Computer Procedures for Civil Defense Damage Assessment Program
Computer Procedures for Civil Defense Damage Assessment Program

Author: Edmund J. Wells

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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One of the requisites of sound civil defense planning is the capability of predicting the results of nuclear attacks on the United States. Stanford Research Institute has been engaged by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) to develop a system for the assessment of damage resulting from such attacks. This system as devised by the Institute includes: 1. Data on population and critical resources recorded in a form suitable for machine processing. 2. A method for determining the effects of nuclear weapons on population and critical resources. 3. Machine techniques for handling the computational work and the tabulation of results. The machine techniques (Item 3 above) have been developed around the IBM 650 because this computer was locally available at the Stanford computer center. This basic program can be adapted for use with other machines.

Development of Civil Defense Damage Assessment Programs
Development of Civil Defense Damage Assessment Programs

Author: Leo A. Schmidt

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13:

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This study documents efforts leading towards the development of a national damage assessment system to analyze damage resulting from a nuclear attack. It describes conversion of a number of programs from the IDA computer to that currently used at the FEMA Olney Computer Center. It documents computer programs developed for road network data base management and for nationwide fallout dose calculations. A narrative description of study activities and conclusions concerning requirements for damage assessment systems are presented.

Continuity of Government: How the U.S. Government Functions After All Hell Breaks Loose
Continuity of Government: How the U.S. Government Functions After All Hell Breaks Loose

Author: Douglas E. Campbell

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-12-16

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1365614425

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The term "Continuity of Government," or COG, runs from the dubious "duck and cover" method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion to the more serious measures of continual government inventories of grain silos, the Strategic National Stockpile, the uncapping of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the dispersal of transportable bridges, water purification, mobile refineries, mobile de-contamination facilities, mobile general and special purpose disaster mortuary facilities. For anyone researching in the field of COG - from Civil Defense to Presidential succession to the various U.S.-based COG operations (Operations OPAL, ALERT, BUSTER, JANGLE. DESERT ROCK, UPSHOT, KEYHOLE, etc.), this book reflects two years of research by the author within the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Of interest may be the first 100 pages on the history of COG and also the listing of thousands of COG-related titles that rest on the shelves in NARA for your additional scrutiny.