Introduction -- Directing apocalypse -- Civil defense concepts and planning -- Rehearsals for nuclear war -- Act your part: the private citizen on the public stage -- The psychology of vulnerability -- Sheltering -- Get out of town! -- Communications -- Acting out injury -- Covert stages: the "public sector" rehearses in private -- Crisis play -- International play -- Disaster welfare -- Continuity of government -- Computer play -- Afterword: dismantling civil defense -- Appendix: Cold War and civil defense time line
