Showing posts with label civil defense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil defense. Show all posts
Monday, January 01, 2018

From the Archives - A Moral Argument for Civil Defense: Advice to America’s Catholic Bishops (1983)

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This article appeared exactly 35 years ago today, in the January 1, 1983, issue of Crisis Magazine , a Catholic journal of opinion (previous...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

From the Archives: 'School Training for Civil Defense' (1981)

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Some background may shed light on this 1981 article, retrieved from my paper archives.  Fortunately the story behind it has already been tol...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

My Brush with Greatness: Edward Teller (1908-2003)

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Today would have been the 106th birthday of nuclear physicist Edward Teller , who has often been called the "father of the hydrogen bom...
Thursday, January 09, 2014

Preparing for the Coming Viral Apocalypse (Please Retweet!)

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More than 30 years ago, I was involved in the preparation of an anthology called The Apocalyptic Premise , which was edited by Ernest W. Lef...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

From the Archives: 'Act Now to Save Lives After a Nuclear War'

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Thirty years ago tonight, ABC-TV broadcast The Day After , a movie about the aftermath of nuclear war set in the American heartland. Direct...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Clean Talk about Dirty Bombs

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When the concept of "dirty bombs" first came to public consciousness in the months following the terrorist attacks on New York Cit...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Patrick Swayze and 'Red Dawn'

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Fox News and other media outlets are reporting the death of actor Patrick Swayze: After a very long and public battle with pancreatic canc...