11 Tips for a Safe 4th of July

Medical Author: Melissa Conrad Stppler, MD Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR Be a safe swimmer. Water sports and fireworks are two of the biggest pastimes for Fourth of July celebrations, and these are both linked to numerous deaths and injuries each year. Never swim alone, and make sure that kids’ water…

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Roadblocks to Civil Defense

By Eugene P. Wigner??– (Nov. 1902 – Jan. 1995) ??Renowned physicist and civil defense analyst. Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1963. (NOTE: This article was originally published in one of TACDA’s first issues of the Journal of Civil Defense??- forty-six years ago, June 1968. It is interesting that, even after all these years,…

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