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National Defense
Week
: eptembcr. 15-21 was the second , a.’i.ual National Civil Defense Week.
Jn last year’s observance, every .State and Territory .participated. Federal »departments. State and municipal governments took the opportunity to show their state of . civil defense readiness. The 1957 observance, with the theme—“Government in Emergency*—should give these same agencies a chance for-evaluation, ;f period of determining just how much progress, has been made in a year’s time in their preparedness for disaster.
In the past 1*2 months, there have great advancements in weapons development. It is no secret that an all-out attack on the' United States you Id destroy not onlv a great number of cities, but also inflict heavy damage on rural areas, and spread radioactive fallout ( to contaminate thousand of square miles.
While this is a most gruesome picture, it is not complete unless one were to consider the disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes which occur almost dailv to tax the resource of government. Each year about 400 small and large disasters tire reported m the United States.
Man-made disasters and natural disasters are fundamentally alike. And basically, they can best be met bv strengthening the organizationvwe now have on hand. This * means that there is an urgent need to continue to build civil defease readiness and capability into existing governnfents at all levels.
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