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KEEP THIS BULLETIN
This INFORMATION May SAVE YOUR LIFE!
CIVIL DEFENSE PREPAREDNESS
PREPARE:
Your family shelter and equip with two-week supply of food and water, first aid kit, battery radio.
Emergency supplies for your automobile: food, water, first aid kit, battery or car radio, blankets.
LEARN:
1. Warning signals and what they mean.
2. Your community plan for emergency action.
3. Protection from radioactive fallout.
4. First aid and home emergency preparedness.
5. Use of Emergency Broadcast System — 620 or 1380 Kcs — for official directions.
6. Location of nearest Community Shelter Unit (day & night).
YOU SHOULD KNOW THE THREE MAIN DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
HEAT, BLAST, FALLOUT
WHEN THE WARNING SOUNDS
A STEADY BLAST OF 3 TO 5 MINUTES
Means ATTENTION ALERT SIGNAL — TAKE ACTION AS DIRECTED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tune your AM radio to Emergency Broadcast System station (620 or 1380 frequency) for official directions. Proceed according to your community's emergency action plan. Don't use the telephone.
WARBLING TONE OR SHORT BLASTS FOR 3 MINUTES
Means ATTACK IMMINENT — TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN BEST AVAILABLE SHELTER.
1. HEAT
Dangers facing you: The bomb produces heat of several million degrees—a good deal hotter than the temperature on the surface of the sun. This heat travels at the speed of light. A megaton explosion could kill an unshielded man 8 miles from ground zero. A 20-megaton explosion could kill an unshielded man 20 miles away. It could blister and cripple the bodies of unsheltered people well beyond that.
2. BLAST
Dangers facing you: The shock waves of a blast from a nuclear explosion travel about 900 miles an hour — nine times the force of a major hurricane! Blast could destroy a brick building 9 1/2 miles from ground zero.
What you should do: If caught unprotected beyond the 5-mile circle of total destruction you could save your life with an instantaneous dive for cover.
Cover is the same for both heat and blast.
In open country it might be a ditch or culvert. Lie face down and stay there until the heat and blast waves have passed.
In the city it might be a wall, a building, or even a truck.
Indoors it would be the floor (behind furniture or as close to an inside wall as possible).
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