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Civil Defense: A Soviet View. Soviet Military Thought Series. Translated and Published under the Auspices of the United States Air Force from a Publishing House for Higher Education, Moscow edition by P.T. Yegorov, I.A. Shlyakhov and N.I Alabin. Moscow 1970. Translated and Published Under The Auspices of the United States Air Force.
Translation and editing by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, revised by the United States Air Force.

Contents

American Editor's Comment
Forward
Introduction

1. Civil Defense in a Nuclear Missile War
1.1 The Character of a Possible Future War
1.2 Civil Defense Goals
1.2.1 Protecting the Population from Weapons of Mass Destruction
1.2.2 Preparing National Economic Installations for Stability of Operations
Under Conditions of Attack
1.2.3 Performing Rescue and Emergency Restoration Work at Sites of
Destruction
1.3 Organizational Structure of Civil Defense
1.3.1 General Principles of Civil Defense Organization
1.3.2 Organization of Civil Defense in Cities
1.3.3 Organization of Civil Defense in Urban Districts
1.3.4 Organization of Civil Defense in Rural Districts
1.3.5 Organization of Civil Defense at National Economic Installations
1.3.6 Organization of Civil Defense in Educational Institutions
2. Characteristics of Weapons of Mass Destruction (According to Data of the
Foreign Press)
2.1 Nuclear Weapons
2.1.1 Types of Nuclear Explosions
2.1.2 Destructive Factors of a Nuclear Explosion
2.1.3 Secondary Damage and Zones of Radioactive Contamination
2.2 Areas of Nuclear Damage and Zones of Radioactive Contamination
2.2.1 Law of the Similarity of Explosions
2.2.2 Areas of Radioactive Contamination
2.3 Chemical Weapons
2.3.1 Characteristics of Chemical Weapons
2.3.2 Characteristics of Basic Toxic Materials
2.3.3 Methods for Applying Toxic Materials
2.3..4 Danger Areas of Chemical Contamination
2.3.5 Influence of Meteorological Conditions an Topography of a Danger
Area of Chemical Contamination
2.4 Biological Weapons
2.4.1 Concepts Concerning Pathogenic Microbes and Toxins
2.4.2 Methods of Employing Biological Weapons
2.4.3 Indications that Biological Weapons have been used
2.4.4 Focal Areas of Biological Contamination
3. Methods of Protecting the Population by Dispersal and Evacuation
3.1 Organization and Planning of Dispersal and Evacuation
3.2 The Concept of Dispersal and Evacuation
3.2.1 Preparations for Dispersal and Evacuation
3.2.2 Planning the Dispersal and Evacuation
3.2.3 Providing the Requisites for Evacuation and Dispersal
3.2.4 Radiation and Chemical Defense
3.2.5 Implementing Dispersal and Evacuation
4. Individual Means of Protection
4.1 Devices for Protecting the Respiratory System
4.1.1 Basic Gas Mask Design
4.1.2 Filter-Type Gas Masks
4.1.3 Air-Supplied Devices and Gas Masks
4.1.4 The Most Simple Means for Protecting the Respiratory System
4.2 Devices for Protecting the Skin
4.2.1 Special Devices for Protecting the Skin
4.2.2 Rules for Using Protective Clothing
4.2.3 Improvised Skin Protection Devices
5. Protective Civil Defense Structures
5.1 Designation and Classification of Protective Structures
5.2 Shelters: Design and Equipment
5.2.1 Shelter Requirements
5.2.2 Shelter Arrangement
5.2.3 Interior Shelter Equipment
5.2.4 Adapting A Basement as a Blast Shelter
5.2.5 Simplified Filter-Ventilation Equipment
5.3 How to Arrange and Equip Fallout Shelters
5.3.1 Fallout Shelter in Homes
5.3.2 Construction of Detached Fallout Shelters
5.3.3 Improvised Protective Structures Constructed by the People
5.3.4 Shelter Made from Fascines
5.4 Use of Mines and Mine Shafts for Shelters
5.5 Rules for Using the Shelter
5.5.1 Approval and Maintenance of Shelters
5.5.2 Shelter Maintenance
5.5.3 Order for Occupying and Leaving the Shelter
6, Engineering-Technical Civil Defense Measures that increase the Operational
Stability of National Economic Installations (Facilities)
6.1 The Concept of Zones of Possible Destruction in a Nuclear Blast
6.2 Urban Planning and Building of Cities and Industrial Districts with
Consideration of Civil Defense Requirements
6,2,1 Reducing the Building Density of Urban Areas and Creating Satellite
Cities
6.2.2 Constructing Wide Major Thoroughfares
6.2.3 Creating Green Areas (Greenbelts) and Strips
6.2.4 Construction of Artificial Water Reservoirs
6.2,5 Development of Outer Zones
6.2.6 Building a Road Network Around the City
6.3 Evaluating the Operational Stability of National Economic Facilities in
Response to a Nuclear Blast
6.3.1 Methods for Evaluating the Stability of Industrial Facilities
6.3.2 Evaluating the Survivability of a Facility Under the Impact of a Shock
Wave
6.3.3 Evaluating the Survivability of a Facility with Regard to Thermal
Radiation
6.3.4 Evaluating the Operational Stability of a Facility in the Presence of
