Edward D. Fuller President, American Nuclear Society (Luncheon speaker, October 1 i th)
Edward Teller Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolu- tion and Peace (Luncheon speaker, October 12th)
General John L. Piotrowski Commander-in- Chief, U.S. Space Command (Banquet speaker, October 12th)
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CAPITAL COMMENTARY by Jerry Strope
THE NEW FEMA right now and the rumor is that Dick may get the political job. If so, well and good for the next three years maybe. elected on a platform of change. AI Bill Clinton was Where are the functions and people in the new FEMA Gore has since been busy reinventing government. In no was change claimed to be needed who were associated with civil defense in the past? I corner of government think most of them will be found in Preparedness, Train- more than in the Federal Emergency Management Agen- FEMA. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) denounced ing, and Exercises (PTE) . Dennis Kwiatkowski is the cy- Deputy Associate Director. There are five Divisions under the Bush FEMA as a haven for second-rate presidential Fletcher heads the State & Local Prepared- appointees . The end of the Cold War and a series of Dennis. Bob disasters challenged FEMA's mission and ness Division . There you will find the Emergency Man- major natural agement Assistance Branch, Facilities and Equipment goals and the competence of its personnel . Reorganiza- . the Training was a natural response . Branch, and so forth John McKay heads tion Division and Joe Moreland heads the Exercises Division. From the moment that James Lee Witt was confirmed One gets a whiff of the Cold War in the Resources Pre- as FEMA director, reorganization has been an objective paredness & Capabilities Division (John Powers) and the second only to looking good in the response to the next Special Facility Management Division (Bill Jones). major disaster. In early September, a new organizational structure was disseminated within the Agency for com- October 18, in a memorandum to all emplo ment. On Center of gravity for civil defensel ees, Director Witt disclosed the final result and designa_ ed the senior employees to be assigned management responsibilities . Wrote Witt, "I ask for your support and commitment to change. Working together, we can create Although PTE appears to be the center of gravity for a professional and meaningful work environment that civil defense matters, there are notable exceptions. supports innovation and meets the mission and goals of Emergency public information, for example, has been the new FEMA." melded with the normal PR functions in a staff element Stultifying like the called Office of Emergency and Public Information. There What does the new FEMA look like? will an Emergency Preparedness, Response & Public old one in some respects ; quite different in others . Direc- be to have eliminated "at least one level of Education Division in this office that will include EPI and tor Witt claims even the successful Family Protection Program. One management at headquarters" but that does not leap to marshall the eye. Below the Director, Deputy Director, and Chief of wonders whether a staff unit can the resources six line organizations or directorates to carry out these essentially line functions or whether Staff (Bill Tidball) are will wither away. if one includes the Federal Insurance Administration and they the U .S . Fire Administration, as the organization chart It will be months before the implementation of the Witt does . The other four directorates are Mitigation ; Pre- reorganization can be completed . Then, the various new paredness, Training, and Exercises ; Response and Divisions and Branches will need to establish formal and Recovery ; and Operations Support . The heads of the informal ties both internally and externally. Experience Directorates are called Associate Directors, as in the old suggests that it takes a year or more before an agency FEMA . With two exceptions, none of these slots are filled recovers from a major reorganization. 0 at this time . Neither is the job of Deputy Director of the Agency. Are these top positions slated to be filled by political appointees? You better believe it!
Well and good . . . maybe
I think back to more than 30 years ago when JFK transferred responsibility for civil defense to the Depart- ment of Defense and gave us the money to build a capa- bility. It seems to me that there were only two political appointees - Steuart Pittman as Director and Hubert Schon as his Deputy. The next level - Joe Romm, John McConnell, and I among others - were all civil servants . And I tremble to think of the quality of the friends of Bill who have yet to find a job in the Clinton Administration. In the new FEMA, the top civil servants are deputies except for John Hwang, who heads the Operations Sup- port Directorate, and Dick Krimm, who is acting Associate Director for Response & Recovery. This is the "hot seat"
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From the inspiring invocation by the Reverend Doctor Armistead Boardman at the outset of the 1993 TACDA seminar through the challenging windup ban- quet address by General John L. Piotrowski seminar participants were on the edge of their chairs. Asking questions, feeding in fresh opinions, and otherwise commenting pro and con on podium output were the rules. Give-and-take pro- vided fuel for putting proceedings in balanced and sharp perspectives.
TODAY'S CHALLENGE: PREPAREDNESS!! REPORT ON TACDA 1993 SEMINAR, - COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
~olunnist-commentator Philip C . trol. Drugs and the sharing of hypo- must play a dominant role in satisfy- :Clarke delivered the TACDA dermic needles is another route to ing the world's need -for electricity v Seminar keynote address on AIDS infection . He described the because of its inconsequential envi- CMonday, October 11th. Today with mosquito as "nature's hypodermic ." ronmental impact and its economic America's Future, Clarke is a veteran Known controls are neglected in the potential ." foreign correspondent for the Associ- United States, he pointed out, even ated Press and a prominent stateside avoided, and he criticized TACDA for The shelter workshop for the 1993 journalist. Dru Wilson of the Colorado giving in to local pressure and not seminar was held on Sunday, Octo- Springs Gazette-Telegraph quoted showing a film called "The Gay Agen- ber 10th from 1PM to 3PM . The con- Clarke as follows: da" which depicted gays marketing ducting panel was composed of No one can predict what will happen their lifestyle to American youth . In Edwin N . York, Dr. Marcel M. Barbier in our wild and wacky world, with more this way, he said, we encourage the and Cresson H . Kearny. than 60,000 nuclear weapons still scat- spread of the disease . There needs tered about the globe... . to be a "wake up" campaign that is I believe the world is as dangerous a based on place as it has ever been, possibly the hard-core truth and not Civil Air Patrol Colonel Emmit G. more. convenient cover-up. Williams focussed on the 1993 Missis- The parallel between pre-World War sippi-Missouri river basin flood. Gov- II and today is scary.. . . The luncheon address by Ameri- ernment response to the flood, he said, Clarke cited numerous areas of can Nuclear Society President was much better than the highly-criti- war and unrest and called the situa- Edward D. Fuller was a dramatic dis- cized response to Hurricane Andrew tion "the new world disorder." closure on why nuclear power needs in 1992 . Teamwork and communica- to be exploited in the United States tions held together during the flood. Dr. Max Klinghoffer, TACDA's (as it is in other farsighted countries) . Not that there were no problems. president, followed Clarke . He "The next 50 years," pointed out Preparedness for a predicted emphasized Clarke's points that a Fuller, "must find nuclear technology earthquake along the New Madrid massive attack on the United States responding to world needs to support fault line, however, was something is a strong possibility, and that strong a larger population, a higher standard that the area was not prepared for government action is needed to meet of living throughout the world, and and something that seismologists the problem - action that appears at improving our global environment . It were predicting. Prior to the historic this time to be remote, with rising ter- is not difficult to project that in 50 1811 earthquake in the area a flood rorism taking mounting tolls. years the world demand for electricity similar to the 1993 flood had occurred Klinghoffer's subject was AIDS, will be 300% of what it is today. a year and a half earlier. Should which he described as an epidemic "Most environmentalists assume another post-flood earthquake occur it out of control in the United States . that environmental degradation would, almost two centuries later, not Actions so far have been to encour- automatically comes with increased find a wilderness, but an area popu- age the spread of the disease . Like electricity use. Evidence from nuclear lated by towns and farms, and two the flu and radiation, AIDS destroys energy does not bear this out. The large cities: St. Louis and Memphis. the immune system and invites lethal risks of nuclear electricity have been Preparedness for it (anti-seismic con- diseases to take over . Among the thoroughly evaluated, but the risk of struction, etc.) in the area: nil. Casual- causes of AIDS Klinghoffer cited no electricity has not really been com- ties : maybe 150,000 or so. So far, homosexual freedoms instead of con- pared. We believe that nuclear power some talk, but no action.
