.... A (1989) 152, Part 2, pp. 139-156 A Revised Set of Blast Casualty Rates for Civil Defence Use: an Overview By S. HADJIPAVLOU and G. CARR-HILLt Home Office, London, UK .- [Read before The Royal Statistical Society on Wednesday. November loth, 1988, a Vice-President. Professor J. B. Copas, in the Chair...

... casualty rules which have been adopted for civil defence planning and which, so far as deaths are concerned, are very close to the SANA/OTA assumptions. If therefore these new rates have been incorporated into new SRDB computer models one major source of discrepancy will have disappeared. There remain...

...Frank Biess The anticipation of negative popular reactions accompanied official efforts at reestablishing civil defence in West Germany from the very beginning. In November 1950, defence expert Theodor Blank worried that a public discussion of civil defence ‘might drive the population into a fear...

... that war and the one in Kuwait (in 1991); the Kurdish forces, which fought alongside the Iraqi Army in Kurdistan, both against the Iranians and the Kurdish opposition organizations; and the Civil Defence Directorate, whose purpose was to aid the country’s citizens in defending themselves against wartime...

...This chapter offers a critical investigation into the ways in which the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) sought to undermine the official narrative of nuclear weapons and civil defence policy of successive British governments during the last two decades of the Cold War.  The first part...

... schools comprehensive schools the Blitz Oswald Mosley Civil Defence air raid shelters Churchill Attlee When Churchill’s wartime coalition formed in May 1940, Wilkinson became a junior minister: first as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions and then in October 1940 as Parliamentary...

... key aspects of the life of the civilian gas mask from its first appearance in France during the First World War to its symbolic power in interwar civil defence and war resistance. chemical warfare civil defence défense passive First World War France gas mask Méric Victor poison gas anxiety...

... Revolutionary Council (AFRC), and the Civil Defence Forces (CDF). ⁹⁶ In the fourth case, the Prosecutor indicted the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor. ⁹⁷ All four 142 cases considered widespread incidences where child soldiers were utilized to commit crimes. Through its...

... Tom Harrisson Ministry of Information Admiralty blitz Home Office civil defence army morale In the case of air raids observers will not be expected to stand about…it will be entirely satisfactory if observers take shelter, so long as they are able to take shelter with other people...

...This chapter explores how the provision of Civil Defence uniforms and the way that the wearer was depicted in the public domain were central in shaping expectations and ideals of heroism. As this chapter argues, uniforms unified the appearance of the civilian population and played a central role...

... Nuclear Threat Vulnerability Thermonuclear War Civil Defence The British further insist that it is unrealistic as well as impractical to set up and maintain an adequate defense against a surprise attack. This basic divergence of views is largely responsible for the fact that the British and American...

... heroism. bombardment Buckingham Palace Great Fire of London Ratcliffe fire Civil Defence Ministry of Information armed forces Barton ‘Buzz’ League of Coloured Peoples LCP Morrison Herbert Priestley J B Roberts G A St Paul’s Cathedral fire service Braidwood James masculinity London Fire...

... Boyer Paul fallout nuclear test ban radioactive fallout standardization of catastrophe New York Times Modern Man Is Obsolete Cousins Oakes Guy Wylie Philip illusions Domestic Communism Nationalism Religion Third World Conspiracy Civil Defence Atomic War The construction of this necessary...

... bomb shelter nuclear war Grandma’s Pantry Is Ready civil defence Rand Corporation In 1960, Frank Pansch, a physician from Neenah, Wisconsin, prepared for a possible nuclear war by packing up tins of butterscotch, fancy dates, and cornflakes. Just ahead of a wave of interest in shelter building...

.... The whole fabric of organized medical care, public and private, suffered particularly. Inevitably, the highest priorities in medicine were reserved for the military and civil defence forces. Even as early as June 1943, the standard of medical care available for the civilian population was, in the judgment...

...This chapter explores the impact of war on civilians in World War II. It focuses first on civil defence against bombing raids, one of the most dangerous activities civilians could take part in. Over one million civilians were killed by bombing during the war. It also explores the conditions faced...