comes from both a tommy and hydrogen weapon as predator civil defense administrator i'd like to talk to you about that from the first country is every subjected to an enemy attack what i'm going to show you now might some this is an artist's conception of falla actually what happens is that if the baton explodes close to the ground or into the ground thousands of tons of poverty arise earth and stone steel particles are sucked up into the crowd forty or fifty thousand feet into the air these probably goes become highly radioactive much of this material spills out of the much room wind not here is wrong highly significant point radioactive for a lot can occur from an absolutely clear sky you do not have to see the atomic cloud itself over your head to be in a fair lot area i'm not here to try and fight as a matter of fact americans just don't scare easily anyway and it's a good thing great that they don't in this atomic age but it is a part of my job as federal civil defense administrators to give you the fact here they are as far as we know them at this time nuclear weapons and comic and hydrogen bombs are like produce radioactivity with a smaller atomic weapons we did not have to worry too much about fell o with the larger atomic bombs and especially with hydrogen weapons radioactive dust will settle to earth far beyond the range of fire and biased in the direction of the prevailing winds at the time of the explosion now  iraq will be a threat not only to so called target areas but to many smaller communities than remove from the cities under attack and in fact every farmer living within the area rhian from the target area and over the distance that the wind may carry these radioactive particles as a matter of fact the communities that lie down when may very well after withdrawal their people from the danger zone laterally and there will be time because radio active cell rock takes a considerable time to occur or the people will have to get into shelters of some type or other just as rapidly as you can these radioactive particles could call your death or they may cause you serious injury depending upon the degree of contamination and other factors from much from the threat now what are we going to do about it we are still running things about the behavioral radioactive fallout from the larger weapons but from a president we do know enough about the size and power of modern weapons and the radioactive waste they produce to begin planning how we can best protect ourselves basically there are only two things you need to know how to do to protect your life one is to evacuate your study before the bomb fell because obviously if you are correct in the open near ground zero you won't have to worry about radiation the bomb itself will kill you the other method is to dig deep enough into the ground escape the effects of blast and heat and radiation not come in look at this layout of a typical city let's say that right here is the assumed any point of enemy bombers and  rather bureau tells us that the wind will probably carry radioactive further out downwind in this direction when we speak of the regions incidentally and of the h bomb we're talking not only of surface win after all the winds high up twenty five forty and fifty thousand feet above the earth those are the winds that carry the major portion of radioactive material from the bomb blast what up to now the picture looks pretty bad but with enough warning and enough practice in peacetime exercise many millions of lives can be saved that surely would be otherwise left now let's take another case before you live in a small own evacuation routes lies down when almost any kind of shelter can reduce the dangers of radiation an ordinary frame house like this outside the area of blast and fire will provide some protection a basement chartered the provide even lower while a simple underground shelter with three feet of earth covering the give you a virtually complete protection from lethal radiation one thing we want to remember about shelter however it is that once in it you may not be able to go outdoors for several days except for short periods radiation contrary to some scary stories you may have heard doesn't contaminate the countryside for ever get sleep or strength died very rapidly sometimes in a few hours but it might be a couple of days or even longer before you would be safe to leave your shelter other gather for some time we have heard urged that every family that possibly can build a basement charter or an outdoor job or if they live in the so called fringe areas of our major cities today with the danger of radiation for a lot over long distances it is equally important that residents of suburban and rural areas many miles removed from major battery operated radio calls will enable you to receive several defense news and instructions over the car and emergency radio broadcasting frequencies at six forty and twelve forty on your  civil defense in the final analysis has always been a local problem some areas for instance could be a back you waited practically around a three hundred sixty degree circle in other areas such as this one great city has an ocean on one side and may be surrounded by rivers evacuation problems will be far more difficult civil defense like military defense must be flexible and adaptable both to new weapons and varying local conditions i write to emphasize this one point in probably we'll do whatever we can in the federal government to get civil defense director of your own you can't he has not big job job it could save your life the lives of your family your neighbors the light of our nation