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Greene Grier Kearny Wiley Williams York
Churchill was told by a lady of some general environmental cleanup, for David P. Grier IV, Chief of the years that he was "drunk." Churchill harnessing effectively the sun's ener- FEMA Region VIII Emergency Man- replied : "Yes, madam, and you are gy, for automobile safety measures, agement and National Preparedness ugly. But tomorrow morning I'll be for improved computer operations, for Division, spoke on "Emergency Man- sober and you'll still be ugly." She various types of sensors, for agement Challenges." He spoke for replied : "If you were my husband I'd improved communications, for FEMA Director James Lee Witt give you a glass of poison ." And improved industrial machinery, for whom he described as the first replied Churchill : "Lady, if I were your deeper space exploration, and for FEMA Director to have an emergen- husband I'd drink it.") countless other controls, improve- cy management background (he was Grier wound up his FEMA briefing ments, etc. that justify SDI develop- the Arkansas emergency manage- with the statement that he had "a lot ment as an all-around scientific tool. ment director). of respect for local emergency man- Montanarelli's office publishes an agement-civil defense directors." exceedingly well-illustrated Technolo- which On Tuesday afternoon, October gy Applications Report covers 11th, TACDA President Max Klinghof- Nick Montanarelli from the Pen- the subject. fer presented the TACDA "American tagon Ballistic Missile Defense Office Preparedness Award" posthumously (formerly the Strategic Defense War correspondent (11 wars) and to Dr. Petr Beckmann. Receiving the Office) spoke on "SDI Spin-offs ." foreign correspondent (over 100 award was Dr. Frank S. Barnes of the Mcntanarelli is Deputy Director in the countries) Charles Wiley spoke on University of Colorado at Boulder. Office of Technology Applications . the news media role in dealing with Montanarelli underscored the fact current difficulties. (Wiley has also visited - as an inmate - several com- Grier and his wife had recently vis- that space defense technologies can Churchill's wartime be used for much more than their munist jails.) ited Winston defense roles . They are Wiley opened his talk with a criti- underground World War II bunker invaluable also boons to business, industry, cal report on an interview with Walter which closely resembled a normal Murphey by a reporter from the Col- American emergency operations cen- academia, medicine and numerous Grier was treated to other fields. orado Springs Gazette-Telegraph . ter. While there for be exploited The report was inaccurate, and an Churchill "one liners ." (One evening They can, instance for cleaning up nuclear waste and unfavorable reflection on the
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"What does it take to wake up the reporter. She seemed to have been A prearranged tour of the North mixed up. Wiley invited the editor to American Air Defense Command took State Department?" let her come to hear him, but the edi- place on Friday, October 8th. The tor declined. Colorado Volunteer Fire Department In an informal panel discussion He also covered British civil furnished a bus for the tour. Colonel Warren S. Everett described defense - which was "going to pot." the activities of High Frontier in try- In Russia, he said the KGB approval ing to promote a Strategic Defense of Yeltsin paved the way for his vic- Blake pointed out, will not go where it Initiative (now called "Ballistic Missile tory. Wiley also gave insights based is not invited . And it recognizes the Defense") that would serve to inter- on personal visits to Mongolia and leading role of the United Nations. cept and destroy missiles launched China and Cuba. At the end of his against the United States and its talk he was pelted with questions. "Plotting Peace" was the subject allies . Wiley was not optimistic about the of Edward Teller's luncheon Howard Proctor then outlined the state of the world. address . He stressed the idea that activities he and his Congressional man can influence destiny, and that Liaison Committee would undertake checks and balances were part of in alerting Congress and other Wash- Opening the morning session on effort. With the disappearance of D .C . officials to the need for 12th was Kenneth the ington Tuesday, October the Soviet Union, he pointed out, we increased attention to homeland Brown, preparedness advocate, pri- face a totally new situation . Reduc- defense - and action to best serve vate air transport owner and operator, military manpower from 2 .4 the American people. and realtor. ing our the interests of investment consultant million to 1 .4 million by 1996 is hard- Kevin Briggs followed Proctor with Brown brought up several argu- ly to meet our needs. And with description of his neighborhood which highlighted an increas- a way a ments the knowledge that SDI can be suc- shelter project at his home in Fairfax, ing risk of trouble on the international cessfully developed, and with Virginia. The shelter will accommo- scene. Although people took deliber- accuracy, it should be pur- his house, the cold assured date 200 people beneath ate comfort in the "end of sued in the interests of peace. and is open for inspection by those war," actually there was no end to the must have defensive The missiles were still on "We interested. threat. weapons of every kind," he stressed, Wind-up panel speaker was Col- launch pads. Reports are that the among the most important is State Emergency Manage- technology and the hardware are "and orado civil defense . The idea that it is ment Director Leonard A . Boulas . being sold and that nuclear scientists unnecessary is irresponsible ." Boulas explained that state and and nuclear technicians out of work At the close of his talk Dr. Teller local emergency management are moving to Third World countries . said °I will now shut up," and he offices followed policies laid down by "Stability" is hardly the word for the floor for questions . civil defense - for- in Russia today. opened the FEMA, and that situation These pertained to the problem of merly a major effort - was no longer Other factors complicate the pic- implementing preparedness mea- in spotlight . Natural disaster ture . High among them is a doubling the sures, their positive relation to response and response to other and redoubling of world population. peace, the cost, and consequences emergencies comprised the mission We have called this the "population their neglect . management offices. explosion." It should be ranked high of of emergency among current threats to our civiliza- tion. Add to this the fact that national Veteran intelligence analyst Nancy The finale of the seminar was the and world stability are affected Greene treated the seminar audience no-holds-barred October 12th ban- adversely by the dollar crisis. to observations on the changing pic- quet address by General John L. ture of intelligence with the radical Piotrowski, Commander-in-Chief of In his presentation on "NATO realignment of political balances in the United States Space Foundation. Response to Cold War's End" Dr. the past few years. While intelligence He complimented TACDA for its Reed H . Blake of Brigham Young pursuits are being deemphasized devotion to realism in assessing the University stressed the changing pat- they really need more emphasis. We defense needs of the country. tern of the NATO mission brought need to know more about what is Commenting on the developments about by the demise of the Soviet going on for our own good . For since the demise of the Soviet Union. Referring to a Journal of Civil instance Saddam Hussein has man- Union, he said : "I wish them well, but Defense article on NATO (Summer, aged to recover for Iraq 80% of what I am not willing to sacrifice my nation 1993 issue), Blake pointed to an was taken away in the 1990 Gulf on hope . Russia clearly has the emerging civil defense role for NATO War. What do we do about this and means to destroy America." He and an effort at improving relations about other developments that pose added that Russia is conducting the among all nations . "There is a new threats? Very few corporations know world's largest "garage sale" in mili- opportunity to reach out," said Blake, that they have a need for intelligence tary arms and equipment. "We don't "that was impossible during the Cold and counter-intelligence . And most have the foggiest idea of what is out War. The new NATO Office of Civil politicians are in the dark about the there," he concluded . Emergency Planning is helping to do need. Confusion is a poor basis for Further, General Piotrowski stated, this with new planning emerging . the need to get with the problem. 'We really need to address reality." The Humanitarian aid is a primary objec- The relationships among politics, Administration needs to "wake up." tive. Inasmuch as natural and man- taxes, prosperity, production and Required now, he said in closing, is made disasters both need help the intelligence need to be appreciated a new emphasis on civil defense - and policy is to respond to both . 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TACDA Seminar '93 Photos by Janice Tyliczka and Dianne LaCroix
Above: Rev. Dr. Armistead Boardman
Left: Amy Price Dr. Frank Barnes of and General the University of John Piotrowski Colorado holds at the TACDA "American Prepared- banquet. ness Award"plaque he accepted Exhibitor Charles Sollars exchanges comments with Tom posthumously for Dr. and Winifred Strider. Petr Beckmann .
dward ii- , 'f Eddie Hicks of Athens, AL Kfinghoffe daughter) Judy Peratt, Secretary and Richard A. Max Emergency Dr. Klinghoffer's Management Cook, Director of Jefferson County CDq President (Dr. and Howard Proctor, TA Karen Miles (Colorado) Department of Emergency Teller and Chairman of TACDA Preparedness . Congressional Liaison Committee.
Flight. TACDA Staff Coordina tor Tyficzka Janice or talks with .dward r eceptionTon. at r
Paul C. Kaiser of The Denver Office of Emergency Man- David Grierof FEMA agement, Dr. Reed H. Blake of Brigham Young University Region Vlll and shelter and Richard C. Rasmussen, retired Director of the Civil builder Dr. Marcel Defense Staff College. Barbier (speakers). Col. Warren S. Everett, National Security Coordina- tor for High Fron- tier with his display of the "Brilliant Pebble"space defense weapon.
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SPOTLIGHT
1992-1993 NATURAL DISASTERS Needed : a Laguna Beach he is selecting committee members CONVINCING ARGUMENTS FOR enforced building code based on who are also experienced in the P R E P A R E D N E S S preparedness for future disasters. political field and will add consider- the effort to promote Iniki, 0 able weight to Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane congressional action in the coming the Midwest Flood and California's 1994 TACDA SEMINAR IN big job, and it needs dealt stagger- few years. It's a devastating firestorm ARKANSAS? the support of all of us." ing blows to exposed populations . First feelers - and promising ones 0 The clean-up and rebuilding will of Seminar take years. - for the 1994 TACDA TO BE course come from leading citizen Samuel A. "SDI HOAX" TURNS OUT There has been, is and will be ITSELF A "HOAX" will Weems in Arkansas . much talk about construction that Director Liaison Dr. "The Cold War is over" so goes resist future disasters. Techniques TACDA's of James M . Ridgway and Executive the phrase that has been repeated are well-known. But it costs a bit for the past few will with- Director Walter Murphey have made ad nauseam more to use materials that with Weems in months. And indeed the Cold War stand disasters (although economies plans to meet Arkansas to discuss possibilities . did get a bad bump in the behind are also realized - these include thanks to the Reagan threat of SDI, building life, reduced main- "Mr. Weems plans to have us extended meet with the Arkansas Lieutenant and right-wing journalists generally tenance, better temperature control, officials of the give Reagan's SDI plans credit for improved security - even peace of Governor and with University of Arkansas," said Mur- the Cold War's deep six . mind) . in all the huzzahs over other building that phey. "A civil defense degree course But blurred A house or the university, one the Cold War's end is the fact that won't blow down or burn down and is is a possibility at similar to that now conducted at the what replaced it gives no room for located outside a flood plain can also comfort. Mikhail Gorbachev himself further improved to withstand the University of North Texas." be Ridgway and Murphey have made said just before the Soviet Union effects of earthquakes. : of plans to spend December 8th and marched up the plank And for that growing number Plans also Americans now interested in shelter 9th with Mr. Weems . are If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to wartime attack the job of afoot to utilize Dr. Ridgway (a retired you bluntly. We will end up in such a against FEMA executive) as a consultant . civil war, in such bloody carnage that including such a shelter in this type we won't be able to crawl out of it.... It of building is "a piece of cake." Preceeding the Arkansas discus- sions will be a TACDA Board of will pit all peoples and all nations One dramatic example of a house against each other and bring about a fire is Directors meeting December 6th at built to withstand the effects of home of situation in this society the likes of shown in a recent Associated Press Crystal Lake, Florida (the which has never been witnessed by photo of a section of Laguna Beach, Board member Betty Nice). our country or the world. luxury A further report on Arkansas dis- California where over twenty in Spring When the Soviet Union shortly homes on a hillside are completely cussions will be made the issue of the Journal of Civil Defense. thereafter did "divide up" there were destroyed - nothing left but charred a lot of misunderstandings, a lot of rubble, and where one mansion in 0 disputes, a lot of friction (all of this the middle of the burned out area HOWARD PROCTOR HEADS UP still present) but fortunately no civil and only a few feet from adjacent CONGRESSIONAL LIAISON war. Twelve new republics rode the destroyed homes remains standing COMMITTEE FOR TACDA waves of the breakup with some dis- and apparently undamaged . An agreements, some friction, some amazing spectacle! TACDA Board member and Decatur-Morgan County (Alabama) threats, but no real blows - yet! Why? As some Western realists pointed One assumption - probably valid Civil Defense Director J . Howard Proctor has been appointed out, the "end of the Cold War" was - is that the home was built out of good far as it went, but it did not masonry (which doesn't burn very TACDA's Congressional Liaison Offi- as cer and is currently forming a com- remove any of some 30,000 nuclear well), and that it is topped with a tile weapons from their launch pads . roof. mittee to assist him in making con- gressional contacts . Rejoicing was a bit prennature. And it Hopefully, the lesson of the house still is. refused to burn down will not be "We need badly a good liaison that Adding to the confusion was a lost on other homeowners who must relationship with Congress," now rebuild. observes TACDA President Dr. Max New York Times editorial and article shown in Hurri- Klinghoffer, "especially those mem- claiming that a 1984 SDI test proving Unfortunately, as SDI's capability of intercepting a mis- cane Andrew and other disasters, bers of Congress who appreciate the homeowners will need for a much-improved prepared- sile was a "hoax." (The Times had a contractors and record of being anti-SDI .) conspire to rebuild the cheapest way ness posture . And I don't know a possible - which means that the better person for the job than Quick to refute the Times story rebuilt homes will again be vulnera- Howard . He has the experience to was General Daniel Graham, head ble to disaster. deal with Washington officials, and of High Frontier. Also Frank Gaffney
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who was an arms expert under the tion in California, the substance - a National Coordinating Council on Reagan Administration . Then even syrup-like compound of mercury and Emergency Management's Bulletin Defense Secretary Les Aspin antimony oxides - was developed by (called Bridges) Laura Buchbinder, the Soviet Army in the debunked the story. There was noth- mid-1980's and Superintendent of the Emergency is now making its way into world black ing to it. markets at $1 .8 million a pint. In an Management Institute, meets "the But `the Cold War is over'- still. In American Legion magazine cover Challenge of Change" by scrubbing spite of unrest and fighting in Russia, story, Schweizer says "red mercury" is nuclear war from its curriculum . the same in Georgia, the same in supposed to dramatically simplify the Notes Ms. Buchbinder in her article; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and else- refining process for plutonium, a Experience in Hurricanes Andrew where. "Pie in the sky" is too tempting . major ingredient in the production of and Iniki justified a number of curricu- nuclear bombs. O lum changes already in progress, but Although lacking official confirma- also suggested that the pace of NEW TERRORIST THREAT : tion, Schweizer's report contains fac- change must increase. The following "RED MERCURY" tual information that cannot easily be are just a few of the changes that are ignored . An example : Evgeny taking place at EMI.. . . America's Future (Editor: Philip C . Korolev, a Russian scientist from Clarke) announces another new Eterinburg, where the compound is " Shelving of courses and/or modules focussing on nuclear threat to the West : Red Mercury. An manufactured, warns : "With red mer- attack issues .... item in this publication reports : cury, Saddam Hussein can make a bomb the size of a grenade that could While defense officials strive to pre- Changing emergency management blow a ship out of the sea." Whether threat. In the national security arena, vent the spread of nuclear missiles, Korolev is exaggerating or not, there Third World terrorist regimes are we in the West have gone from a sin- is no doubt that red mercury is a hot gle, pre-eminent stealthily acquiring high-tech weapon- enemy - Russia and commodity among the world's nuclear the Warsaw Pact countries - to a host ry from clandestine suppliers eager "wannabees ."... for profits. Alarm bells should be ring- of ill-defined threats arising from politi- ing. cal instability and emerging nationalis- tic tendencies . The danger of nuclear One of the latest threats is a myste- EMI DUMPS CIVIL DEFENSE war has been replaced with increased rious new substance called "red mer- threats from individual terrorist acts.. . . cury." According to Peter Schweizer, In an article published in the spe- a media fellow at the Hoover Institu- cial October 1993 edition of the
Q & A Corner Q: The Journal has printed in the past a group of strong quotations from well-known leaders focussing on the require- ment for a no-nonsense preparedness - civil defense and SDI and a credible military . We need them again. Would you please reprint? A: Yes . Thank you. Here they are (and there are others) : "Si vis pacem para bellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war). -Julius Caesar. "There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy."- George Washington . "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." - Thomas Jefferson. "It does not matter if three fourths of mankind is destroyed; all that counts is that ultimately the last quarter should become Communists."-V. I. Lenin . "We owe that kind of insurance [civil defense] to our families and to our country."-John F. Kennedy. "Until war is eliminated from international relations, unpreparedness for it is well nigh as criminal as war itself ." - Dwight Eisen- hower. "A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today... . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites. . . .. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn . "My administration firmly believes that the purpose of our country's defense capability should be to protect the lives and prop- erty of the American people."- Ronald Reagan. "If we. . . are prepared for war, then we will not have war. No aggressor will dare tangle with a properly defended America." - Bill Chappell (former U.S. Congressman). "Peoples have a right and even a duty to protect their existence and freedom .. . against an unjust aggressor.. . ." - Pope John Paul II. 0 And there are many more. For instance, Winston Churchill said: "The need for an effective Civil Defense is surely beyond dispute. .. no city, no family nor any honorable man or woman can repudiate this duty. .." And Edward Teller: "In a dangerous situation we have taken the most dangerous of courses : we have refused to face our danger ."
