This list is under construction. Date of last update is 16 March 2000.

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Civil Defense Links

Public Shelter

(A) small archive of United States Civil Defense material with a focus on women, including speeches, text, and picture materials from the 1960s - unfortunately some documents only show covers

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

(C) cursory summary of work from 1986 to date publishing Civil Defense materials and preparing shelter displays

Federation of American Scientists

(A) rich site covering a wide variety of global health and security issues - detailed lists of weapons of mass destruction capabilities of nations having such systems, including historical data

Victoria Civil Defence (Australia)

(B+) extensive photograph collection of people, exercises, rescue equipment, vehicles, communications equipment, training activities, and other events in the 1960s and early 1970s

Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum

(B+) a developing site with an art gallery of 1950s-60s Civil Defense posters, a photographic tour of the former Dallas Emergency Operations Center and a home shelter, and information on shelter kits

Class Listing: Military Defence and Fortification

(A) British government national Monuments Thesaurus listing all types of Royal Observer Corps and Civil Defense sites with a brief description of type, function, and dates of service of each facility

The Royal Observer Corps: 1925-1992

(A) extensive summary history of the evolution of the Royal Observer Corps, World War II service, and evolution into a nuclear reporting organization, warning sequence, probelms of life underground

Welcome to Wykeham Royal Oberver Corp Post 23

(C) picture of current site and summary history of Royal Observer Corps Post 23 near Scarborough

The Royal Observer Corps

(A+) detailed list of all Royal Observer Corps Posts and Group Headquarters with dates and current condition, information and photographs of Post layout and equipment, summary of Corps history

Subterranea Britannica Research Study Group

(A+) mission statement of group that studies undegraound Cold War infrastructure of britain, large index of sites with known details and photographs, history of British Civil Defence, biliography

Dan's Military History Site

(B) extensive photographs, history, and details of deep level British air raid shelters in London

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