingkang

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