National Civil Defence Week Magnet

From www.railphotoexpress.biz Support National Civil Defence Week. Be Alert Today and Alive Tomorrow. Civil defence, civil defence or civil protection is an effort to prepare non combatant's for military attack. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, or emergency evacuation, and recovery. Programs of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s but only became widespread after the threat of nuclear weapons was realized.