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• Actions of the Population in a Rural Area when the Civil Defense Signals Are Given

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  "The document covers information citizens should have in order to prepare for defense against weapons of mass destruction, and to know what to do when civil defense signals are given as well as during the elimination of the effects of the enemy attack."

  United States. Department of the Navy

  Isakov, G. P.

  1968-05-20
• Radiological Monitoring for Instructors: Student Workbook, Revised

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  From the Abstract: "This student workbook includes the necessary materials and some of the references needed by each student during the conduct of the Radiological Monitoring for Instructors (RMI) course. The contents include a radiation exposure record, instrument exercise materials, fallout forecasting problems, dose and dose rate problems, source handling techniques, quizzes and answer sheets, and a RMI course examination answer sheet."

  United States. Office of Civil Defense

  1968-04
• Hurricane Season of 1967

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  This document summarizes the 1967 hurricane season in the North Atlantic.

  National Hurricane Center (2012- )

  Sugg, Arnold L.; Pelissier, Joseph M., 1937-

  1968-04
• Fire Control Notes (Vol.29 No.2)

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  This is the April 1968 edition (Volume 29, No.2) of Fire Control Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1968-04
• National Security Action Memorandum 368: Intelligence Information Handling System

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  National Security Action Memorandum 368 tasked the Director of Central Intelligence to prepare a proposal for the "phased implementation of a community-wide information handling system to insure the secure and efficient dissemination, processing, storage and retrieval of intelligence information." The Director was charged with consulting with the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in the preparation of the report, which was to be submitted by mid-1968. The directive is signed by W. W. Rostow (Walt Whitman Rostow), economic historian who during his career was involved in foreign policy and political affairs, and became one of the leading advisers to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War.

  United States. White House Office

  1968-02-09
• Annual Report of the Office of Civil Defense for Fiscal Year 1967

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  This report on civil defense is issued to the President by Robert McNamara as ordered by the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Topics included in this report include an overview of the civil defense structure and organization, fallout shelter system, civil defense warning system, training and education in civil defense, information on industrial participation, labor support and international activities that impact civil defense. Appendixes include photos of fallout shelter supplies, warning flow chart for the United States, numbers of fallout shelters, tables listing research funds, property transferred to state and local government for civil defense purposes, federal contributions to state and local governments for supplies, equipment and training at emergency operation centers.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1968-02
• For Protection of Food Products

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  "As a result of a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack by the enemy, unprotected food and drinking products may be contaminated. Their use will severely infect and poison people. Nuclear blasts and radioactive substances are very dangerous for foodstuffs. If supplies of them are located in open places, they are destroyed within a distance of 0.2 kg/cm2 of the nuclear blast. In specially dug and prepared trench and foundation areas, they can withstand one and a half times as much force."

  US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

  Borovikov, A.

  1968
• Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Summary of Report

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  The Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders or the Kerner Report was released in 1968. The introduction states: "The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst came during a two-week period in July, first in Newark and then in Detroit. Each set off a chain reaction in neighboring communities. On July 28, 1967, the President of the United States established this Commission and directed us to answer three basic questions: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? To respond to these questions, we have undertaken a broad range of studies and investigations. We have visited the riot cities; we have heard many witnesses; we have sought the counsel of experts across the country. . This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal. Reaction to last summer's disorders has quickened the movement and deepened the division. Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American. This deepening racial division is not inevitable. The movement apart can be reversed. Choice is still possible. Our principal task is to define that choice and to press for a national resolution. To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values. The alternative is not blind repression or capitulation to lawlessness."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

