Civil Defense Abroad

By TACDA | October 27, 2017
Brick church and stone bridge, lush green setting.

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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Never Despair

By TACDA | April 5, 2017
A man in a suit and hat making the peace sign.

March 1, 1955. (House of Commons) This was the last great speech made by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons. It was listened to with deep respect and almost total silence in a packed Chamber. It contains the last of the remembered Churchill phrases  safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival…

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Pragmatic Civil Defense

By TACDA | March 14, 2017
Black and white portrait of a man.

By W. E. Manry, Jr., M.D . Published in the Journal of Civil Defense; October 1987 (Dr. W. E. “Bill” Manry looks at American civil defense without the soporific “benefits” of apathy, wishful thinking and procrastination. This leads him to some shocking conclusions about the fate of his fellowman when the nuclear chips are down.…

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