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Proposals for civil defense raise questions regarding both what can be accomplished and the concomitant effects. The present discussion will be concerned only with the concomitant effects. As to the question of feasibility, it must suffice for the present to note that all who have seriously studied this question agree that civil defense preparations could drastically reduce the civilian casualties of a nuclear war.
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Wigner, E.P. (1998). Why Civil Defense. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58862-4_4
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