During the Cold War, civil defense became a household concept ... one of the most neglected aspects of national security. The Bunker Set shouldn’t be the only group with a survival plan.

The end of the Cold War was not kind to Reading’s Emergency ... many decades ago with all of the furniture, equipment and Civil Defense survival rations inside. As city workers finally got ...

Officials say the exercise is not a signal of imminent conflict but part of a longstanding framework under the Civil Defence Rules, 1968 — regulations dating back to the Cold War era but being ...

Total defense means mobilizing the whole of society to defend against military and nonmilitary threats, including asking ...

The massive underground fortress was Canada’s front line in the defence of North America at a time when the threat of nuclear war felt imminent. Built at the height of Cold War tensions ...

Erie Civil Defense officials planned the nation's first mass evacuation drill in 1954. It was the Cold War, and the idea was, if the Soviets launched a nuclear attack, Erie residents would calmly get ...

The drill was staged during the early years of the Cold War. Civil Defense efforts later focused on sheltering in place. It was known as Operation Drive Out. And it was to be the largest mass ...

When the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) orders a nationwide civil defence drill across 244 districts ... or traffic diversions. Cold War Lessons, Indian Context Such drills harken back to Cold ...

The Cold War bunker, built in 1953 to co-ordinate defence in the event of a nuclear attack, was sold at auction on Wednesday 23 April. Locat Holding Ltd, the purchaser, has plans to use the bunker as ...

As Peter MacLeod, Canada’s leading voice on civic engagement, reminds us, our civil defence program trained civilians to respond to nuclear warfare during the Cold War. Volunteers co-ordinated ...