Oct
20
to Feb 11
On Guard, Lethbridge!
“Can I Survive an Atomic War?” This headline from the Lethbridge Herald in 1960 captured a worry on the minds of many North Americans at the time. Over the previous decade, tensions had mounted between the western and eastern hemispheres in what became known as the Cold War—an ideological conflict in which countries raced to produce more and more sophisticated nuclear weapons. With disaster on the horizon, Canadians began pushing for civil defence.