The Office of Civil Defense, however, is solely responsible for the validity and accuracy of the information in the handbook.
Table of Contents
[Introduction]
[PART I]: NUCLEAR ATTACK
[Chapter 1]--Checklist of Emergency Actions
[Chapter 2]---Understand the Hazards of Nuclear Attack
[Chapter 3]--Know About Warning
[Chapter 4]--Fallout Shelters, Public and Private
[Chapter 5]--Improvising Fallout Protection
[Chapter 6]--Supplies for Fallout Shelters
[Chapter 7]--Water, Food, and Sanitation in a Shelter
[Chapter 8]--Fire Hazards
[Chapter 9]--Emergency Care of the Sick and Injured
[PART II]: MAJOR NATURAL DISASTERS
[Chapter 1]--General Guidance
[Chapter 2]--Floods and Hurricanes
[Chapter 3]--Tornadoes
[Chapter 4]--Winter Storms
[Chapter 5]--Earthquakes
[Index]
INTRODUCTION
A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere.
It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack on the United States.