  1968
• December 1965 Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

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  "More than 1 million cubic yards of tholeiitic basalt was erupted from the upper east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano during a brief 6-hour period on December 24 and 25, 1965. The eruptive fissures opened in an en echelon zone about 2 miles long, from Aloi Crater eastward to Kane Nui o Hamo. The vigorous early stage of the eruption formed a 47-foot-deep lava lake in Aloi Crater and flooded about 150 acres of forest to the east. At a later stage, withdrawal of magma into the source fissures and other cracks drained the lava lake in Aloi Crater and considerably reduced the volume of lava in the flows remaining on the surface. Measurements of ground tilt show that Kilauea summit inflated before the eruption, and that it abruptly deflated just before and during the eruption. Significantly, the summit continued to deflate for an additional 10-hour period after the eruption had ended. Precise leveling suggests that the summit of the volcano did not collapse simply, and that small subsidiary areas of collapse lay about 1.5 km north and 2 km southeast of Halemaumau. The eruption marked only the beginning of a major seismic crisis that lasted for more than a week. Thousands of earthquakes were recorded, and preliminary results indicate that most of the epicenters lay in a narrow area extending from the upper east rift zone westward along the Koae fault zone into the Kau Desert. Hundreds of ground cracks and faults opened in this area, and precise leveling has shown that the area of cracking locally subsided nearly 6 feet. The eruption ended as the tempo of ground cracking and earthquakes was just reaching a maximum."

  United States. Department of the Interior; Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Government Printing Office

  Koyanagi, Robert Y., 1934-; Fiske, Richard S.

  1968
• Effects of the Earthquake of March 27, 1964, on the Alaska Highway System

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  "The great earthquake that struck Alaska about 5:36 p.m., Alaska standard time, Friday, March 27, 1964 (03:36:1.3.0, Greenwich mean time, March 28, 1964), severely crippled the highway system in the south-central part of the State. All the major highways and most secondary roads were impaired. Damage totaled more than $46 million, well over $25 million to bridges and nearly $21 million to roadways. Of the 204 bridges in south-central Alaska, 141 were damaged; 92 were severely damaged or destroyed. The earthquake damaged 186 of the 830 miles of roadway in south-central Alaska, 83 miles so severely that replacement or relocation was required. Earthquake damage to the roadways and bridges was chiefly by (1) seismic shaking, (2) compaction of fills as well as the underlying sediments, (3) lateral displacement of the roadway and bridges, (4) fractures, (5) landslides, (6) avalanches, (7) inundation by seismic sea waves, (8) scouring by seismic sea waves, (9) regional tectonic subsidence, causing inundation and erosion by high tides in subsided areas. The intensity of damage was controlled primarily by the geologic environment (including the depth of the water table) upon which the highway structures rested, and secondarily by the engineering characteristics of the structures. Structures on bedrock were only slightly damaged if at all, whereas those on unconsolidated sediments were slightly to severely damaged, or were completely destroyed by seismic shaking. The low-lying areas underlain by saturated sediments, such as the Snow River Crossing and Turnagain Arm sections of the Seward-Anchorage Highway, were the most severely damaged stretches of the highway system in south-central Alaska. At Snow River and Turnagain Arm, the sediments underlying the roadway are fine grained and the water table is shallow. These factors were responsible for the intense damage along this stretch of the highway."

  Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Department of the Interior

  Kachadoorian, Reuben, 1921-

  1968
• Seismic Seiches from the March 1964 Alaska Earthquake

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  "Seismic seiches caused by the Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964, were recorded at more than 850 surface-water gaging stations in North America and at 4 in Australia. In the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, 763 of 6,435 gages registered seiches. Nearly all the seismic seiches were recorded at teleseismic distance. This is the first time such far-distant effects have been reported from surface-water bodies in North America. The densest occurrence of seiches was in States bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The seiches were recorded on bodies of water having a wide range in depth, width, and rate of flow. In a region containing many bodies of water, seiche distribution is more dependent on geologic and seismic factors than on hydrodynamic ones. The concept that seiches are caused by the horizontal acceleration of water by seismic surface waves has been extended in this paper to show that the distribution of seiches is related to the amplitude distribution of short-period seismic surface waves. These waves have their greatest horizontal acceleration when their periods range from 5 to 15 seconds. Similarly, the water bodies on which seiches were recorded have low-order modes whose periods of oscillation also range from 5 to 15 seconds. Several factors seem to control the distribution of seiches. The most important is variations of thickness of low-rigidity sediments. This factor caused the abundance of seiches in the Gulf Coast area and along the edge of sedimentary overlaps. Major tectonic features such as thrust faults, basins, arches, and domes seem to control seismic waves and thus affect the distribution of seiches. Lateral refraction of seismic surface waves due to variations in local phase-velocity values was responsible for increase in seiche density in certain areas. For example, the Rocky Mountains provided a wave guide along which seiches were more numerous than in areas to either side. In North America, neither direction nor distance from the epicenter had any apparent effect on the distribution of seiches. Where seismic surface waves propagated into an area with thicker sediment, the horizontal acceleration increased about in proportion to the increasing thickness of the sediment. In the Mississippi Embayment however, where the waves emerged from high rigidity crust into the sediment, the horizontal acceleration increased near the edge of the embayment but decreased in the central part and formed a shadow zone. Because both seiches and seismic intensity depend on the horizontal acceleration from surface waves, the distribution of seiches may be used to map the seismic intensity that can be expected from future local earthquakes."

  Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Department of the Interior

  Vorhis, Robert C. (Robert Corson), 1917-; McGarr, Arthur

  1968
• Effects of the Alaska Earthquake of March 27, 1964 on Shore Processes and Beach Morphology

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  "Some 10,000 miles of shoreline in south-central Alaska was affected by the subsidence or uplift associated with the great Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964. The changes in shoreline processes and beach morphology that were suddenly initiated by the earthquake were similar to those ordinarily caused by gradual changes in sea level operating over hundreds of years, while other more readily visible changes were similar to some of the effects of great but short-lived storms. Phenomena became available for observation within a few hours which would otherwise not have been available for many years. In the subsided areas-including the shorelines of the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and Cook Inlet-beaches tended to flatten in gradient and to recede shoreward. Minor beach features were altered or destroyed on submergence but began to reappear and to stabilize in their normal shapes within a few months after the earthquake. Frontal beach ridges migrated shoreward and grew higher and wider than they were before. Along narrow beaches backed by bluffs, the relatively higher sea level led to vigorous erosion of the bluff toes. Stream mouths were drowned and some were altered by seismic sea waves, but they adjusted within a few months to the new conditions. In the uplifted areas, generally around Prince William Sound, virtually all beaches were stranded out of reach of the sea. New beaches are gradually developing to fit new sea levels, but the processes are slow, in part because the material on the lower parts of the old beaches is predominantly fine grained. Streams were lengthened in the emergent areas, and down cutting and bank erosion have increased. Except at Homer and a few small villages, where groins, bulkheads, and cobble-filled baskets were installed, there has been little attempt to protect the post-earthquake shorelines. The few structures that were built have been only partially successful because there was too little time to study the habits of the new shore features and to design appropriate protection measures. Emergence of large areas that were once below water and permanent submergence of once-useful land areas have led to many problems of land use and ownership in addition to the destruction or relocation of wildfowl, shellfish, and salmon habitats."

  Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Department of the Interior

  Stanley, Kirk W.

  1968
• Annual Report of the Office of Civil Defense for Fiscal Year 1968

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  This report on civil defense is issued to the President by Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford as ordered by the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Topics included in this report include an overview of the civil defense structure and organization, fallout shelter system, civil defense warning system, training and education in civil defense, information on industrial participation, labor support and international activities that impact civil defense. Appendixes include examples of state and local civil defense organizations combating effects of peacetime disasters, description of public fallout shelter supplies and an MOU with the Coast Guard.

  United States. Department of Defense

  1968
• Natural Gas Pipeline Safety, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First and Second Sessions, December 6, 1967; February 27-29, and March 1, 1968

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  This is from the December 6, 1967; February 27-29, and March 1, 1968 hearings on "Natural Gas Pipeline Safety," held before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power of the U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. From the opening statement of Torbert H. Macdonald: "The Subcommittee on Communications and Power is opening hearings this morning on H.R. 6551, introduced by Chairman Staggers, and S. 1166, and similar bills, all of which have to do with the creation of Federal standards for the improvement of natural gas pipeline safety. [...] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has a long history of interest in the subject of natural gas pipeline safety, which was enhanced some 17 years ago by the introduction at that time by Congressman John Heselton, of Massachusetts, of a bill to give the Commission authority in this field. [...] It is our purpose to develop during the course of the hearings the manner in which the need for Federal regulation in this field has accentuated as well as to consider the areas wherein Federal specifications and Federal policing of the specifications arrived at may be required." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Alan S. Boyd, Lee White, John M. Murphy, Robert Price, Edwin W. Edwards, Kenneth C. Vaughan, J. David Francis and James W. Karber. Additional statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record are listed in the "Contents."

