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Presenting the Views of Industry, Technology, American Civil Defense Association Emergency Government and Concerned Citizenry DECEMBER 1979 VOLUME XII-NUMBER 6 Sponsored by Staff The Civil Defense Forum Editor . WALTER MURPHEY Public Relations . FRANK WILLIAMS The Oak Ridge Civil Defense Society Business Manager. CAROLYN The Professional Society for Protective Design HAYES Art . J . C. BROWN, JR. The American Civil Defense Association Bureau Chiefs: Circulation. .. .. ELAINE SMITH Washington . ROBERTA. LEVETOWN Design and Pacific Coast . EVAR P. PETERSON Production . - producesaW POLICY BOARD WM . CORNELIUS HALL, Chairman J . HOWARD PROCTOR J . R . MAXFIELD (ex officio) R. F. BLODGETT ARTHUR A. BROYLES KARLLUNDGREN CONTENTS LOWELL B. JACKSON HERBERT W. JOHNSON JOHN H . NEILER W. RAY MONTGOMERY 3 EDITORIAL-TOO DUMB TO ICDO report on Kansas City; House JOHN A. SAMUEL EUGENE P. WIGNER DUCK-Has American leadership of Lords looks at fading British FRANK L . WILLIAMS adopted "dumb" Redcoat tactics? CD . ADVISORY BOARD 4 SUMMIT '79-REPORT FROM 22 SCHLAFLY REACTION TO NEAL FITZSIMMONS KANSAS CITY-Excerpts of semi- KANSAS CITY SEMINAR-Phyllis F. CORNING KNOTS WILLIAM B . MARTY nar addresses, "Highlights," cas- Schlafly news release supports EVAR P. PETERSON sette tapes . K.C. Proclamation . STEUART L. PITTMAN R . G. SHERRARD BYRON D . SPANGLER 9 THE KANSAS CITY PROCLA- 23 NEW SWISS FACT BOOK- H . W. TARKINGTON MATION-Verbatim signed tran- IN ENGLISH-Statistics show run- EDWARD TELLER script of TACDA Resolution No. away increases in civilian war 79-1 . fatalities (and Swiss corrective EDITORIAL COMMITTEE measures-for Swiss). KARL LUNDGREN, Chairman CLIFFORD A. LYLE 11 SPOTLIGHT-Late CD news, JOHN A. SAMUEL METTAG's 1980 price information. BACK COVER-SO BE IT, by Frank JAMES W. DALZELL Williams: "Spittle or Spunk"-U.S. ROBERT F. BLODGETT HERBERT T. BOGERT 12 A DAY IN OCTOBER- choice: collapse or survival . HAYWOOD W. 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Printed by Storter 20 CIVIL DEFENSE ABROAD- Printing Co ., Gainesville, Florida. 2 Journal of Civil Defense: December 1979 EDITORIAL Bob Levetown TOO DUMB TO DUCK Every American who has been tutored in his country's history knows that one of the reasons why the rag-tag Continental Army defeated the British regulars was that the British were too dumb to duck . Their military tradi- tion, founded upon chivalric gallantry and bloated with imperial pretensions, would not permit them to adopt the duck and shoot tactics of the ill-equipped and undertrained colonial bands that opposed them . For all their proud foolishness, the British did have one military advantage which supported them in their strategy: they had more firepower. Even with this advantage, however, their purely offensive forays could not prevail against the tactics of an elusive enemy that offered the most unrewarding targets . We laughed at the British redcoats as schoolboys. We reveled in the exploits of clever patriots such as the Swamp Fox and the Green Mountain boys who routinely'outwitted them . And then we grew up and elected officials who adopted the anti-duck strategy of the redcoats. What's more, our leaders have stubbornly clung to this strategy despite the fact that now, and in the foreseeable future, the Soviets and not we will have a commanding lead in strategic firepower. If there ever was a time at which we should reacquaint ourselves with our historic tradition of ducking, that time is today. In disparaging the concept of civil defense, our national publications, such as Time, have characterized the strategies of evacuation and sheltering as "running" and "hiding ." But if we were to instruct our citizens where they must travel in the event of a crisis,,it will not make America any the less gallant . If we should be prepared to shelter and feed these evacuated populations, it would not make us any the less brave. Even if we were to con- struct blast shelters for our people living and working near high-priority targets, the brass buttons on the coats of our armed servicemen would shine no less brightly. All of these activities and many more like them would only demonstrate to the Russians that we are serious about defending ourselves, that we cannot be easily intimidated, and that, above all, we are not too dumb to duck. ,-, 4' Journalof Civil Defense: December 1979 'hat of quo i? material of Piion that e of d in toto. ' t:. Lord's -A---:gar nci procure- inr r afion.) Summit '79- Report from Kansas City -A Journal of Civil Defense Staff Report On September 28th in Kansas City prepared to repel, survive and defeat a the nation's ailing civil defense pro- ". perhaps we're learning would-be aggressor . gram came under scrutiny by a panel of something . " "Our overall strategic balance is in the nation's top experts on strategic favor of the Soviets because of the preparedness . USSR's civil defense superiority. We "Summit '79" was a no-holds-barred need people with capabilities, and we must improve our civil defense not only examination. The diagnosis: "condi- also need the power to act at a time to protect us if there is a nuclear con- tion critical, not hopeless, emergency of trouble . frontation but so that civil defense can measures required-without delay." "I want to express my appreciation act as a deterrent to nuclear war. Civil Not an easy task. An uphill struggle. to you, as a citizen, for the fine work defense may be the determining factor A job for the strong. that you do. I know that many times in keeping our military balance with the Thirteen blue-chip speakers ad- you wonder 'Is the public behind me?' Soviets. dressed a blue-chip participating au- Perhaps they don't articulate it, but I "It may help prevent war." dience of 160 who came to The think that most of them are." American Civil Defense Association's seminar to get the raw truth-which they got. Lively exchanges of questons IKE SKELTON, U.S. CONGRESSMAN and answers marked most presenta- (MO): Keynote Welcome tions, and Congressman Don Mitchell "I believe that you will soon see that at the banquet finale called for am- civil defense will be a critical part of bitious post-seminar action that our total American defense. Civil could-if implemented-produce defense must be, and it soon will be, I payoff teamwork to contend suc- feel, a part of our strategic military cessfully with the overall problem. balance for our country . The President Following, in order of speaker ap- has already accepted this philosophy pearances, are brief excerpts of each in the little-publicized Presidential address: Decision-that is, PD-41 . It's now up to the rest of us in Washington and the CLARENCE M. KELLY, FBI DIRECTOR, rest of the nation to accept this new 1973-78: "American Defense-Internal civil defense role. Security" "Ladies and gentlemen, the first pur- pose of a government is to provide for "I understand that there's a re- the common defense of its people, to MAX KLINGHOFFER, EMERGENCY surgence of they matter of civil defense have a secure people and a secure na- MEDICAL PHYSICIAN : "Medical or emergency preparedness-whatever tion . How is this done? History tells Aspects of a Nuclear Pearl Harbor" you call it-but something that is very fine. That's great. And I'm very happy to (Dr. Klinghoffer stressed that his learn that there is a strong segment of ". the first purpose of a remarks did not apply to the growing our society which is interested in pre- number of Congressional leaders, and paring for problems which we possibly government is to provide for the others, who are striving to obtain a new have . I'm inclined to believe that per- common defense . ." and realistic civil defense posture .) haps we're learning something from "I believe that the Administration the troubles that beset the world. And has rejected its responsibility in the it's very obvious, very obvious, that we us time and again that the only way to defense of the American people .