Titles.
Introduction by presenter Dave Garroway in Washington DC hearing room re Civil Defense debates of 1963 - reports which resulted from hearings - support for Public Shelter program - main question “what kind of life can they expect in the devastated post-attack world when they came out of those shelters?”. CUs government officials to be interviewed on this topic - talking heads.
10:52:24 Asst. Secretary of Defense Stuart L. Pittman - “if you are in one of these areas called ‘under the bomb’...most of the life would be destroyed in that area...beyond that you would have another fringe of destruction...” - discusses settling of radioactive fallout in wider area.
10:54:17 Walmer Strobe ?, Head of Civil Defense Research - talks re likely targeting of military bases by enemy - but “...fallout from this attack would have drifted over a large part of the country...”
10:55:40 Dr Frederick Seitz, President of National Academy of Sciences - “...the places where the missile sites are would be pretty well obliterated...there might have been panic, some might drift back to the cities...the problem would be fallout...” - doubts nuclear attack could wipe out humanity.
10:57:04 Pittman “the public generally is under the misapprehension that the level of destruction would be so great as to be hopeless...the problem is highly responsive to preparation”.
10:57:25 Strobe - “our knowledge of what the long term effects on the balance of nature would be is fairly limited...an eventual balance would occur...”
10:58:08 Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman - “the likelihood is that substantial parts of rural America would be relatively unaffected, our growing crops that might be slightly contaminated probably could still be used, animals that had been protected from fallout could still be slaughtered and eaten”.
10:58:40 Seitz re domestic animals. Pittman “the ray penetrating the food does no damage at all”. Strobe “problems involved with taking radioactivity into the body are very much less severe that the external fallout on the ground irradiating you”.
11:00:10 Freeman - “As Secretary of Agriculture I can assure you that should this nation be struck by a nuclear attack that we will have an adequate two years supply of food and fiber...”. Pittman - Americans “are a vigorous people”.
11:01:17 Garroway wraps up - “it’s your concern and mine that it does not happen ...but shelter may mean your survival”.
Cold War Paranoia; Nuclear Threat; Atomic Bomb; Public Information;
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Titles. Introduction by presenter Dave Garroway in Washington DC hearing room re Civil Defense debates of 1963 - reports which resulted from hearings - support for Public Shelter program - main question “what kind of life can they expect in the devastated post-attack world when they came out of those shelters?”. CUs government officials to be interviewed on this topic - talking heads. 10:52:24 Asst. Secretary of Defense Stuart L. Pittman - “if you are in one of these areas called ‘under the bomb’...most of the life would be destroyed in that area...beyond that you would have another fringe of destruction...” - discusses settling of radioactive fallout in wider area. 10:54:17 Walmer Strobe ?, Head of Civil Defense Research - talks re likely targeting of military bases by enemy - but “...fallout from this attack would have drifted over a large part of the country...” 10:55:40 Dr Frederick Seitz, President of National Academy of Sciences - “...the places where the missile sites are would be pretty well obliterated...there might have been panic, some might drift back to the cities...the problem would be fallout...” - doubts nuclear attack could wipe out humanity. 10:57:04 Pittman “the public generally is under the misapprehension that the level of destruction would be so great as to be hopeless...the problem is highly responsive to preparation”. 10:57:25 Strobe - “our knowledge of what the long term effects on the balance of nature would be is fairly limited...an eventual balance would occur...” 10:58:08 Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman - “the likelihood is that substantial parts of rural America would be relatively unaffected, our growing crops that might be slightly contaminated probably could still be used, animals that had been protected from fallout could still be slaughtered and eaten”. 10:58:40 Seitz re domestic animals. Pittman “the ray penetrating the food does no damage at all”. Strobe “problems involved with taking radioactivity into the body are very much less severe that the external fallout on the ground irradiating you”. 11:00:10 Freeman - “As Secretary of Agriculture I can assure you that should this nation be struck by a nuclear attack that we will have an adequate two years supply of food and fiber...”. Pittman - Americans “are a vigorous people”. 11:01:17 Garroway wraps up - “it’s your concern and mine that it does not happen ...but shelter may mean your survival”. Cold War Paranoia; Nuclear Threat; Atomic Bomb; Public Information; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.