Imagine a summer day in New York City in 1955. An air raid siren wails, signaling a simulated nuclear attack and Times Square quickly empties as New Yorkers smoothly file into subway tunnels and fallout shelters. It's nearly impossible to imagine now, but these drills were repeated all across the United States. Beginning in the late forties, national security planners worked to prepare Americans for the Cold War, despite the disturbing implications of preparing to fight and survive a nuclear war. To manage this, the executive branch took on tremendous new powers, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy changed dramatically. From bomb shelters and air raid drills to the Cold War rhetoric that justified everything from the interstate highway system to CIA wiretaps, Neither Dead Nor Red provides a fascinating glimpse at life in Cold War America.