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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Civil Defense"”.
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Civil defense under the Truman administration: the impact of politicians and scientists
… chronicles and examines the development of civil defense under the Truman administration. Both Washington's politicians and various atomic scientists embraced civil defense planning as a method of combating the Cold War and ensuring domestic national security. These efforts resulted in the …
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Economics of Emergencies: North Carolina, Civil Defense, and the Cold War, 1940 – 1963
Civil defense in the early Cold War years resulted from a perceived security threat to the American homeland. But whereas Americans remained skeptical of the ability to defend against nuclear attack, the assignment of disaster relief responsibility to civil defense provided a new avenue along which …
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"We will be prepared" : scouting and civil defense in the early Cold War, 1949-1963
… government, through such agencies as the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) (1950-1957), the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM) (1958-1960), and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) (1961-1963), regarded children and young adults as essential to American civil defense. …
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Change agents : who leads and why in the execution of US national security policy
… It focuses on cases in which military or civilian agents are selected in lieu of the other. Six factors are identified for testing as possible contributors to agency selection. These factors are drawn from the existing academic literature in the fields of civil-military relations, …
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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles
… article, I explore women’s critical roles in civil defense programs of the Cold War period, utilizing promotional material from the Federal Civil Defense Administration to demonstrate that their policies emphasizing home protection and nuclear preparedness were specifically constructed to …
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A procedure for the estimation of total radioactivity in water
… duties of the State of California Department of Civil Defense in times of nuclear weapon attack will be radiological monitoring. The workers in this field will operate from a mobile laboratory truck, equipped with radiation counters and meters, but containing only the simplest of chemical …
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False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center
… mass-formations. In analyzing the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman Border Fence and We Build the Wall, civil initiatives that aim at fortifying the U.S.-Mexican border wall (D. Trumps central campaign theme), the current surge to the right is shown to be based on and made possible …
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Percepção de risco em áreas de inundação na cidade de Santa Rita, Paraíba.
… for disaster containment worldwide, Municipal Civil Defense manuals, information collected through site visits, verbal communication with residents, visual record of elements that show the major environmental problems of the area, in addition to the use of topographic maps. Through …
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National Defense University: an integrated higher defense educational institute for democratization of civil-military relations in Nepal
… process largely results from gaps in civil-military relations (CMR). In the absence of a higher defense education platform-like the National Defense University (NDU) in the United States-unequal levels of professional competencies among the civilian officials, military leaders, and …
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Ritual, Myth, And Symbol In The Field Of Nuclear Posturing
… between foreign nuclear policy and domestic civil defense by manipulating symbols of fear. Second, posturing allowed the state to present itself in its new role as a shamanic authority over a new and powerful realm. Finally, posturing allowed for a normalization of the contradictory roles …
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Alternate Imaginaries for the Kinara: River Ravi’s Edge as a Threshold
… members, the dwellers, the boatmen, and the civil defense divers, actively defying and transforming the seemingly static Kinara—their home—through cultural and economic production. These pluralistic alternatives serve as a deliberate departure from the current large-scale, mega-urban …
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Innovative Wireless Localization Techniques and Applications
… support system for emergency response and Civil Defense assets management (i.e., personnel and vehicles equipped with TETRA mobile radio) is described in terms of architecture and results of two-years of experimental validation.
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O crescimento urbano de Rio Claro e suas implicações nos riscos à inundação: cenários de 1970 a 2015
… records of the city flood events provided by the Civil Defense, as well old news archive. With the support of geotechnology as remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it was possible to carry out this study the mapping of areas susceptible to flooding as well as the growth of …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through civil defense pamphlets, and ultimately to the science fiction b-movies of the fifties, the popular depiction of such nuclear icons as radiation, survival, and the Bomb, are analyzed for their symbolic, iconological content. The study suggests the …
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Label-free DNA Sequence Detection Using Oligonucleotide Functionalized Fiber Probe with a Miniature Protrusion
… pharmacogenetics, public health, food safety, civil defense, and environmental monitoring. However, the established techniques suffer from a number of problems such as the bulky size, high equipment costs, and time-consuming algorithms so that they are limited to research laboratories and …
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Regulación y organización de servicios de atención de emergencia y protección civil: diseño de un sistema asimétrico, multifuncional y multifactorial
Although civil defense historically has been limited to cases of serious risk or disaster, today's society is subject to a host of risks, both anthropogenic and natural, factors which are necessary to manage and respond to its consequences, once produced the causal fact, which are necessary to …
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The Bomb on the Bayou: Nuclear Fear and Public Indifference in New Orleans, 1945 - 1966
At the height of nuclear tension, governments at all levels took steps to both educate and protect their citizens. Plans that included mass evacuations and shelters were put forth to protect the public and prepare for the seemingly inevitable war with the Soviet Union. These efforts faced …
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An emergency preparedness framework for Sand andDust Storms (SDSs) in Kuwait
… on SDSs or with the support that was provided by civil defense, fire department, emergency services, red cross, and health organization. The Kuwaiti community did not attend or get involved with aspects related to SDSs, such as sharing knowledge and responsibility through attending meetings, …
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Los actos denigratorios en la legislación española
… al honor. Partiendo del artículo 1902 del Código Civil como base de la responsabilidad hacemos un recorrido por la evolución que ha experimentado el tratamiento que la legislación da a los daños morales. Desglosamos la LO 1/1982, reglamentaria del artículo 18 constitucional y que tiene por objeto …
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