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Writer Edythe F. Robinson and her mother, Ellen Krueger Strom, have long wanted to look into their colorful Russian origins but have been prevented from taking steps in that direction by harsh political realities. Finally, with the new openness that has come about with the "Confederation of Independent States" and the Republic of Russia the opportunity to visit their former homeland (itself an adopted one) presented itself.
VOLGA ADVENTURE - A LAND IN TRANSITION
- Edythe Robinson
mother and I had planned For many years we thought we tourist spots but focusing on places this trip for two years. We would never have the opportunity, important to our heritage . ywere going to return to our but glasnost and most recently the We visited St. Petersburg, stayed "roots"; the place where my mother opening up of areas of Russia that at a hotel adjacent to the Russian Mwas born and where our ancestors had never been allowed to foreign- cruiser "Aurora", and visited the had lived for over two centuries . We ers finally made our dream a reality usual tourist sites. It was pleasant to were descended from a colony of with the assistance of an organiza- be able to walk around this historic Germans who emigrated to Russia tion called The American Historical town without being told "No pho- at the request of Catherine II of Rus- Society of Germans from Russia, tographs allowed" or denied entry to sia in 1762. These people settled which we belong to. Along with sev- certain places. Everyone was friend- along the rich agricultural area of the eral other members of this organiza- ly, helpful, and more than eager to Volga River and became known as tion we traveled in Russia for three let us share our American dollars. the Volga Germans . weeks, briefly visiting the normal We went to the naval fortress island of Kronstadt, one of the defense sites for St. Petersburg, and wan- dered around barracks and ships freely. We visited Moscow for several days, arriving and leaving before the recent upheavals. People we spoke to knew "something" had to happen, and seemed to alternate between wondering what it would be and just ignoring politics altogether . Our guides and interpreters were very open in discussions about their country and its problems, as were the local townspeople we talked to . Most seemed to feel that they [as a country] needed strong people to tell them what to do, but didn't want to go back to communism . They just didn't know what was best for them, but all seemed to be hopeful for the future. Most of the people also felt that their salvation lay in good rela- tions with the United States. Ellen Strom (R), author's mother with Volga German friend (L) whose health has been Everywhere we went the people affected by leaked radiation. The friend is 17years younger than Ms. Strom. cautioned us about "the Mafia". The
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people allowed to return to their homeland on the Volga . When they arrived in the Kaza- khstan area, the natives (described to us as having narrow eyes and round faces) were very hostile, not even giving them water to drink. The Volga Germans were tortured, put into military camps, their families separated. They were harnessed to plows and used as animals, whipped if they dared stop. After some time they began to teach the natives and show them cleanliness, and then they "lived well together." Today, the Volga villages are but a shadow of their former selves, many having been totally destroyed, others with but a few homes remain- ing. Many of the residents of the vil- lages in this area, both the returning Volga Germans and area Russians, Moscow McDonald's - "Largest in the World" are suffering from a variety of can- cers, heart problems, diabetes and cities, towns and villages all seemed hotels have security forces to safe- complications . The cause, unofficial- to have the same concerns. There guard their guests. ly, is from a nuclear power plant in a is, they say, an organization of Rus- Our destination was the area of the nearby still-closed area, with "prob- sian Mafia, separate from other lower Volga River region centered in lems". They are treated in area hos- organized crime, but working togeth- the university town of Saratov, where pitals, but fear for their futures. er when it suited them . Most small the Volga German culture was based We had brought with us from the business people gave "bribes" regu- over a two-century period . My mother U .S . a number of dental and medical larly to these people to insure the and I traveled over country roads and supplies which we shared with as safety of their operations, feeling it dirt paths to an area just north of the many as possible . was the prudent thing to do in these city of Marx . This was originally all vil- When our time was gone and we days of transition . Small businesses lages of Volga Germans, where my prepared to go home, we determined that refused very often found their ancestors had lived and where my to return not only to our ancestral windows smashed or operation mother had been born . We made Volga homeland but to visit the Rus- burned and looted . Many foreign contact with one of a very few Ger- sian people . They have not tread an business people regularly hire secu- man families left in the area, and easy path in life. But they are all sur- rity in the form of armed guards, vet- received the accounts of their lives vivors and are trying to make a bet- erans of the Afghanistan wars, to under the fist of Stalin. ter life for their children, as we all try. guarantee their safety . And most For many years after the 1917 Their paths will not be our paths, but revolution these people had been from my experiences and visits, we fairly well left to themselves . They can walk our separate roads in com- were very productive and although panionship from now on. 0 scorned because they were foreign- ers, they contributed more than their share to the food harvests of Russia. In 1941, Hitler's Germans were destroying the Russian homeland and Stalin reacted viciously. In August, 1941, Russian soldiers came to the villages of the Volga Germans and told them they were being moved . They had two days to put their affairs in order. They would be allowed only to take what they could wear and carry on their backs. They were put on carriages drawn by horses and camels, taken to a Volga River barge and thence to Author Edythe Robinson prepares to dis- Samara where they were put in cat- tribute medical supplies to villagers as tle cars and transported to Kaza- she leaves her hotel room in Saratov, khstan. Edythe Robinson stands in front of St. Russia. Only in the 1980's were these Basil's Church in Moscow.
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Among the explosive trouble spots in the world today Yugoslavia stands out as the most dangerous and the most defiant of solution. Its breakup into separate belligerant parts has resulted in constant bloodletting . Efforts of communities and families and individuals to survive are daily problems. They demand con- stant development of means of protection. Here two Yugoslav scholars report on the problems of survival measures under these conditions.
