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...have never claimed we had a perfect plan," says FEMA official Russell Clanahan. "But the alternative would be to not do anything and let people die needlessly...
State and local civil defense officials are convinced the evacuation can take place with "a planned and non-chaotic movement, Clanahan says. Douglas Forbes, FEMA's chief planner in Massachusetts, adds that the entire operation will take about 60 hours to complete...
FEMA officials downplay the significance of the council's rejection. "The planning process will simply not take place in Cambridge." Clanahan says. He adds that only 11 of 3000 cities participating in preparations have opposed the planning. Forbes describes the Cambridge reaction as "a political move." Councilors, he adds, "are not going to sit around at ground zero or near ground zero and watch those things...
...Defense Agency, puts it. FEMA officials are banking, therefore, on the expectation that Soviet leaders would try to evacuate their population before any nuclear attack on the United States, alerting analysts here to sound the alarms. "The Soviets only have blast shelters for 25 percent of their urban population." Clanahan explained, "they would lose 100 million people they did not have to with a pre-emptive strike...
...Civil defense is not military, it is a passive defense measure," Clanahan says. "If we had the capability to evacuate at least as quickly as the Soviets, civil defense might actually deter a nuclear attack by denying a disparity in vulnerability...
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