AGENCY: Salt Lake City School District (Utah)

SERIES: 26101
TITLE: Civil defense information
DATES: 1962-1978.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by publishing agency and thereunder chronological by date of publication.

DESCRIPTION: The Salt Lake City School District collected publications and other material on civil defense in order to assist the district in providing bomb shelters and appropriately responding to nuclear threats. The majority of these are publications from the Department of Defense, but the collection includes publications from some other state and federal agencies. The collection includes a map of bomb shelters in Salt Lake County in 1970.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Publications, GRS-1678

AUTHORIZED: 07/25/2013

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

These records document the school district's concern with the threat of nuclear attack, the location of bomb shelters, and the nature of nuclear disaster training, and are therefore a valuable record of Cold War thinking.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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