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Civil Defense in 1961

Wayne County Civil Defense Director William Brinkman (second from left) and local fire chiefs display the contents of one of five trucks equipped for rescue and clean-up operations in the event of a nuclear explosion in the Detroit, Michigan, area.

School children in Topeka, Kansas, huddle in a corridor during a Civil Defense test alert.

A policeman and a dog guard a nearly deserted Times Square during a New York City, New York, test alert in April.

French technicians wearing gas masks and other protective gear mark an area of "lingering radiation" during a civil defense drill in September.

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In the Year 1961

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