Radiation threats and your safety: A guide to Preparation and REsponse for Professionals and Community

Several years ago, before the advent of Internet shopping, I bought an old issue of Life magazine from a shopping mall kiosk in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was the September 15, 1961, issue and had a picture of a man in a “civilian fallout suit” on the cover with the title “How You Can Survive Fallout.” I browsed through the magazine thinking that it represented an era that we had moved beyond. I had no idea that the events occurring exactly 40 years after publication of this particular issue would launch another era during which, once again, we would be concerned about this possibility....