The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-12-22

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Gratis of Civil Defense on the Ameri
can people?
Senator Young of Ohio tells u:
any security spawned by Civil De
Tense is false security. In this ageto1
| guided missiles and nuclear warheads
| Civil Defense is obsolete. Inter-con'
tinental ballistic missiles fired from
the heart of Siberia would take Is
to Is minutes to reach targets in this
country.
Shelter from an H-bomb in a tar
get area is impossible. The ten mega
ton bombs today are $50 times more
powerful than the Hiroshima A-bomo.
One of the biggest bombs could result
in firestorms covering an area of six
western states. Such bombs could be
detonated simultaneously at a high
altitude and would result in fire
storms raging over the entire in
habited surface of North America.
You might as well crawl into your
oven and turn on the broiler as to
crawl into fall out shelter. The prob
lem will not be fallout but uncon-
trollable firestorms and against these
there is no defense.
Gerhard Piel, published of "Scien-
tific American" states: "The bigger
the weapon the more preponderantly
it becomes an incendiary weapon.
Blast proof shelters lin Germany and
Japan) afforded no protection against
CT fhai, Re
found suffocated and cremated when
the shelters were opened. The in
cendiary effect can be magnified
still further by bursting the bigger
weapons at very high altitude. Since
the atmosphere lies closer to the
ground, there is little loss Of energy
and the cone of effective thermal
radiation gains still wider radius
at its base.
'It is evident from Civil Defense
literature that no adequate considera-
ton has been given to the incendiary
aspect of thermonuclear war. The
effort to establish fallout shelters in
the central cities will provide such
protection if fallout is the hazard
to which the population is exposed. |
If not, these shelters will trap the |
urban populations in blast and fire"
1t is time the people who are push
ing Civil Defense learn something
about The Bomb they are supposed
to be defending us against. We can
only judge the destruction of these |
giant bombs by multiplying what hap
pened at Hiroshima:
First came the binding light, as |
f the sun were splitting apart. Three |
hundred thousand persons were
blinded, though some only Temporal
ly. The brilliance blocked out all |
substance. People CROPPED in
he darkness with unseeing eyes.
Second came intolerable heat esti-
mated at ten thousand degrees cent?
Grade. The inverted cone of heat ex-
ended approximately 200 feet above
he ground and was over 1900 yards
n diameter and revolved on an in
-icible axis. The people beneath the
one were incinerated Immediately.
dore than $4,000 people bear the
caring scars of the bomb called
DEVILS claw marks.
Third. the deafening noise that
ould be heard 80 miles away and
ounded like volcano at that dis
ance. Close in the noise destroyed
ne power to hear and deafness was
dded to the blindness and the inferno
f heat.
Fourth. the wind which rendered
unconscious three hundred thousand
eople. 1t tore the clothing from
urned and bleeding bodies, flayed
lem with broken glass and splinters,
rove dirt in like pellets, picked them
p and hurled them back to earth
gain.s. Clouds of radioactive dust
'rmed the mushroom cloud of death
ooye the city.
Fifth. the greatest destroyer of all,
re. rLeaping, playing, balls and sheets
flame wererli ke1dev gone mad.
re was everywhere at once, lying
| the ground, hurting along the
reefs, changing direction suddenly,
ting into everything it touched,
nSl1y,1ir,U q II life to tho boyoo poor1o IN