PERSONAL AND MUTUAL DEFENSE - THE FOUNDATIONS OF CIVIL DEFENSE IN YUGOSLAVIA - Simon A. Djarmati and Milo~J . Opsenica
ome future war of a wide scale THE ORGANIZATION AND inhabited by more than a half of the will not spare any part of the FUNCTION OF PERSONAL total population points out, more population no matter what the AND MUTUAL DEFENSE than anything else, the importance of degree of their engagement in the Besides the fact that all the ele- organizing and preparing for civil S ments of the newest conception of defense and personal and integrated war is . This fact is confirmed by con- temporary local wars. People unwit- civil defense in Yugoslavia (personal defense. tingly find themselves in substantially and mutual defense, measures of Enormous concentrations of peo- altered conditions and live under national defense and salvage, gen- ple in a limited space, the mingling of war-dictated regimes . There is no eral and special staffs, companies, residential and industrial areas, doubt that there will be large human organizations and services which numerous warehouses of material and material losses during their are equipped and qualified for pro- goods, the presence of materials future war. Their elevation depends tection and salvage services for sensitive to fire and also people not only on the degree of the observation and information) are themselves not following correctly enemy's engagements but also on officially treated equally . More and the technological procedures in pro- the attitude of the population - its more there are those who think that duction, incompetent handling of preparedness. The case is the same the foundation of the organization of machines and apparatus, lack of dis- in the conditions of natural disasters civil defense is a coordinated mass cipline and not observing necessary and technological disasters. A large engagement of the population and measures of protection, increase the number of people are involved, prac- the reduction of the consequences perils of the urban environment, the tically all the capable population, and of war disasters, and natural and number of violations and the sensi- they work toward removal of the con- technological disasters. tivity of city infrastructures. In these sequences of war and peace opera- Through personal and mutual environments a fast spreading of tions . This is true where the large defense we first secure a sponta- fires, poisonous gases, smoke and and decisive importance of personal neous and organized means of help outpouring liquids from place to and mutual defense is to be found . in the defense and salvage of war place is evident, which encourages An element of civil defense presents disasters and other disasters and catastrophes. the most massive and the most perils in war and in peace. It is orga- The wrecking of buildings and immediate organized preparation nized and executed in every family, other structures, in cases of earth- and participation of citizens in the block of apartments, business build- quakes for instance, is followed by protection and salvage of people and ing, town, street, district, company, enormous burying of people and the property in places endangered in and every other place where people obstruction of roads. peace and war. In the context of per- live or work . So, personal and mutu- Besides this, earthquakes in cities sonal and mutual protection, mea- al defense, as a means of civil cause a number of problems in sup- sures and procedures of preventive defense, is the essential basis for plying and taking care of many peo- defense, first aid and self-help offer mass and planned engagement of ple who have become homeless . assistance to the members of the citizens as active subjects of the Damaged waterworks and sewage families - procedures which do not defense and protection system of the systems increase the peril of dis- demand high qualifications and country. eases and epidemics . capabilities are prepared and exe- The common characteristics of There are warehouses of cuted. the cities and the fact that they are inflammable liquids in every large
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city, and also numerous gasoline these urban environments is impos- tion of the imperiled population in stations . And within city structures sible without a well-organized provi- order to ensure effective prevention, are many heating plants and boiler sioned and capable systems of defense, salvage and providing for rooms. This increases the danger of defense and salvage . Personal and care of casualties and property dam- explosions, fires and pollution. mutual defense as the most immedi- ages. Industrial and trade warehouses ate forms of defense and salvage 5. Location (good space allocation) in which a lot of reserve materials have to have a special place in this has a particular importance in realiz- are stored have problems due to system . ing personal and mutual defense . Organizing personal and mutual inconvenient locations and cramped The functions of this very impor- defense at all the places where space . When goods are stored, not tant element of civil defense peo- are : ple are found, they satisfy their cultur- enough care is taken as to the 1 . Personal and mutual defenses al, social, recreational and other nature of the materials and their sen- execute all the needed and possible needs, provide for a prompt activation sitivity to mechanical blows, chemi- measures to decrease the losses in of defense and salvage. cals or heat - which accompanied by war situations of direct war danger - 6. Essential prerequisites of the effi- negligence often cause fires and and in situations of natural or techno- ciency of personal and mutual explosions and in logical disasters. result large materi- defense are the training and equip- al losses and human casualties . 2 . They provide prompt, effective and ping of the population for defense and The presence of synthetic materi- mass salvage of people and property, salvage. aiming to alleviate the als in contemporary buildings leads consequences 7. Within the scope of during the after-war operations personal and to new forms of danger which are and mutual defense the population disasters in peace. should characteristic of the burning of these be trained for and prepared for sal- vage up to the degree that presents personal and mutual defense. These tasks have such a character, scope and content that they could be real- ized promptly and effectively with the minimum of financial and technical support and the minimum of technical and medical knowledge, the use of shelters, refuge areas and other defense measures within the objec- tives of hiding the population and material goods, blacking out and cam- ouflage, putting out of initial and smol- dering fires within the scope of defense and salvage from ruins, floods and other disasters; first aid; taking care of the hurt population ; per- sonal defense and the decontamina- tion of food and water within the radio- logical-chemical-biological defense, etc. The function of personal and mutual defense is complex. First, in case of war or direct war danger, and in cases when natural and other disasters can be predict- ed, all necessary and possible mea- sures are carried out through per- sonal and mutual defense which contribute to the decrease of war consequences or other conse- quences of disasters. Second, where the state of emer- gency is lasting (war activities, natu- ral Jisasters, technological disasters, etc.) or when they are finished, per- materials followed by great quantities 3. They provide the conditions for an sonal and mutual defense provides easy as possible way of of smoke, high temperatures and overcoming prompt mass salvage of the the existing situation by taking popula- highly concentrated toxic products. care of tion and the imperiled and killed and injured . property with the aim of All these misfortunes are even decreasing the consequences of the 4. The characteristics more complex in war conditions - of the conse- emergency situations . quences of natural and particularly when weapons of mass other disas- ters (fast spreading, affecting relative- Third, by adequate measures and destruction are used . ly large areas, endangering a large conditions are produced for painless- Successful control or elimination amount of people, property, materials ly contending with and overcoming of these perils and consequences in and other goods) call for prompt reac- states of emergency. 0
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20 Years Ago in the JOURNAL OF CIVIL DEFENSE (Then Called SURVIVE)
EXCEPTS FROM EUGENE WIGNER'S ADDRESS To THE USCDC* CONFERENCE ON OCTOBER 11, 1973 Edward Teller, Eugene P. Wigner, and J. Howard Proctor IN ST. PAUL, MINN.
There are two main reasons why I am strongly It is the abhorrence of the doctrine of assured aware of the importance of civil defense. mutual destruction . A world in which nations can The first reason is my fear for the future of this destroy each other and are deterred from such country and the future of what we mean by freedom . destruction only by the fear of their own destruction, Most of you do not share this fear with me - the is not a world of peace . possibility of the loss of the independence of this There are only two ways to change this : by mak- country is as far from the thoughts of most people as ing the weapons fewer and weaker, that is disarma- was the similar possibility for France when French- ment, or by making them less effective, that is pro- men spoke of Hitler's objectives before the Second tective measures, principally defense of the World War. civilians . The former does not seem to be possible Having seen the loss of independence of so many now ; we have to concentrate on the latter. This then countries, and being gravely aware of so many simi- is the second reason for my interest in civil defense lar events in the course of history, I do not share this and is a firm conviction of my mind. absolute confidence. How much better, how more truly peaceful would I do not share this confidence even though I know be a world in which countries are safe from destruc- that these fears separate me from most of my Ameri- tion by their neighbors. The impossibility of destroy- can friends and make me unpopular. This fear is the ing their neighbors . The impossibility of destroying first reason for my belief in the prime importance of their neighbors would also abolish the thought and civil defense . the desire to do so, as Mao Tse Tung said : "The The second reason for my devotion to civil fight against odds is not a mark of the revolutionary, defense is, in contrast to the first one, I believe, it is a mark of the fool ." 0 shared by most people. 'USCDC (United States Civil Defense Council) is now the National Coor- dinating Council on Emergency Management. SURVIVE
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SURVIVE : National Civil Defense Director John E . Davis in 1973 presented his "All-Risk" approach to civil defense, which includes surveying of blast shelter in anticipated target areas. Is this a desirable step?
PROCTOR: Yes it Is, but knowing the blast shelter I .Y<.%U&, potential In what we deem to be anticipated target Interview with USCDC areas is not enough . Every community in every state President J. Howard Proctor should be aware of its blast shelter situation. And [Director, Decatur County, Alabama] then we must also ask, who does really know the tar- get areas, and should we not be prepared for delivery errors? All-Risk defense means to me total protection SURVIVE : Mr. Proctor, you have just assumed the presi- for the total population against the total threat dency of the United States Civil Defense Council. What regardless of its source. are your primary objectives as president? SURVIVE : Do you favor organized evacuation? PROCTOR : These are set forth in the 10-point pro- gram adopted by the USCDC Executive Committee PROCTOR : Yes, I favor evacuation. Without planning, for the coming twelve months. Five of these points If a catastrophe were Imminent, you would have are: [1] a redefinition of the role of local government unorganized evacuation . After a catastrophe hit the in defense, survival and recovery, [2] a stepped-up survivors would still have to evacuate the damaged CD training program for local officials, [3] spreading area. Organized care and reception areas must be the "All-Risk" program to the entire nation, [4] sup- provided for evacuees. Therefore, the smaller and port of and compliance with executive orders by fed- unaffected communities must have guidance and eral agencies, [5] the updating of blast and fallout help from the state and federal governments to be shelter publications. prepared to take care of the millions of displaced per- sons. I have never been in favor of the program of SURVIVE : What is your opinion of American civil defense FALLOUT SHELTERS only for our civilian population. as it has existed for the past twenty years? If we have fallout, then it is quite clear that someone has been a target. PROCTOR : For too long this nation has followed the defense pattern of destructive capabilities of our SURVIVE : According to Jiri Nehnevasja's surveys the armed forces with very little consideration given to American public assumes that the United States has an the survival of our people and resources. No military adequate civil defense program . Is there an obligation of any nation is any stronger than the civilian popula- here to let our people know that they are mistaken in tion and its resources that must back It up. A strong believing that they are well-protected in the event of civil defense and a true protection and recovery pro- nuclear attack? gram would be a strong deterrent force. A weak civil defense can only invite attack. PROCTOR : It Is incredible that the American people should think that they would be well protected In a SURVIVE : How do you feel the superiority of Soviet nuclear attack . The illusion that this nation has an and Chinese civil defense fits in with our attitudes and adequate civil defense program should not be problems? allowed to exist. The American people should be cor- rectly informed by the Administration . Dr. Edward PROCTOR : Our attitude in the past - and now - Teller has been very outspoken about this many seems to rest with the comfortable feeling that with times, but apparently the public and the news media all the money we spend on military defense it will have never been impressed. give us adequate survival and recovery capability for To ignore this situation Is to act irresponsibly, to for- our people and resources. Evidently the Soviets feel the history nations and to endanger civilian and its get of the contin- that they must save the population ued existence of the United States. resources in order to support the military and the mil- itary mission and are willing to fund and organize the SURVIVE : How could SURVIVE help you in reaching civilian population toward this goal. This is easier in your goals? a totalitarian nation. Yet when FREE nations by FREE choice resolve to achieve a course of action they PROCTOR : Just keep on telling your story . Keep on always succeed far beyond the totalitarian or UN- telling the truth as loudly as you can. Let the proper FREE nation. people know there is more to survival of this nation than missiles, planes and guns. 0
