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Ways Offered To Fight Fallout
There is no place that can be sure it would escape unsacthed in an atomic attack on this nation, the Federal Civil Defense Administration is warning rural America.
The chief threat to the farmer is fallout, the silent, often invisible and deadly “rain” of radioactive matter from the skies after the surface burst of a heavy nuclear weapon.
This can occur hundreds of miles from the site of a blast, and is the reason PCDA has arranged for daily U. S. Weather Bureau ^predictions of the probable patterns for radioactive fallout if bombs were to fall on likely target cities.
The heavy range weapons hurl millions of tons of dust-fine debris to extreme altitude where it is caught in fast windstreams and blown long distances before it returns to earth.
The pattern of fall generally is roughly cigar-Shaped, with varied intensity, in the area so that some places will be “hotter" than others. Evacuation may be necessary from these places.
For the most part tfiere are certain elemental precautions that could be taken by every rural family if it were warned of a fall; but threat. Such warnings would come on Conelrad radio, the 640 and 1240 frequencies.
When warning time permits the first thing to do would be to get animals under cover. A barn would reduce radioactivity a great deal, and if the loft happened to be filled with hay, this would cut it still, further.
The family should immediately get under cover. TTie ideal would ’ be something like a cyclone cellar, with three feet of earth on top. That would cut radioactivity to almost nothing. B,ut the farm home itself is protection, and the cellar of a farm home would be eveh
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