European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August advises civil defense planners menus prepare for 4 Kirtus of a attacks bar Joseph Miler As i i n g t o n government has to3d civil defence planners to get set for four different kinds of atomic at tack launched separately or in it gave Slark official acts on the ruin and death we could expect in Sych and practical advice and Assurance that much can be done to reduce both the casualties and the physical dam within that nothing will help much if you Are within half a Mike of an atomic tort gel outside that deadly Circle to a distance of eight the a damage is but it will require very comprehensive and detailed to make such planning the government armed and local civil defense officials with a 456 Page handbook called the effects of atomic it contains the most authoritative and com plete information yet published on what bombs and what done about the effects of atomic Wear was prepared under the direction of the tos bomb Laboratory and published by the defense department and the atomic Energy it supplies the Basic facts de sense planners must have to Cope with atomic heat and Radia ii assumes for practical Pur poses that the attack weapon is a nominal atomic Bosun of the equivalent to tons of which knocked Japan out of world War scaling Laws Bui ii for the first scaling Laws which will permit planners to calculate the effects of More powerful it supplies a Chart of these effects for bombs up to 10 times More powerful than officials said the scaling Laws also could be used to obtain at the effects of Hydrogen if they prove some scientists think h bombs might he times As powerful As but others believe that figure is greatly sex practicality is the books key it suggests Only measures that can be carried out with reasonable amounts of and it says extreme in such As dispersion of cities construction of vast underground is beyond its the National Security resources the Agency responsible for civil defense will Fol Low up this Book with a country wide blueprint which will be to the Council of state governments in Chicago sept in telling planners to gear for tells of measures for reduction of damage several different kinds of atomic fee Book tacitly assumes enemy bombers ran get past our air military experience shows that even under the Best at 35 per cent of attacking planes get Whai to expect that being the the Booklet tees american cities what to expect from bomb bursting about feet in the the air burst is the most efficient Al purpose atomic and so the most Likely to be it destroys practically everything within half a of ground Point directly under the burst in Japan it killed 90 per cent of the people within that deadly it emits deadly radiation for a few seconds bul leaves practically no radio Active bomb bursting several feet it destroys at Only slightly More than half the distance of the air burst but it also produces a base of intensely radioactive Mist which poisons and makes deadly what Ever this surge May spread 3vt Miles or farther Down and could make an area dangerous for two the underwater burst also kicks up High Waves which could flood a port area a penetration bomb burst ing 40 to 50 feet this also produce a Cloud of dust or mud in addition it would blast out a Crater 800 feet across and 100 feet totally destroying every tiling in the area and contaminating it with lasting this would be so intense that the fastest vehicle could not safely transport human beings through it immediately after the burst the penetration bomb would unleash earthquake like seismic these would be particularly destructive to massive the say to nearby underground facilities like new Yorks sub skyscraper found and electric Mains or warfare 7 which highly radioactive materials from atomic piles Are dusted or sprayed Over a City to make it a Mohabi the Mili tary and the atomic Energy commission Are studying re cannot Deal out death in a but it could Force temporary evacuation or Only part time occupancy of a Large its chief value would be its psychological effect As a mystery the defense depart ment considers it an intriguing sideline rather than a practical but any enemy might use it is very necessary the stars and str spin i 125 Editp Rinchley managing editor editor August 1950 i col Henry Riemer Ken Zumwalt Phil Taylor axe curve manager chief of distribution Maurice it Kirkwood Lxi is h news Burba us Frankfurt jw8 ext t1 Darmstadt 190 Berlin 846bbb Vienna 847330 Brenner Laveo turn is Munich european edition Pool tuned Dally at Tor the o s Oncu pallum under Texe auspices of the armed forces information and Blu Catton Neucom the stars and Oarren Staci correspondence addressed to the Stan sad afo us to the York office ski old do sent to my Washington k y w a of Ltd pubic anon of me armed m second class Natter sept St the new under the act of March to understand and the prepared for of these Era kinds of Ajr unit plus an underwater for variations of including Low surface and deep underwater the handbook says bluntly that what happened to Hiroshima and some japanese were killed and happen to Amer ican cities unprepared for american houses would stand up no belter against the bomb than did japanese Many american buildings would fare worse than the japanese Struc built to resist but the Book also makes some hopeful Points the bombs though Falls of rapidly with Bombproof shelters can be built jew buildings can be made a bomb resistant if not bomb in quake resistant buildings of reinforced Concrete stood up close to the exist ing buildings can be strengthened by adding blast and in creasing the Interior radiation dangers thousands of persons who get potentially deadly doses of Radia Tion can be saved with medical techniques already developed and being the dangers of radiation have been exaggerated accounted for Only 5 to 15 per cent of the japanese bomb cities can prepare effective emergency control clouding widely spaced and Well protected stockpiles of blood plasma and other medical duplicate and communications the Book leaves it up to the planners to decide what to to about bombs More powerful than the since the War Tifis country has made bombs at least six times More potent than the japanese and we Are working on a Hydrogen As suming it can be and that it would be times As Power As the nominal the scaling Laws indicate that its radius of total destruction would be five it would cause severe damage for 10 Miles and if the nominal bomb inflicts severe Flash Burns at two thirds of a the bomb would inflict them at 20 such a bomb would come close to wiping out a City the size of but defense against h like dispersion of is beyond Tho scope of this j years 1945 president Truman orders termination of 1946 gives Yugoslavia 48 hours to justify shooting Down of an army transport and to release of 1947 the in Security Council bars Romania and Bulgaria from in member ship in a meeting marked by two More soviet 1948 Mildred Sally is flown from Germany to face charges of treason for having broadcast for the nazi radio Dur ing the High commissioner John my cloy announces seven appoint ments to the which will run the Organiza Tion in Germany after formation of the West German Bertha of Rhine main air presents her prizewinning Oil painting of the Bast Chapel to a Trio of Rhine main they Are left to chaplains capt John maj Henri Hamel and capt Albert Courtenay Wright eur cow special services entertainment is on her Way to the states after serving More than two years in zone wide routing with Soldier the second civilian actress technician in the miss Wright came to Europe after a two year tour with the Tiso in the far she worked with such productions As jerks b e r s e r the cats of the vittles hoi and us minstrel ant Talent act photo scan Ferta face Isa inn the interim advisory Board of the women zonal welfare Ferenee discusses plans at the Emerald room in the Frankfurt Gas for the next zonal slated for october at to right Are George of Frankfurt Ham of Heidet Borg of Haven Edwin of Jim and Claude of j m capt James co of the 7871st Trig up at tit Gen training presents Fesq to the red Crow the Money wets contributed by be Lodge to be used by needy children of the Katzl Nyca tour when the Camp was dropped because off polio the were 1