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BEHIND THE HEADLINES A SECRET RUSSIAN COMPUTERIZED ATTACK? - Philip C. Clarke
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t sounds like something out of a missiles on trucks would fire automat- are mixed . Some U .S . scientists ~James Bond thriller. But accord- ically, triggered by commands from express skepticism, others find the .l ing to a leading U.S. expert, Rus- the communications rockets." doomsday scenario "plausible ." "If sia has developed a so-called At first impression, it might seem the Russians did it," says William "'doomsday machine" that can that "Dr. Strangelove" is alive and Odom, former head of the National bypass human hands and fire Rus- well and living in Russia. But Blair Security Agency, "it's because the sian nuclear missiles automatically. insists that this is not science fiction. guys at the top didn't understand the Dr. Bruce Blair, a senior fellow at Author of a book titled The Logic of system's deadly implications . We've the respected Brookings Institution in Accidental Nuclear War, published by seen this before in the Russian mili- Washington, D .C ., says the secret the Brookings Institution in March tary. It's a machine out of control ." computerized system was first tested 1993, Blair based his research on Dr. Edward Teller, the renowned by the Soviets in November, 1984, scores of lengthy interviews with offi- nuclear physicist often referred to as and is still in place and operational . cers in charge of Russia's nuclear the "father of the H-bomb," warns In the October 8th New York Times arsenal . And he says the automated against exaggerating the threat of he provided this detailed description missile-firing system is "symptomatic doomsday weapons . While not dis- of how the system - which Russian of a nuclear dependency that still puting the findings of the Brookings rocket scientists call the "dead hand" afflicts Russia." He adds that "other expert, Teller said he knows from -would work: symptoms abound, including the con- personal contact that many of Rus- tinuing construction of deep under- sia's top scientists and defense lead- Using electronic devices that regis- ground command posts in the Urals ers are "doing everything they can" ter a break in communications with with hardened antennas for ordering the Russian general staff and detect to lessen the danger and keep nuclear explosions in the vicinity, the retaliatory strikes by deeply sub- nuclear weapons from getting out of apparatus forms an order to launch, merged submarines." Says Blair : control. "In today's world," he told a complete with unlock codes, and "The Russians also still keep thou- seminar of The American Civil transmits it through a neaby low-fre- sands of strategic warheads poised Defense Association, "we must coop- quency radio antenna to yet another for immediate launching, and contin- erate for the sake of all humanity." set of special complexes as far as 600 ue to play nuclear war games with Interviewed on a recent TV panel miles away . There, emergency com- Western foes in mind ." Several program, Defense Secretary Les munications rockets hidden in SS-17 months ago, he says, "Russia fought Aspin was asked if he had any con- silos or on mobile SS-25 launchers an all-out nuclear war (game) with automatically record the launching cerns over the security of Russia's instructions and then automatically the United States." huge nuclear arsenal . Aspin replied fire themselves on trajectories that "Yes, this doomsday machine still that he had "no evidence that the traverse all the nuclear missile fields exists," concludes Dr. Blair. "The Russian command is not under safe in the former Soviet Union. During Russians lavish resources on its control." The Brookings Institution's their 30-minute flight, they transmit modernization to keep it on combat Bruce Blair, however, finds the auto- signals to fire directly to all the alert at all times." And in what is of matic nature of the Russian system emplaced nuclear-armed interconti- grave significance to the U .S. and "inherently dangerous." Since the nental missiles in the Russian strate- other nations, he notes that "the risk collapse of the Soviet Union, he told gic rocket forces. of its launching weapons by acci- the New York Times, the Russian In short, says Blair, "the dooms- dent. . .clearly increases in a nuclear early-warning system has been day machine provides for a massive crisis . . . . Arms negotiations are all "limping along," increasing the risk of salvo of these forces without any well and good, but the higher priority a mechanical misstep. "A false alert participation by local crews. Weapons is to eliminate the hair trigger on during an international crisis, he commanders in the field may be com- those arms that remain ." says, "could result in activating the pletely bypassed . Even the mobile Reaction to Dr. Blair's revelations 'dead hand.' " Ll
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LETTERS
YOUTH MUST Russians . Many of them have been "PICK UP THE HOE" losers in the past and consider dying I attended a TACDA (The Ameri- an honor that they don't mind can Civil Defense Association) semi- bestowing on themselves as well as nar in Colorado Springs (10-12 Octo- on their loved ones. Our children and ber) . My wife and I got to see the grandchildren did not play those Cheyenne Mountain complex and MAD games that we somehow also drove down to the Forbes thought we had mastered. Since our ranches south of La Veta Pass generation has left our descendants where the mountain scenery is terrif- a bad economic legacy, the least we ic as well as up to the Will Rogers can do is to try to keep some of our Shrine above Colorado Springs, to hands still on the reasoning or EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Garden of the Gods, Cripple Creek, thought complexes for the defenses etc. Our stay was enjoyable as were that kept freedoms for ourselves. ('118 FOR AUIItOCAD ® Until we make them understand that the conferees, including the sage POINT & CLICK EASE and humorous Dr. Teller. However, the reason they haven't seen wolves at the door is because we kept those we came away somewhat saddened THEMATIC OVERLAYS by the knowledge that the Clinton wolves away and now our descen- dants have to pick up the hoe if they Administration is pulling another USER-DEFINED MENUS McNamara stunt (remember the want to survive as the free nation in which they grew up. They must be MAD doctrine) and killing the poten- dBASE COMPATIBLE tially almost perfect defenses of taught that weeding time comes which Brilliant Eyes and Brilliant before picking time, and that the first Pebbles are capable. weeding time is in 1994. SPATIALUtiIitiesz Tom Strider History records a brilliant star 1"800"544"5435 almost two thousand years ago SMALL PEARL HARBORS POLLUTION REVOLUTION? AND BACKYARDS New Orleans History records a brilliant star almost two thousand years ago that Denver Dear TACDA : seemed to usher in a new era . If we are worried about pollution Hopefully our children and grandchil- Will we finally get off our butts and from fossil fuels why don't we take dren will be able to reap the bless- realize we are living in a nuclear the bull by the horns and do some- ings of love and freedom that were age? And it is not going away? In thing about it? promises of that new era. However, fact, it is becoming even more dan- What? successful farmers understand that gerous. As stated in the article, "The Well, back in the old days - even sowing and hard work come before American people face unprecedent- now to a limited extent - we got reaping . In this case, sowing con- ed dangers - small Pearl Harbors ." power from animals, from the wind, sists of gaining knowledge of the This means our backyards. from water, and even from our own country's and the world's status quo sweat. It didn't pollute . and the possible results of same . Of course, we need a lot more The hard work includes weeding, Americans have absolutely power now. But clean nuclear power and in our republic voting time no nuclear protection can be increased to fill the gap if we should be weeding time . will just let it and get rid of our nucle- ar nonsense hang-up . Fortunately most people today In the past, we have always hid Electric cars are around the cor- don't recall what MAD (mutual ner, and these would be a big help. assured destruction) meant . Since a behind the mass deterrent . But that young Bill Clinton ran away from the doesn't work now. Americans have trauma of serving his country during absolutely no nuclear protection . Are Nuclear nonsense hangup Viet Nam, I doubt that he was aware we to wait until the whistle blows? It of the trauma brought on by under- will, with more than 27,000 nuclear standing MAD at the time. I doubt weapons circulating throughout the We managed the industrial revolu- that he understands that the game of world. tion a couple of hundred years ago. MAD today is very much different Jack Hoemer Because of it we now need the "pol- from what it was then. Unfortunately, lution revolution." Let's get on with it. not all of the enemy missile powers (Above letter appeared in today play chess as well as do the The American Legion.) Joe Brycet
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A few years ago federal prisoner Jerry Houston and retired FEMA executive Bob Bearnes teamed together to promote civil defense initiatives inside prisons, where many prisoners longed to work on useful projects and liked the idea of contributing to national preparedness . The idea caught fire, and FEMA offices were contacted. Bob Bearnes, however, died a few months ago, and Houston's main source of support was gone. Bearnes' idea, however, did not die. As the following article by Jerry Houston reveals, the idea is alive and well and appar- ently, with the help of those who recognize its merit, closer to realization .
Jerry Houston CIVIL DEFENSE SYSTEMS UPDATE
- Jerry Houston #92031
lull Defense Systems, Inc . In one case, 30 to 40 Missouri be made use of for the common (CDS) is a non-profit organiza- prisoner volunteers have submitted good of this country. tion with IRS tax exempt sta- signed emergency training applica- Simple forms can be used to sign Ctus seeking to further the dissemina- tions to the Missouri emergency up willing prisoners . These can be tion of disaster information and to management training director to headed up by pledges something promote disaster response training receive civil defense training at the like the following : for prisoner volunteers . The idea Jefferson City Correctional Center in We the undersigned convict labor extends to the construction of shel- Jefferson City, Missouri . volunteers hereby pledge to offer/pro- ters where possible. Emergency management officials vide ourselves to the President as an CDS now serves as a course are now waiting for approval from available volunteer manpower labor sponsor for more than 300 course prison officials to proceed with the force to be trained and used as he training . deems best for the common good of applicants (prisoners) enrolled in the the nation. FEMA home-study program. Applicants have requested train- These courses are provided free ing workshops in subjects such as : New commitments in providing of charge by FEMA to the general Red Cross Shelter Management ; the planning muscle to launch the public. They include excellent intro- Introduction to Emergency Manage- training and the program include : ductions and orientations to all four ment; Disaster Recovery Operations; (1) Missouri emergency management Hazardous Materials Contingency officials Dennis Mobrice and Eric Evans phases of Comprehensive Emergen- (Missouri SEMA, P.O. Box 116, Jeffer- cy Management : (1) preparedness, Planning; Flood Control ; Firefighting ; son City, MO 65102). (2) response, (3) recovery, (4) and and general disaster cleanup. State (2) Ira B . Kischbaum, General Coun- mitigation . and Federal maximum/medium sel for Federal Prison Industries in Home-study applicants and indi- security correctional facilities (pris- Washington, D.C. viduals are of widely different ages ons) constitute a substantial (3) Marcel Barbier, shelter design and and backgrounds . untapped labor source which could building expert. (4) Willis Mast, Mennonite Disaster Relief Coordinator. (5) Dan Bunch, a Hazmat planning employee for the city of Lenexa, Kansas. (6) David Parrott, Hazmat planning for the city of Corpus Christi, Texas. (7) Paul Weaver, Assistant Director for the Christian Aid Ministries.
