Civil Defense, 1946–Present
Even before they fully understood the devastation wrought at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans began to imagine what nuclear attacks on their own cities would be lik...
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Civil Defense
As airplanes first began to appear in warfare in the early years of the twentieth century, war's destruction suddenly extended beyond the battlefields to towns and cities. Increas...
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Civil Defense
Office of Civilian Defense …36
Thomas A. Scott …46
Helena H. Smith and William Sloane …57
As war spread through Europe and Asia in 1940 and 1941, President Franklin ...
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Yellowish smoke filled a schoolyard and soldiers wailed in pretended anguish in a simulated chemical attack Tuesday, the start of a major civil defense exercise to demonstrate lessons learned from ...
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A U.N.-backed court sentenced two former leaders of a pro-government militia to six and eight years in prison Tuesday for brutalities committed during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war.The rulin...
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Two former members of a pro-government militia were convicted of war crimes Thursday, the second round of rulings by a U.N.-backed court attempting to punish those most responsible for brutalities ...
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Crews battling dangerously high levels of methane gas recovered 19 bodies from a coal mine in northeast Colombia following an explosion that killed 32 miners, a civil defense official said Sunday.E...
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Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 4 storm Saturday as it spun more than 1,000 miles south of Hawaii.At 5 a.m. HST, Flossie had intensified with maximum sustained winds near 132 mph, and ...
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Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 4 storm Saturday as it spun more than 1,000 miles south of Hawaii.The hurricane could pass by Hawaii late Tuesday or early Wednesday, forecasters said, ...
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Clouds of dust lingered over a hill of rubble Thursday that once was Pisco's San Clemente church before a powerful earthquake sent its soaring ceiling tumbling down on hundreds of worshippers durin...
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National leaders of an anti-illegal immigration group said Monday they were postponing their conference but would still hold it in Kansas City, in part to support one of their members on a local pa...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - A Kansas City parks
official whose membership in an anti-illegal immigration group
sparked the cancellation of two conventions here has resigned. Kansas City parks boa...
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A city parks board appointee has resigned after her controversial membership in an anti-illegal immigration group led two organizations to take their annual conventions elsewhere.Frances Semler, 74...
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Civil Defense, 1946–Present
Civil Defense
Israelis stage civil defense exercise
