Using Emergency Management During Civil Unrest

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Shared with permission from Sitch Radio “This Week we are talking about what is the role of emergency management before, during and after the protests and the subsequent civil unrest? Today emergency managers have been part of training and exercises for planned and unplanned protests. As the current protests of George Floyd continue, how will…

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How To Prepare for ANY disaster!

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Our friends at The Provident Prepper were recently interviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Here’s what they said about what it takes to be prepared for, well…anything! COVID-19 Caught US Off Guard. Here’s What Disaster Preppers Say We Needed To Do All Along: https://www.detroitnews.com/…/covid-19-caught-u…/5354712002/Story by Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times. Published 4:49 p.m. ET…

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Executive Order on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of…

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Civil Defense Abroad

From the “Journal Archives” …..Journal of Civil Defense, Jan-Feb 1978 Reports and repercussions of the 1977 American “Civil Defense Debate” are appearing in foreign publications. In Great Britain, The Journal of the Institute of Civil Defense digs into Congressional hearings and says: One Republican, Congressman William Whitehurst, also argued that it would be criminal to…

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What to Do With Good News?

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By Edward Teller, Ph.D. (published in the Journal of Civil Defense, Spring 1993) I had just finished a delightful lunch with my grandson. At the end of it, he made a statement as horrible as it was surprising: “A few years ago,” he said, “I thought that the human race would not survive the 21st…

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History of the 1960s Fallout Shelter Program

In response to an inquiry by Michael McFall, reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune By Paul Seyfried The National Facility Survey, done in the 1960s, reveals a valuable history of fallout shelters. President Kennedy was a strong advocate of a national shelter program, much like Switzerland’s shelter program is today. His shelter program was modeled…

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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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