Civil Defense Systems is currently in need of civilian volunteers from the general public. Interested parties are invited to contact us . Our address is: Civil Defense Systems, Inc. P .O. Box 454 Hampton, Florida 32044 With the start of classes and the further development of Civil Defense Systems another report will be forth- CD training candidates in Missouriprison. coming . 0
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ACCIDENTAL DEATHS ON SKIDS TELLER BEING IGNORED totals indicated that the Soviet Union - PLANNING PRODUCES BY CLINTON TEAM was thinking in terms of a surprise SHARP DECLINES The October/November National attack. He says in an October article: The number of accidental deaths Security Report (published by the The new disclosure by the Russian in 1992 in the U .S. reached another American Security Council) has this Minister of Atomic Energy that the new low. The total of 83,000 deaths to say about Dr. Edward Teller- Soviet nuclear arsenal reached the was lower than in any year since A scientist known the world over as staggering level of 45,000 warheads, 1922 when the population was under the father of the H-Bomb and the mas- more than double the count known to Western intelligence indicates that the one-half of what it is now. (We count termind behind "Star Wars" is still con- Kremlin once had concrete plans to over 253,000,000 in 1992 and less juring ideas for the defense of the Unit- launch World War III, possibly by than 110,000,000 in 1922.) ed States . Nuclear physicist Edward Teller is a man whose past ideas means of a first strike . Reasons cited are safety mea- prompted U.S. presidents to action -to 0 sures in the work place, in the home, test and build the hydrogen bomb, to at recreational facilities, and espe- expand the nuclear weapons complex HITLER COMIC BOOK cially in motor-vehicle operations. and to spend billions on a space-based GETS MIXED COMMENT Seat belts, now law, cut fatalities . nuclear missile defense. But a decade The coming air bag will do the same. after Teller convinced President Rea- The Associated Press reported Attention by law enforcement author- gan to undertake the Strategic recently that a German comic book fewer people are ities to DUI and violations . Safety Defense Initiative, idea got good and bad reactions him attention - least of all the measures across the board cut into paying from Germans. Said the report : Democrats in the White House. . .. fatalities totals . Germany has halted a plan to dis- In his latest appearance on Capitol tribute a comic book called "Hitler" to Even compared to 1991 the 1992 Hill, Teller was the lead witness at the Drownings were high school pupils after a government statistics look good . Defense Strategy Forum. Those pre- agency decided the publication could down 7% . Traffic fatalities also 7% . sent witnessed a living legend in his be seen to glorify the Nazi era. Overall there was a 5% reduction in element - peddling high science to the one-year period . policy makers . The Hungarian-born The 200-page comic book portrays Hitler's rise to power, the Nazi's cruel 1993 should be another good Teller unleashed a booming, heavily- accented voice to deliver a passionate medical experiments, bloodied year. 1994 too. speech that accused the Clinton corpses of murdered Jews and Ger- 0 Administration of "wasting time," and man troops killing French civilians. failing to seize opportunities of the The book is part of a half-million SDI INVESTMENT GOING FOR post-Cold War era. ... mark ($308,000) teachers' package FOREIGN PROTECTION, NOT U.S. LI that also contains posters and a com- High Frontier's Newswatch for BOMB BEEPERS NOW puter game showing students how to resist a Hitler-style dictatorship. November 1993 exposes a curious FOR RENT TO LONDON SDI planning philosophy . It says: BUSINESS BRASS - SKEPTICS The glossy paperback is sold for the equivalent of $15 in German book- This Administration is under pres- SHAKE THEIR HEADS stores . It's a commercial success, sure to do something about SDI In October, according to The Wall despite government reservations, with whether they want to or not . The Street Journal 5,000 personal "beep- about 30,000 copies sold so far. A response has been to spend about $3 ers" for the purpose of warning number of book reviewers have billion per year on SDI, but not for the against terrorist attacks, went on praised the concept. defense of the United States! Instead, sale in downtown London . Price : they are pouring this money into pro- The Federal Center for Political Edu- $37.39. (Rent per quarter.) The idea viding SDI defenses for Europe, the cation, a government agency that pro- was triggered by two IRS terrorist Middle East and Japan - not the Unit- vides public school materials, at first bombings in the past year. ed States . The Administration and supported the package and promised Congress emphasize "Theater Ballis- The idea was met with a good bit to distribute it to German public tic Missile Defense," which means of skepticism, however. One critic schools. that all systems would be ground- or allowed that it would soothe a good But the agency last week dropped sea-based . They have cut out the many frayed nerves but that it really its endorsement, saying the comic space borne elements almost entirely would not be effective. book could make pupils identify more - the elements which would provide Police defended the idea, and it with Hilter than with his victims. The protection for the United States while was pointed out that sirens were Israeli embassy and parliament Presi- also providing protection for our Allies ineffective because the sound failed dent Rita Suessmuth had expressed - and any other place on the planet - to penetrate many buildings. reservations about the finished ver- sion. ... as a bonus. What's more, in the name 0 of saving money, they are eliminating Jewish organizations have been SOVIETS HID the space elements which would pro- especially vocal with claims that Ger- tect us and our allies for less than a WARHEAD TOTALS? man youths get too little instruction fifth of what it costs to field the sur- The Washington Inquirer journalist about the holocaust, in which 6 million face-based systems. Albert L. Weeks thinks that Soviet arms Jews were killed . ...
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REVIEWS
VIDEO : MULTIPLE PATIENT MVA "Expertise developed in respond- helps to organize teamwork in MANAGEMENT & TRIAGE, pro- ing to this type of accident," says responding to all types of accidents. duced by Carolina Video Produc- producer Marty Dashiell, "results in a Carolina Video Productions tions, Inc. (782 Johnnie Dodds Blvd ., highly synchronized rescue team makes it clear that multicolor field Suite H, Mt . Pleasant, SC 29464) . 64 that can adapt itself effectively to a triage tags support the accident minutes . 1993 . 50-page training wide variety of emergencies ." response effort, and the METTAG manual accompanies film . Cost : The "incident command" principle triage tag is recommended by the $124.95. is adapted to the training of the organization . (In addition to the 50- - Reviewed by Kevin Kilpatrick. "MVA" team with the designation of page training manual those who one individual - a team leader - who order the film are provided with a Casualty management in supervises the response, the on-the- METTAG catalog and sample tag .) responding to accidents and disas- spot treatment, the tagging and the Carolina Video Productions has ters (where a primary problem is evacuation of casualties . "Experi- taken a big step forward in providing handling multiple casualties effec- ence tells us that supervision pays accident response teams with the tively) pays off in lives saved . That is off," says Dashiell . "It eliminates means for organizing and improving the message dramatically presented `wheel spinning' . And that makes for their response techniques. It is pro- by the new training video produced maximum effectiveness . And this fessionally done and furnishes for by Carolina Video Productions . It means that we save lives . And that's the medic a highly motivating pro- gives explicit guidance in the team- the determined goal we all have ." duction . Worth many times the work required for responding to the The focus on motor vehicle acci- investment. Recommended. accident occurring most frequently : dents is for the purpose of best possi- the multiple casualty MVA (motor ble training. It defines a specific type L'HOMME ET LES CATASTRO- vehicle accident) . of accident that occurs most often. It PHES, in collaboration with General Medical Inspector Raoul Favre. Pub- lished by France-S6lection, 9 ~ 13 rue de la Nouvelle France, 93303 Aubervilliers Cedex, France. Decem- ber 1992 . 798 pages . (In French) Price: $100.00 s/h included. - Reviewed by Bob Baffin. L'HOMME ET LES CATAS- TROPHES (Man and Catastrophes) is really an encyclopedia of disas ters. One of a kind . Its 798 large-for- mat pages deal with disasters across the board: Floods, avalanches, fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, air crashes, epidemics, technological accidents, even wartime missile attack. Analyses of major disasters, maps, pictures and tables give dra- matic backgrounds to past disasters. The pertinent facts are there. Espe- cially the fatality tables provide infor- mation on the history (1000 years or so) of these tragedies. Earthquakes, for instance, have been devastating . The earthquake table lists over 100 earthquakes . One in China in 1976 killed 242,000 people (although inde- pendent experts estimate the num- ber at 700,000) . Another in China claimed 830,000 victims. China and its neighboring Asian countries get hit harder by disaster than any other part of the world . Floods have seen more lives lost Out by air! than any other natural disaster.
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Bangladesh in 1991 lost 200,000 . In Today it is $2 billion, an increase of side over the design, production and 1981 Vietnam lost 300,000 . Floods almost 4,000%! In 1947 there was a employment of the giant weapons of already claimed 700,000 lives in budget of $100,000 per office. That mass destruction cannot really learn Bangladesh in 1970 . China lost zoomed to $3.75 million today! much from Napoleon, or Jackson, or 1,600,000 in a 1969 flood, 2,000,000 Lee, or Grant - who were all man- in a 1959 inundation, and a record "Out of every dollar earned by agers of men in combat, not of 3,700,000 in 1931 . a typical family of four, 40 cents 'weapon systems' about which one The last 150 pages of the book goes to pay taxes - that's a larg- of the most salient features is that are devoted to nuclear, chemical and er share of income than that they . . . must never be allowed to biological weapons effects and family spends on food, health come into collision ." defenses against them. Included is care, transportation, recreation He points out that we have little to an analysis of the Hiroshima attack. and clothing combined." fear from the ordinary wars that keep It notes that reinforced concrete - Wasting America's Money 11 breaking out as they have done structures fared much better than throughout history. "In most cases, conventional construction. should the governments of some Protective measures, provided in While congressional pork appears third-rate military powers still choose advance of the need for them, are to increase almost exponentially, to fight each other, then, strategically underlined as logical considerations with greed substituting for control, speaking, there is not much reason by those interested in attack survival. Congress seems to make partial for the inhabitants of the First World Here again, tables give graphic infor- amends by knocking the props out to worry. The one exception to this mation on how to prepare. For those from under preparedness planning rule, the one factor which may still familiar with French, L'Homme et les against gathering clouds of terrorism bring about not just war but Catastrophes is a remarkable course and war. Armageddon, is the possession of in disaster analysis and mitigation. All the news is not bad, however. weapons of mass destruction - in There are signs that conscientious particular, nuclear weapons - by WASTING AMERICA'S MONEY ll, congressmen are zeroing in on cor- states whose conflicts have been left by Paul Beckner. Published by Citi- rective action . A few at least . unresolved. For example, but for the zens for a Sound Economy Founda- availability to both sides of nuclear tion, 1250 H Street, NW (Suite 750), weapons, the outbreak of another NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND war between India and Pakistan Washington, D .C . 20005 . Paper- THE FUTURE OF CONFLICT - back. 166 pages . 1992 . Price : $5. would scarcely matter to anybody Martin van Creveld, The Free Press, outside the region ; however bloody it Former Senator Barry Goldwater New York, 1993, 180 pages, $22 .95 . might be, such a conflict could well says of Citizens for a Sound Econo- - Reviewed by John Bex, Col. be dismissed as a struggle between my: USAF (Ret.) two desperately poor local powers I don't know of any other group that fights so effectively for fiscal sanity in It might have been thought that over some remote border province tax-crazed Washington, D.C. with the end of the Cold War and the that both claim belongs to them." Wasting America's Money 11 elimination of the principal enemy The author considers at some underlines the irresponsibility of against which we had been prepar- length the probability of the use of Congress in its reckless spending on ing for more than a generation we nuclear weapons by the non-super would have smooth sailing in foreign powers who now possess them or projects that lobbyists encourage it will soon possess them, to fund. affairs, at least for a while. Instead, and reaches The book's introduction begins by with the ever-increasing nuclear pro- a rather reassuring conclusion . Such liferation, we now face dangers so countries have good reasons for not comparing congressmen to comedi- wanting ans. unprecedented that we are sailing in to use such ultimate Congress, it points out, spends uncharted waters, perhaps more weapons, not moral reasons, but money at the rate of $2.75 million a than in all our previous history . those of "realpolitik." Thus, there is a minute! Projects include, for The author of this book, Martin real danger that we may overreact to instance, research to the tune of $29 van Creveld, a professor of history at this danger. "Ironically, perhaps, at a million a study of the gas emitted the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, time when more countries than ever on either possess nuclear weapons or by cows . Another project gets $7 mil- Israel and author of two previous lion to study air pollution in Mexico books on modern warfare, is unusu- are planning to acquire them, it City. Farmers in one part of the Mid- ally well qualified to analyze this new appears that fears of the conse- being paid not to situation that we - and, indeed the quences of nuclear proliferation have west who were greatly grow crops benefitted by a 66-mil- entire world - find ourselves in . To been exaggerated all along. irrigation . emphasize how the world has The geopolitical circumstances sur- lion-dollar project rounding the The list goes on - and on. changed, he quotes in a chapter stances that such coun- The annual operating budget (of note to good effect from Walter Mil- tries as China, India, Pakistan, and Congress again) was $47 million in lis' book, Military History: `The mili- Israel have taken toward the Bomb 1947 shortly after World War II . tary profession who must today pre- remain very varied . . . . Nevertheless,
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REVIEWS (Cont .)