Penetrating Radiation and Radioactive Contamination
6.3.5 Evaluating the Operational Stability of a Facility Relative to the
Effects of Secondary Damaging Factors
6.3.6 Evaluating the Operational Stability of a Facility in the Presence of a
Chemical and Biological Weapons
6.4 Engineering-Technical Measures for National Economic Facilities
6.4.1 Safeguarding Workers and Employees from Weapons of Mass
Destruction
6.4.2 Increasing the Administrative Survivability of the Civil Defense
(Capabilities) of a Facility
6.4.3 Increasing the Survivability of Buildings and Structures
6.4.4 Protecting Expensive and Unique Equipment
6.4.5 Increasing the Survivability of the Electrical Power, Gas, Steam,
and Water Supply
6,4,6 Increasing the Stability of Service Utility Systems
6.4.7 Installation of Individual Production Components in Underground
Structures
6,4.8 Ensuring Protection from Radioactive, Chemical or Biological
Contamination
6.4.9 Increasing the Survivability of the Equipment and Supplies at a
Facility
6.5 Planning Engineering Technical Measures
7. Civil Defense Planning
7.1 Basis of Civil Defense Planning for a National Economic Facility
7.1.1 Developing a Civil Defense Plan for a National Economic Facility
7.1.2 Basic Requirements of the Civil Defense Plan for a National
Economic Facility
7.1.3 Data Base for Developing a Civil Defense Plan for a National
Economic Facility
7.1.4 Sequence for Developing, Checking, and Correcting the Civil
Defense Plan for a National Economic Facility
7.1.5 The Documents and Contents of the Civil Defense Plan for a
National Economic Facility
8. Conduct of the Population Under the Treat of Enemy Attack and in Response
to Civil Defense Signals
8.1 Conduct of the Population Under Threat of Enemy Attack
8.2 What the People Should Do in Response to Civil Defense Signals
9. Radiation Detectors, Chemical Survey Meters, and Dosimetric Control
Instruments
9.1 Designation, Classification, and Operating Principles of Dosimetric
Instruments
9.2 Radiation Survey Meters
9.3 Dosimetric Monitors
9.4 Chemical Survey Instruments
10. Organizing and Conducting Reconnaissance at a National Economic Facility
in a Center of Mass Destruction
10.1 Missions and Types of Reconnaissance
10.2 Organizing and Conducting Reconnaissance
10.2.1 Operations of Observation Posts
10.2.2 Operations of Installation Reconnaissance Groups when
Conduction Reconnaissance
10.3 Reconnaissance by Special Purpose Formations
10.3.1 Radiation and Chemical Reconnaissance
10.3.2 Engineering Reconnaissance
10.3.3 Fire Reconnaissance
10.3.4 Medical Reconnaissance
10.3.5 Biological Reconnaissance
10.3.6 Veterinary Reconnaissance
10.3.7 Taking Samples and Smears to Determine Contamination
10.4 Designating Contaminated Areas of Terrain
11. Rescue and Urgent Emergency-Restoration Work
11.1 Forces, Equipment and their Deployment in the Base Area
11.1.1 Technical and Tactical Data Regarding Vehicles and Machinery
11.1.2 Deployment of CD Forces and Equipment8mental in an Outer
Zone
11.2 Support of Rescue Operations
11.3 Role of the Civil Defense Chief of Staff of the Facility in Organizing and
Conducting Rescue Work
11.3.1 Organizing Rescue and Urgent Emergency-Restoration Work
11.3.2 Evaluating Radiation Conditions
11.3.3 Supervising Rescue and Urgent Emergency-Restoration Work
11.3.4 Shift Changes of Formations and Subunits
11.4 Methods for Conducing Rescue Work
11.4.1 Reconnoitering the Center of Destruction
11.4.2 Isolating and Extinguishing Fires
11.4.3 Clearing Accesses and Constructing Passageways in Ruins
11.4.4 Rescuing Victims from Destroyed Shelters, from Under Rubble
and from Burning and Partially Destroyed Buildings
11.4.5 Helping People Escape from Regions of Radioactive and
Chemical Contamination and from Flooded Areas
11.4.6 Decontamination of Persons and Clothing
11.4.7 Decontaminating Areas, Structures and Equipment
11.4.8 Conducting Urgent Emergency-Restoration Work
11.5 Organization of Political Party Work
12 Training the Population in Civil Defense
12.1 Missions and Goals of Civil Defense Training at National Economic
Facilities
12.1.1 Training Goals
12.1.2 Organization and Goals of the Training Program
12.2 Training Programs in Civil Defense
12.3 Teacher Qualifications
12.3.1 Party Principles and the Scientific Approach
12.4 Organizing and Planning Training
12.5 Training Civil Defense Instructors and Development of Teaching Materials
12.6 Training Methods and Forms
12.7 Dissemination of Civil Defense Information
Appendices

Object Name

Book

Subjects

Russia -- Civil defense.
Civil defense.
Russia.

Title

Civil Defense: A Soviet View

Series

Soviet military thought, no. 10.

Publisher

U.S. Government Printing Office

Published Date

1970

Published Place

Washington, D.C.

Physical Description

Soft Cover
6.25 x 9", 374 pages, ill.

Language

English

Catalog Number

17.17.13