Civil Defense Resource Page
This page features reports, videos and other publications related to civil defense published from the 1950s thru 1980s. They may still today be of special interest to practitioners and historians alike. Please select any of the links below or in the sidebar and browse the results. See too our collection of videos.
Civil defense reports collection
Online magazine articles
- Atomic Air Wardens First Workout
- Biological Warfare Threat
- Communicable diseases and epidemics
- Civil Defense and public apathy
- Civil Defense - fix it or forget it
- Civil Defense Urban Analysis
- Emergency Hot Squad
- Facts about fallout shelters
- Family Fallout Shelter
- History of Civil Defense in the United States
- Interim Guide for the Design of Buildings Exposed to Atomic Blast
- Local fallout radioactivity
- Mass Evacuation
- Planning an effective civilian defense
- Shelter or evacuation
- Shelter from Atomic Attack in Existing Buildings
- That Carter Evacuation Plan
- The Occasion Instant
- What you should know, what you should do
Civil defense video collection
- About Fallout 1963
- About Fallout - OCD
- Duck and Cover 1951
- Fire ignition and spread - DCPA - 1977
- Operation Cue 1964
- Survival under atomic attack
- Olney School of Survival
- The sword and the shield: primer for survival series
- Post-Attack World: A Primer for Survival Series
- A Fact of Life: A Primer for Survival Series
- Mission: Fallout
- Operation in Public Shelters
- Emergency Operation Center
- Cummings City
- Earthquake
- Introduction to radiation
- One week in October
- A primer for survival - fallout
- Retrospect 1- who and what is civil defense
- Retrospect 2- shelter construction
- Retrospect 3- shelter and evacuation
- Retrospect 4 - rural civil defense
- Retrospect 5 - family interview #1
- Retrospect 6 - stocking your shelter
- Retrospect 7 - radiation and contamination
- Retrospect 8 - why civil defense
- Retrospect 9 - warning
- Retrospect 10 - family interview #2
- Retrospect 11 - personal responsibility
- Retrospect 12 - why shelter
- Retrospect 13 - first aid