there seems to be no factual basis ther emphasized by this statement of 1,000 or more it is recommended for the claims that regional leaders under the same subchapter: that - with FEMA guidance - the do not understand the nature and Unfortunately, neither current nor booklet be printed locally. implications of nuclear weapons ; or requested levels of state funding are The Spanish version of Helping that their attitudes to those weapons sufficient to bring Florida and its politi- Children is one of a number of book- are governed by some peculiar cul- cal subdivisions to the state of readi- lets pertaining to disaster response tural biases which make them inca- ness necessary to handle future major available through FEMA. pable of rational thought." and catastrophic disasters. The Gov- Offsetting somewhat the author's ernor and the Legislature must reme- dy this crucial shortcoming if Florida is HAZARDOUS DUTY, by Major Gen- reassuring discussion is his relation to implement necessary improve- of what happened in the Israeli-Arab ments in its emergency preparedness eral John K . Singlaub . For auto- war of 1973 . He seems to regard and recovery programs and facilities. graphed copy send $25 to John K . Israel as in a different category than Singlaub, P .O . Box 19611, Alexan- that of other small countries. "In the As in the FEMA Family Disaster dria, VA 22320 . 310 pages . 1993. Preparedness booklet (reviewed face of all this, the outbreak of war in - Reviewed by Bob Baffin. October 1973 came as a tremen- below), the Florida Committee's dous shock. The Israeli government report is not apparently worried Hazardous Duty is the epic auto- during the first forty-eight hours about missiles from Cuba or else- biography of one of America's great- hardly understood what was hitting where in a wartime attack situation est soldiers. Here, General Singlaub them . . . . Shocked by this sudden dis- (at one time Florida was worried) . describes his exploits in over 40 play of pessimism on the part of the An Associated Press dispatch years of unconventional warfare, national idol (apparently Dayan, some months ago, however, does espionage, covert missions, and employing highly charged language, indicate that there is at least some frontline action in recent history's had talked of `the fall of the Third concern about the safety of high offi- pivotal military theaters : World War House of Israel'), Mrs. Meir called a cials in the event of a wartime emer- II, the Chinese Revolution, the Viet- cabinet meeting to be held on the gency. It opens as follows : nam War, and most recently the war morning of Tuesday, October 9 . At Though not on the scale of in Nicaragua. A highly decorated that meeting the decision was taken Congress' recently publicized under- OSS officer who became a founding to arm the available [nuclear] Bombs ground atomic shelter, Florida officials member of the CIA, Singlaub here and load them aboard waiting fight- have three bunkers to flee to in case draws on recently declassified er-bombers ." of a nuclear attack. records and original interviews with If missiles flew, Gov. Lawton Chiles military and government leaders, as could take cover at the 4,500-square- well as his own experiences, to vivid- FINAL REPORT, GOVERNOR'S foot West Florida Area Emergency ly describe details of key covert DISASTER PLANNING AND Operating Center at Defuniak Springs. The center's radio link with the capital operations which have never before RESPONSE REVIEW COMMITTEE is tested every two weeks. . . . been made public . A richly detailed SON HURRICANE ANDREW], 2740 chronicle of an extraordinarily adven- Centerview Drive, Tallahassee, FL The article goes on to assure us turous life and an invaluable record 32399-2100 . 89 pages (large for- that Lt. Governor Buddy MacKay of America at war. Hazardous Duty mat), 1993 . would have a "similar facility" to go to is also a monument to a true-life in the town of Starke, and that Sec- - Reviewed by Bob Baffin. hero's courage and integrity. retary of State Jim Smith would go to A New York Times book review The committee's report does a one near the town of Jupiter. had this to say about the book : highly commendable job of reviewing The people themselves, as one A revealing self-portrait of that the bruising impact of Hurricane can conclude from the Governor's perennial figure of history - the pro- Andrew in August 1992 and uses it report, would have no need for this fessional soldier . . . . Jack Singlaub as a model in recommending various kind of protection. sounds like the kind of guy you want actions that would give an exposed with you in the trenches. community a way to survive a major hurricane without the tremendous AYUDANDO A LOS NINOS A damage experienced by the area ENFRENTAR UN DESASTRE FAMILY DISASTER PREPARED- affected by Hurricane Andrew. (Spanish version of Helping Children NESS, Proceedings from the 1993 It makes 35 recommendations for Cope With Disaster) . Available from Family Protection Conference, 36 actions "Before the Storm," 93 rec- FEMA. Use a FEMA Form 60-8, or pages (large format) . Distributed by ommendations for what to do "After write FEMA, P.O. Box 70274, Wash- Federal Emergency Management the Storm" and 93 more recommen- ington, D .C . 20024 requesting L- Agency, Washington, D .C. 20472 . dations on "Funding." 196S. 1993. One subchapter is titled "Florida This Spanish-language "Helping - Kevin Devotes Insufficient Resources to Children" booklet has been shipped Reviewed by Kilpatrick. Emergency Management Programs ." out to over 13,000 addresses . It can As usual, FEMA puts out an The lack of required funding is fur- be ordered from FEMA. For orders attractive booklet that gives a one-
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two-three approach to the problem - THE WORLD AT RISK. NATURAL The big uncertainties and concerns, in this case preparing for disasters, HAZARDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE though, lie not on mean temperature mainly natural disasters . A cover let- (American Institute of Physics Con- predictions, but on related effects . ter states: ference Proceedings) . Published by : How much will oceans rise, mostly due to thermal expansion, flooding Department of Civil and Environmen- . . .The Federal Emergency Manage- the already marginal lands like tal Engineering, Massachusetts Insti- ment Agency (FEMA) Family Protec- Bangladesh? Will hurricanes, fed by tion Program is a nationwide initiative tute of Technology, Cambridge, ocean temperatures, increase in mag- to encourage people to learn about Massachusetts 02139-4307 . Editor: nitude and frequency? Are droughts hazards and take protective actions Rafael Bras, MIT. 1993. 355 pages . going to be more frequent? How will before disaster strikes. The program Price : $25 . (Checks should be made agricultural production change? Who supports emergency services and vol- payable to MIT Account 10912.) will suffer and who will benefit? What demographic and political changes unteer and other privately sponsored - Reviewed by Kevin Kilpatrick . activities designed to promote disas- will follow? In other words, what natu- ter preparedness. Points of view vary widely on the ral hazards will become disasters with environmental impact of civilization's major sociopolitical implications at the As can be expected with the effects on the environment. regional and national levels? modern FEMA, the former heavy The Massachusetts Institute of The potential for human-induced accent on wartime missile attack is Technology (MIT) study is of course climate change and other global envi- ronmental issues have captured the studiously omitted. The assumption, one to be taken dead seriously, ana- it seems, is that with the end of the attention of everybody, from the child lyzed carefully, brought sharply into in the local elementary school to the Cold War every former potential focus . belligerent is armed today with heads of state that attended the Unit- The editor's preface to the confer- ed Nations Conference on Environ- nothing but olive branches . ence proceedings gives a meaning- ment and Development. But the link- Too bad. It would seem that with ful insight as to what they were all age between global and regional ICBMs still zeroed in on America about . He writes: environmental damage and natural from their launching pads, and with There is no question that for the disasters is too commonly glossed rabid Third World countries racing to first time in history humanity has over. Ironically, this great movement develop a credible "weapons of altered the chemical composition of for global environmental protection is mass destruction" armada, it might the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, occurring during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduc- be advisable not to omit this capabili- largely the product of fossil fuels burn- increased about 270 tion (IDNDR) . The commonalities of ty as a threat. ing, has from parts per million at the beginning of these two international efforts must be But the booklet does omit it in the Industrial Revolution to about 355 emphasized and the synergism conformance with what appears to ppm in 1992. Not since 130,000 years between those involved encouraged . have been an effort over the years to ago, between two major ice ages, has With those two goals in mind the Cen- play down civil defense and finally to the Earth seen such levels of carbon ter of Global Change Science of the scrub it. dioxide. Then it was naturally pro- Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- duced as the result of little understood gy hosted a symposium on The World The cover letter also gives the fol- biochemical and physical phenomena at Risk: Natural Hazards and Man- lowing address for those desiring that spanned thousands of years in Made Hazard Mitigation Program . additional copies: the Earth's evolution. It is predicted About 200 engineers and scientists FEMA that in 40 years the concentration of dealt with issues of predicting hazards impacted climate change P .O . Box 70274. cardon dioxide could reach 600 ppm. by ... . No such levels have occurred in the Washington, D.C. 20024 There is hardly total agreement on past as far as we can tell from paleo- the likelihood of significant tempera- climate records. ture increases among scientists . But, It is commonly predicted that as a assuming that the danger real, result of such chemical changes in the is UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD atmosphere (i.e., doubling of C02 one wonders what might be a reme- WAR Il READER'S GUIDE. U .S . concentration), the global mean tem- dy . If, as indicated, fossil fuels are the culprit why Government Book. Order from perature of the earth will increase 1 .5 not use other known fuels to bring about future Superintendent of Documents, P.O . to 4°C. These predictions are fraught a that with uncertainties. Nevertheless, could limit severely their use? The Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15220- many, if not most, scientists believe recommendation that nuclear power 7954. Stock No . 008-029-00251-5. that our knowledge is sufficient to plants be exploited more widely - as $10 (payable by check, money warrant serious concern . The evi- has been done in France, for order, VISA or MasterCard - indicate dence of changes in the past 100 instance - seems to make a good bit expiration date) . Price includes ship- years is tenuous - about 0.5° global of sense. Perhaps electric cars are mean temperature increase, acceler- ping and handling . going help. ated retreat of glaciers, thinning of to Helpful too would be The guide covers the roles of the ocean ice, etc. - but sufficiently con- controls placed on the world's awe- U.S. Army and War Department in sistent to encourage study and possi- some population explosion . The five theaters of operations from bly action to prevent further changes redoubling of our population obvi- 1939-1945. in atmospheric composition. ously has to stop somewhere.
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Index to Selected Feature Articles JOURNAL OF CIVIL DEFENSE -1993 Vol. XXVI, No . 1 Vol . XXVI, No. 3 WINTER 1993 SUMMER 1993 Letter to the President-Elect from Dr. Max Klinghoffer, NATO's Responses to Cold War's End : Implications TACDA President - Subject: Preparedness - Civil for Civil Defense, by Dr. John R . Christiansen and Dr. Defense and SDI . Reed H . Blake . Wings for Recovery, by Lt . Col. Joseph T. DePaolo, Russia - Less Threatening, More Dangerous?, by CAP (Ret.). Kenneth Brown . TACDA 1992 Seminar Report (Huntsville, Alabama) . The Nuclear Black Market, by Walton McCarthy. Capital Commentary, by Jerry Strope - What's in Store Disaster Preparedness = Disaster Survival, by David for FEMA? Lobdell.
