Civil Defense Administration

The Civil Defense Administration was a government agency of the United States of America, tasked with disseminating information about nuclear war survival and the creation and distribution of propaganda among the United States citizens.

One of the agency's mascots was the kid-friendly Bert the Turtle who was featured on one of the posters practicing "Duck and Cover!" This agency advocated the use of air raid shelters during a nuclear strike.

A poster created for this agency, that of a man holding a shovel asking, "Where will YOU be when the Holocaust comes?", is copied onto a slide for the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide.

Behind the scenes
The Civil Defense Administration is the Fallout universe's counterpart to the real-life Federal Civil Defense Administration, Federal Civil Defense Authority and Office of Civil Defense, American government agencies that distributed information about the threat of communist attacks and coordinated civil defense program activities such as fallout shelters between 1951 and 1979.