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1970 Civil Defense

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The fact that these lack any reference to fear or anger demonstrates that civil defense was working remarkably well in North Dakota in 1964.
While civil defense was effective in 1964, six years passed before protests over the ABM emerged. Civil defense had more than enough time to erode during this time, but it did not. Government-produced civil defense literature produced between 1964 and 1970 shows the government still had an interest in promoting the psychological purpose of civil defense. Material produced by local civil defense groups, as well as further newspaper coverage, demonstrated this was successful.
The first sources to examine are the Government plans regarding civil defense in the six-year period between the installation of the Minuteman Missiles and the installation of the ABM. The government plans were a result of President Kennedy's increased funding and focus on civil defense. The major program was the Home Shelter Survey. …show more content…

The messages portrayed in this document are similar to to the ideas portrayed in the civil defense documents of 1961. According to the plan, the United States Department of defense conducted, “intensive studies in the effects of hypothetical large-scale nuclear attacks against the United States,” and the study concluded, “ tens of millions of people would survive the blast and heat effects of the weapons, but that most of these survivors would be threatened by lethal or disabling fallout radiation.” This statement is meant to create urgency surrounding nuclear attack. The survey started in 1961, and by January of 1967, it had identified fallout shelter space meeting defense Department criteria for 155,000,000 people

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