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NATURAL HAZARD REDUCTION - now officially known as High Tem- COMMENTS OF AMBASSADOR "MORE ATTENTION" NEEDED perature Accelerant (HTA) fires - are HENRY F. COOPER, . . .Six years ago the United States caused by arson, because big empty SDIO DIRECTOR UNDER National Academy of Sciences buildings are hard to burn without an PRESIDENT BUSH, BEFORE issued a report declaring the "haz- added "accelerant ." But, unlike in THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN ard-reduction successes clearly ordinary arsons, they can find no RESEARCH COMMITTEE: show that heavy losses at the hands trace of any fuel . None. Mr . Chairman, I am pleased to of nature are not inevitable ." At the "It was like science fiction," says appear before the Committee to dis- time, the academy noted that natural Richard Gehlhausen, an investigator cuss the status of the Nation's effort disasters during the preceding 20 with the Seattle Fire Department, to develop ballistic missile defenses years had killed 2.8 million people, recalling his first HTA fire . Seattle to protect the American people, our left 280 million injured or homeless, alone has had at least four, including forces abroad and our friends and and caused up to $100 billion in one that killed a firefighter. "I'd never allies. . . . damage. . . . seen anything like it," he said. "I was First, the world is still a dangerous One critical element is information hooked .". . . place, in some regards, more dan- about the nature of the hazard. In - Staff Reporter Erik Larson in The gerous than in the Cold War . I California, for example, the U .S. Wall Street Journal, October 7, applaud the Clinton administration Geological Survey has generated 1993. for continuing to emphasize the maps that not only indicate known 0 problems of proliferation of weapons faults, but show in some detail how of mass destruction and their means strong shaking would be in various FLOOD PLAIN NO MORE! of delivery, and their continuation of parts of cities like Los Angeles and Over 200 towns have expressed an important role for ballistic missile San Francisco for an earthquake of interest in relocating because of Mid- defenses - at least for our troops, a given magnitude. Such information west floods, the head of the Federal allies and friends. not only helps inform building codes, Emergency Management Agency Second, I am concerned that the but it also suggests where emergen- told a House hearing, adding that it Clinton Pentagon made substantial cy services might be most immedi- would cost $400 million to acquire cuts in the budget I left behind . . . ately needed . 10,000 structures in the affected My third point is that, while I do But two other vital elements are areas. He said incentives should be not object to giving theater missile the political will and the economic created to discourage development defenses the top priority - as was wherewithal to act on the informa- in flood plains. the implied intent of the Missile tion. As the world heads into the fifth Defense Act as well, I strongly year of the Decade of Natural Haz- - Wall Street Journal believe that the administration's dis- ard Reduction, these aspects of 0 mantling of all acquisition programs dealing with the problem will need to defend the American people is more attention. SWISS CIVIL DEFENSE imprudent .. . . The Clinton administra- - The Christian Science Monitor GROWS MORE POPULAR tion appears intent on delaying a LI At the request of the Swiss Union serious acquisition program for the for Civil Defense the Institute of Mar- U .S . homeland until the threat is SUPERFIRE STUMPS EXPERTS keting and Social Research inter- clearly apparent to all. This could be SEATTLE - Somewhere in Ameri- viewed in August 1993 927 Swiss a fatal mistake for many Americans. ca an underground entrepreneur has voters, 490 of whom were women . Fourth, it is very important that we revolutionized the business of arson To the question "Should Civil deal with the ABM Treaty - a treaty for profit. No one realized it, howev- Defense be suppressed?" 79 .9% which is, in my judgment, outdated er, until investigators here discov- replied "No." 5.6% were undecided. and counterproductive from almost ered what seems to be a national [And 14.5% answered "Yes."] any vantage point and whose legal pattern of unsolved arsons featuring . . .One of the reasons contributing status is at least uncertain given that bizarre phenomena never before to this excellent degree of approval the Soviet Union no longer exists .. . . encountered. for civil defense is certainly the suf- Fifth, I want to emphasize that Witnesses invariably report the fering of the civilian population in the SDI has already been worth the $30- same preternatural image : pillars of former Yugoslavia, but also the per- billion investment many times white-hot energy that consume vast manent modernization and growing over. . . . industrial buildings in minutes, even popularity of our [Swiss] civil Sixth [Ambassador Cooper cites those containing no flammable mate- defense. the irresponsible claim of The New rial. Fire investigators combing the York Times that a 1984 test of SDI rubble find melted steel and concrete According to the interview women was rigged]. . . . turned to glass . Yet normal fires, are (still) more in favor of civil Mr. Chairman, SDI has been well even those set with gasoline, aren't defense than men . . . . worth the investment, by almost any supposed to get hot enough to do - Zivilschutz (Swiss civil defense standard you wish to apply. But most such damage. They know the fires - publication) . important, it has provided the techni-
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cal basis for protecting the American AIDS CONTROL IN JAPAN friendly or neutral to extremely hostile people against ballistic missile Last year for the first time, Japan to the United States and our allies. attack. I hope that we collectively registered over 1,000 victims of AIDS. Meanwhile, North Korea is testing a have the political will to follow The precise figure, 1,046, is amazing- new missile capable of hitting Japan. through before such a defense is ly small for a country the size of The Japanese are therefore seriously needed . Japan. How can 120 million people considering producing nuclear really be so well educated or weapons (they can do so in a short 0 behaved? . . . time) . United States forces in Korea The Japanese government has will be at serious risk within the next NUCLEAR WEAPONS STORAGE taken a number of common sense several years, if not already. IN UKRAINE - UNSAFE?? steps to control the spread of the HIV Temperatures and radiation levels virus, including : UNITED STATES FORCES have risen at a southern Ukrainian " an aggressive education campaign IN KOREA WILL BE military depot because authorities (that does not rely on condom distribu- AT SERIOUS RICK have stored too many nuclear war- tion but does point out the risk posed by certain sex acts); heads in one place, Russian officials " a comprehensive testing program ; said . Other countries now in possession and of, or are in the process of acquiring, Maj. Gen. Vitaly Yakoviev of the " the careful monitoring of AIDS Russian military's nuclear ammuni- missiles and mass destruction war- patients, including tracing sex partners heads include : Afghanistan ; Algeria; tion department told the daily news- for possible infection . paper Izvestia there is no immediate Argentina; Brazil; Egypt (which is dan- danger of an explosion or meltdown gerously close to becoming a funda- at the site. AIDS VICTIMS AUTOMATICALLY mentalist Moslem state) ; India ; But Russian military experts who BECOMES SOCIAL OUTCASTS Indonesia ; Iran ; Iraq ; Israel ; Libya; traveled last week to the depot, Pakistan ; Saudi Arabia ; Spain; South about 160 miles south of Kiev in the Africa; Syria; Taiwan; Vietnam and Once identified, carriers of HIV are Yemen. town of Pervomaisk, found "flagrant monitored by the committee but in the violations of nuclear safety rules," Our treaty obligations, and the dis- utmost secrecy. No one knows who position of military forces around the Gen. Yakoviev told the newspaper. has AIDS unless the patient chooses Ukrainian military authorities world, can easily involve this country to disclose. This rarely occurs since in a regional conflict, many of which denied any serious problems at the AIDS victims automatically become are occurring at the present time. site, according to Ukrainian news social outcasts. The small number of reports. What are the odds against our patients, who live mainly in the greater involvement? . . . (Quoted from The Washington Times.) Tokyo area, make it easier for treat- - High Frontier Newswatch. ment to be monitored. . . . - High Frontier Newswatch (Maj. Much of Japan's success in con- Gen. Milnor Roberts, AUS.) LI taining AIDS is ultimately attributable 0 to its application of sensible health UN WAR BUNKER FOR NEW YORK practices and its society's unique prej- GORBACHEV CONCERN : CIVIL WAR President Clinton plans to put up udice against foreigners . $10 million to establish a United It's societally-induced xenophobia . . . In 1990 [Mikhail Gorbachev] Nations War Room in New York City. has encouraged a latent distrust for issued this chilling statement : "If we This will be the command center for foreigners ; this in turn has led all begin to divide up, I'll give it to you UN Military operations around the Japanese to see AIDS as a Western bluntly. We will end up in such a civil world, as well as a military beachhead disease. war, in such bloody carnage, that we in the U.S. The idea fits nicely with - The New York Guardian won't be able to crawl out of it. . . . It will the plans of Assistant Secretary of (Jeremy Bradshaw). pit all peoples and all nations against Defense-designate Morton Halperin . each other and bring about a situation The anti-military, anti-CIA, former 0 in this society the likes of which have head of the ACLU's Washington never been witnessed by our country Office has long advocated U .S. sub- TOYING WITH RISK or the world." A splintering of the Russian military servience to the New World Order in . . .Red China, Russia, Ukraine and military matters . Colin Powell's would put thousands of nuclear Kazakhstan have the capabilities and weapons in the hands of the splinter- replacement, Gen. "Shall" Sha- the mass destruction missiles to strike likashvili, is in lock-step on the plan. group leaders. The haunting specter the United States homeland at pre- of several different parties owning and Did you raise your son or daughter to sent. Now. Today. These weapons become a mercenary in the Army of using nuclear weapons on one anoth- are not going to go away, and in sev- er is becoming a serious possibility. . . . the New World Order? Guess again. eral of those countries the form of - The Pink Sheet on the Left. government can change quickly from - World News Digest.
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Journal of Civil Defense: Winter 1994 3 1 " EDITORIAL NICE GUYS TACDA's insistence on preparedness has many dedicated supporters . But not as many supporters as detrac- tors . Disasters are unpleasant. Worse, they kill people, destroy property. Contemplating their effects takes a good bit of negative thinking. "Nice people" don't sink to that level. Take California and its recent devastating fires and mud slides. Preparations against their effects would have taken some planning against the "unthinkable." Better to bask in the beauty of living high on the hog and not worry about highly disagreeable possibilities . Well, the disaster happened . Prepare for another? Of course not! The sun is shining. The sea breezes are cool . Bring out the cups and coolers. "Fun" is the word. Or take the Midwest flood. There were some towns that wanted to relocate to high ground. But that's a pass- ing fancy. Rivers are to live on, build by, enjoy. A flood every two centuries or so? An earthquake? It won't happen this year, or next. Let's gamble that it won't happen ever. That's positive thinking. And cheap. Then there was Hurricane Andrew. And Hurricane Iniki . And Hurricane Hugo in 1989. And the certainty that more are on the way. But, again, planning for disasters can't beat planning for sunshine and flowers. Building codes are for the birds. Some talk. But action? Forget it! A little fussing when the next hurricane hits . But that's all. We're optimists . Another disagreeable subject, and a real disaster measured by the exploding number of victims is AIDS. But AIDS patients need sympathy (They really do!) . They have rights. This is the important consideration . Control? Well, that's difficult . A lot of bother. However, control is possible. Japan has imposed it (see page 29 of this issue of the Journal). Cuba also. Result: very few AIDS victims. But it's a nuisance . It takes disagreeable action. Not for nice people . Nice people in Colorado Springs objected to TACDA's plan to show a film on a gays parade aimed to influence youth, and TACDA's executive director scrubbed it. (A mistake .) More disagreeable than any of the above is modern warfare. Recognizing the fact that the United States (and other countries) could be reduced to missile fodder by missiles now on line is frightening. It's not nice to be fright- ened or to frighten others . Better to shelve all worries and walk in the sunshine. It is significant that even FEMA, with its mission of preparedness, tends to adopt the "nice guy" role . Famous football coach Vince Lombardi used to say : "Nice guys don't win." Something to remember.
On last Veterans Day President Bill Clinton is quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the United States must never shrink from what's necessary "to keep our nation secure and our people prosperous ." It would be good if he meant it . Then in-place hard-core protection for Congress, other officials and key per- sonnel in emergency operations centers could be extended to the people themselves. And SDI could be rescued. Would peace be worth it? Or not?
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