There was a time in the distant past when Americans considered the threat of nuclear annihilation to be a more imminent threat. People built fallout shelters, and schools practiced drills, teaching ...

For many of us, the chilling call of the air-raid siren has faded into distant memory, a civil defense ghost of the Cold War only revisited in the occasional cinematic period piece or the ...

The author reflects on the history of Muncie's outdoor warning sirens, originally used for air raid drills during World War II and the Cold War. Delaware County's first air raid system was tested in ...