Civil Defense: Hearings Before a Subcommittee, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - Civil defense |
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... give a bird's - eye view of some of the civil effects tests being performed as one of the scientific and technical groups under the direction of Dr. Gerald Johnson , scientific test di- rector , Operation Plumbbob . This group of tests ...
... give a bird's - eye view of some of the civil effects tests being performed as one of the scientific and technical groups under the direction of Dr. Gerald Johnson , scientific test di- rector , Operation Plumbbob . This group of tests ...
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... give more protection than would be available to a person in the average house , especially those without basement . Others were designed to give a high degree of protection under overpressures of the order of 20-30 pounds per square ...
... give more protection than would be available to a person in the average house , especially those without basement . Others were designed to give a high degree of protection under overpressures of the order of 20-30 pounds per square ...
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... Give us the rest of this as it is written , will you please , Mr. Corsbie ? Will you follow through on that ? I think it is something we may want to look at very carefully and if you skip over it as you have the rest , we will not get ...
... Give us the rest of this as it is written , will you please , Mr. Corsbie ? Will you follow through on that ? I think it is something we may want to look at very carefully and if you skip over it as you have the rest , we will not get ...
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... give a short summary of background work in Nevada and in the laboratory which leads to the Plumbbob investigations . In 1951 , the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Civil Defense Administration tested a number of shelters . At ...
... give a short summary of background work in Nevada and in the laboratory which leads to the Plumbbob investigations . In 1951 , the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Civil Defense Administration tested a number of shelters . At ...
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... give more protection than would be available to a person in the average house , especially those without basement . Oth- ers were designed to give a high degree of protection under over- pressures of the order of 20 to 30 pounds per ...
... give more protection than would be available to a person in the average house , especially those without basement . Oth- ers were designed to give a high degree of protection under over- pressures of the order of 20 to 30 pounds per ...
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areas attack BENJAMIN TAYLOR billion biological blast loading blast shelters bombs CETG Chairman Civil Defense Administration Civilian Mobilization committee concrete coordination CORSBIE cost damage Defense Mobilization delegated departments and agencies detonation Director dose engineering estimate Executive exposure FACCI fallout protection fallout shelters FASCELL FCDA Federal Civil Defense field FINAN functions GALLAGHER gamma gamma rays going Government HARRIS HOEGH HOLIFIELD kilotons laboratory LIPSCOMB materials maximum measures ment military MINSHALL missile neutron Nevada test Nevada test site nonmilitary defense nuclear weapons Office of Civilian Office of Defense Operation Greenhouse Operation Plumbbob Operation Teapot overpressure personnel pounds per square President pressure problem protective construction question radiation radiological defense reorganization plan responsibility ROBACK roentgens shelter design shelter program shielding shock tube slide square inch structures subcommittee survival testimony tion TOMPKINS underground VORTMAN weapons effects
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Page 323 - OF 1953 [Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, March 25, 1953, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, approved June 20, 1949, as amended] DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE SECTION 1.
Page 324 - Welfare of any of the records, property, personnel and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and other funds of the Department which relate to functions affected by this reorganization plan.
Page 323 - Secretary), who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments.
Page 343 - No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of...
Page 17 - That individual persons not receive more than a total accumulated dose to the reproductive cells of 50 roentgens up to age 30 years (by which age, on the average, over half of the children will have been born...
Page 323 - Sec. 5. Officers of the Administration, (a) There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator of Drug Enforcement, hereinafter referred to as "the Administrator." The Administrator shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for positions of level III of the Executive Schedule Pay Rates (5 USC 5314).
Page 412 - App. 2251 note), to be responsible for development, coordination, guidance, and leadership of a national program of civil defense designed to protect life and property in the United States from attack.
Page 323 - Sec. 2. Performance of functions of Secretary. The Secretary of the Interior may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department of the Interior of any function of the Secretary, including any function transferred to the Secretary by the provisions of this reorganization plan.
Page 78 - This research is being supported by the Division of Biology and Medicine of the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Institutes of Health of the Public Health Service as well as many other governmental and nongovernmental groups.
Page 516 - During the months following the merger of the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the Office of Defense Mobilization into the...