iculture

U.S. Department of Commerce; Environmental Science Services
Administration; Weather Bureau

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Public
Health Service

Office of Emergency Planning, Executive Office of the President

American Medical Association; Committee on Disaster Medical
Care

American National Red Cross

National Geographic Society

National Association of State Civil Defense Directors

United States Civil Defense Council

The Office of Civil Defense, however, is solely responsible for the
validity and accuracy of the information in the handbook.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I: NUCLEAR ATTACK

Chapter 1--Checklist of Emergency Actions

Chapter 2---Understand the Hazards of Nuclear Attack

Chapter 3--Know About Warning

Chapter 4--Fallout Shelters, Public and Private

Chapter 5--Improvising Fallout Protection

Chapter 6--Supplies for Fallout Shelters

Chapter 7--Water, Food, and Sanitation in a Shelter

Chapter 8--Fire Hazards

Chapter 9--Emergency Care of the Sick and Injured

PART II: MAJOR NATURAL DISASTERS

Chapter 1--General Guidance

Chapter 2--Floods and Hurricanes

Chapter 3--Tornadoes

Chapter 4--Winter Storms

Chapter 5--Earthquakes

Index

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INTRODUCTION

A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime
and anywhere.

It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire,
hurricane, blizzard or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack
on the United States.

In any type of general disaster, lives can be saved if people are
prepared for the emergency, and know what actions to take when it
occurs.

With the aid of Federal and State governments, cities and counties in
all parts of the country are developing their local civil defense
systems--the fallout shelters, supporting equipment and emergency plans
needed to reduce the loss of life from an enemy attack.

While these local government systems have been set up mainly as
safeguards against nuclear attack, they have saved lives and relieved
suffering in many major peacetime disasters. People have been warned of
impending storms and similar dangers, told how to protect themselves,
sheltered from the elements, fed and clothed, treated for inj