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1968
• United Nations Peacekeeping, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, on S. Con. Res. 47, Relative to the Establishment of a United Nations Peacekeeping Force, May 1 and 2, 1968

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  This is the May 1 and 2, 1968 hearings titled "United Nations Peacekeeping" held before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From the opening statement of Frank Church: "The International Organization Affairs Subcommittee is meeting today to hold hearings on Senate Concurrent Resolution 47, which has been introduced by a distinguished member of this committee, Mr. Clark, the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. The resolution is, of course, relative to the establishment of a United Nations peacekeeping force." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Arthur Barber, Charles W. Davis, Vernon L. Ferweda, William C. Foster, W. B. Hicks Jr., Dorothy Hutchinson, Betty Goetz Lall, Edward B. Lippert, Marion H. McVitty, Stanley J. Michalak Jr., Charles C. Price, Joseph J. Sisco, Paul C. Warnke, and Charles W. Yost.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1968
• S. Hrg. 90: Present Situation in Vietnam, Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session with General David M. Shoup, Former Commandant, United States Marine Corps, March 20, 1968

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  This is the March 20, 1968 hearing titled "Present Situation in Vietnam" held before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From the opening statement of J. W. Fulbright: "To explore with the committee the military realities in Vietnam, the military prospects for the future, and other questions, we are fortunate indeed to have one of the Nation's most distinguished and experienced generals." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: David M. Shoup.

  United States. Government Printing Office

  1968
• Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

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  From the Foreword: "This report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders responds to Executive Order 11365, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 29, 1967, and to the personal charge given to us by the President."

  National Institute of Justice (U.S.)

  National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

  1968
• Fire Control Notes (Vol.29 No.1)

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  This is the January 1968 edition (Volume 29, No.1) of Fire Control Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1968-01
• Fire Control Notes (Vol.29 No.4)

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  This is the Fall 1968 edition (Volume 29, No.4) of Fire Control Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1968
• Counterintelligence vs. Insurgency

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  This document describes in detail how counterintelligence forces in Latin America ideally plan and mount operations against insurgent forces. It covers every aspect of counterintelligence from identifying insurgents to mounting covert action operations against them.

  United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  Arango, Carlos Revilla

  1968
• Air Force and Strategic Deterrence, 1951-1960 [excised]

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  "'The Air Force and Strategic Deterrence, 1951-1960,' is the second of a series prepared by the USAF Historical Division Liaison Office on the general concepts which have dominated the thinking of U.S. and Air Force strategists since World War II. The earlier work, also prepared by Dr. Lemmer, was titled 'The Air Force and the the Concept of Deterrence, 1945-1950.'This study reviews the major political and technological events of the 1950's --the Korean war and the development of thermonuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles -- and their impact on political and military strategic concepts. The author examines the 'New Look' of the Eisenhower administration and the conflicting interpretations of deterrence which arose during the decade."

  United States. Air Force

  Lemmer, George F.

  1967-12
• Executive Order 11382: Amendment of Executive Orders Relating to Functions of the Department of Transportation

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  This executive order amends executive orders relating to functions of the Department of Transportation.

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

  1967-11-28
• Civil Defense Research Analysis

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  "In Civil Defense, research is a support activity of the building system; its function is to provide support to other activities of the building system. Research itself is a system and its analysis for programming and reporting can be aided by applying the methods of systems analysis. Analytic frameworks, methods, and graphic aids are presented and demonstrated. […] Research in civil defense is a support activity. Its product is information. Its information product is intended to help those others in civil defense who analyze, plan, program, decide, design, procure, train, and so on. So the research job is twofold: to produce information and to insure that its product will be as helpful as possible to fit the needs of those who use it. Given funds and authority, producing information from research is relatively simple. Producing information that is as usable as possible to fill the needs of the other activities of civil defense is far from simple. To say that civil defense is an extremely complex thing has become trite through repetition. Unfortunately, it is also true. And this complexity poses a difficult problem for a research program that is intended to obtain maximum effectiveness. The principal problems for civil defense are those associated with nuclear war. And nuclear war is new; nuclear weaponry is only twenty years old. By contrast, at Trafalgar Nelson's ship, HMS VICTORY, was forty years old. In the twenty years of nuclear weaponry, technological progress has been rapid; weapon yields have increased a thousandfold."

