Hyperlink Table of Contents for SM 3-11 Personal and Family Survival

Adult Education Course Student Manual

Title Page

Introduction

Table of Contents

I.    The Civil Defense Program

  Purpose of the Course

The National Civil Defense Program

  Shelter Emphasis Logic

  Supporting Actions

II.    Warning and Communications

  A Warning System

  Local Warning Devices

  NEAR

  CONELRAD

  Shelter Communications

III.  Modern Weapons and Radioactive Fallout

  Conventional Weapons

  Chemical and Biological Agents

  Nuclear Weapons

  The Nature of Fallout

  Health Hazards from Radiation

  Radioactive Decay

  Protective Measures Against Radiation

  Measurement of Radiation

IV.   Community Shelters

  The National Shelter Survey

  Blast and Fallout Shelters

  Types and Designs of Community Shelters

  Preparing, Organizing, and Managing Community Shelters

  Shelter Supplies, Materials and Equipment

V.   Individual and Family Preparedness for Shelter Living (Emergency Shelter Action)

  Individual Responsibilties in a Community Shelter

  Assignment to Community Shelters

  Psychological Aspects of Community Shelter Living

  Supplies in Community Shelters

  Food in Community Shelters

  Care of the Sick and Injured

  Sleeping in Community Shelters

  Sanitation                                            (continues...)

   Use of Time

  Planning for Life Outside

  Additional Preparatory Training

VI.   Home Shelters

  General Considerations

  Family Shelter Construction

  Specific Family Fallout Shelter Designs

  Basic Supplies and Equipment

  Shelter Maintenance

  Multiple Uses of Home Shelters

  Last Minute Expedients

VII.  Emergence from Shelters and Rehabilitation

  When to Leave the Shelter

  Precautions When Departing from Shelters

  Survivor Registration and Information

  Food, Clothing and Housing

Restoration of Public Utilities and Essential Services

  Self-Sufficiency

  Repairs

  Community, State, and National Recovery

  Mutual Aid Programs

  Office of Emergency Planning

  National Stockpiling

  Industry

VIII. Local Civil Defense and Community Shelter Plans

  Plans and Programs

  The Individual's Civil Defense Role

  Civil Defense Skills Needed

IX.   Survival On The Farm

  The Rural Warning Problem

  The Farm Shelter

  Problems of Fallout on the Farm

  Care of Livestock and Poultry

  Food from Exposed and Contaminated Animals

  Food With Surface Contamination

  Food from Contaminated Land

  Reducing the Strontium 90 Hazard

Bibliography

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