  United States. Office of Civil Defense

  Devaney, John F.

  1967-11-03
• Fire Control Notes (Vol.28 No.4)

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  This is the October 1967 edition (Volume 28, No.4) of Fire Control Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1967-10
• Operations Report- Lessons Learned 5-67- 'Civil Disorders- TF Detroit'

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  "Widespread racial disorders erupted in metropolitan Detroit early on Sunday morning, 23 July 1967. The disturbance began in Detroit's 10th Precinct area at the climax of a police raid on an illegal after-hours liquor establishment in the 9000 block on Twelfth Street. At 0510 hours on Sunday the 10th Precinct received the first calls for police assistance from the Twelfth Street neighborhood. At 0630 hours the first fire had started and the arriving fire trucks drew large crowds. From 0800 hours until noon, there was a lull in the area. Starting about noon gangs started surging along Twelfth Street, looting and setting fire to businesses, moving off onto the side streets and finally into private homes. Mayor Cavanagh requested State Police assistance shortly before 1500 hours. When looting and arson grew he asked for the Michigan National Guard. With nightfall the looting and number of fire calls increased substantially. Shortly after 1800 hours, the first of more than 8,000 guardsmen arrived in the city deploying from Central High School through the riot-torn areas. Police barricades were put up, a curfew announced, bars, gas stations and public places closed. A state of public emergency was declared in Detroit by Governor Romney effective 231800 July 1967. Negro gangs, confined at the first outbreak to 20 blocks or the west side, spread over a 14-square mile area Monday. Early Monday, 24 July, Governor Romney recommended the deployment of Federal Troops to the city of Detroit to assist State and local authorities in reestablishing law and order."

  United States. Adjutant-General's Office

  1967-09-28
• National Security Action Memorandum 364: Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization for FY 1967- FY 1968

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  National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 364 addressed nuclear weapons dispersal authorization requests for FY 1967 and 1968 from the Department of Defense. Note: NSAM 364 was originally a Top Secret directive and a fair amount of the text has been blacked out in this unclassified version. In general, it originally provided quotas for dispersal amounts within the U.S., outside the U.S., and in support to NATO forces. NSAM 364 also noted a procedure for handling future dispersal authorizations (blacked out in this edition).

  United States. White House Office

  1967-08-14
• Executive Order 11366: Assigning Authority to Order Certain Persons in the Ready Reserve to Active Duty

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  "The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the authority vested in the President by section 673a of title 10 of the United States Code, to order to active duty any member of the Ready Reserve of an armed force (except the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy)."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

  1967-08-04
• Operations Progress Report: Disaster Activities in Connection with Hurricane 'Betsy' (Final Report)

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  "This report is submitted pursuant to instruction by OCE in letter ENGCW-OE dated 13 June 1967, subject: 'Operations Progress Report on Disaster Activities in Connection with Hurricane Betsy- Mobile District.' It covers emergency repair work to public facilities in Mississippi coastal areas, as directed by the Office of Emergency Planning, under general authority of Public Law 875, 81st Congress."

  United States. Department of the Army

  1967-07-28
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases: Annual Progress Report, Fiscal Year 1964

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  This is a report of progress on the research program of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases on Medical Defense against Biological Agents for the Fiscal Year 1987.

  U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

  1967-07-01
• Fire Control Notes (Vol.28 No.3)

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  This is the July 1967 edition (Volume 28, No.3) of Fire Control Notes, a quarterly periodical devoted to the technique of forest fire control, produced by the U.S. Forest Service.

  United States. Forest Service

  1967-07