Origins
United Kingdom
The advent of civil defense was stimulated by the experience of the bombing of civilian areas during the First World War. The

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Relatively small investments in preparation can speed up recovery by months or years and thereby prevent millions of deaths by hunger, cold and disease. According to human capital theory in economics, a country's population is more valuable than all of the land, factories

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Threats to civilians and civilian life include NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical warfare) and others, like the more modern term CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear). Threat assessmentinvolves studying each threat so that preventative

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Mitigation
Mitigation is the process of actively prevents the war or the released of nuclear weapons. It includes policy analysis, diplomacy, political

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• The American Civil Defense Association
• French Civil Protection
• Blast shelter
• Civil-defense Geiger counters

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• Greece
• Large gallery of Bulgaria's Civil Defense Mechanization(archived link)
• The UK Civil Defence Project – History & Photos
• National Civil Defence College, Nagpur INDIA Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine

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Civil Defense is also the name of a number of organizations around the world dedicated to protecting civilians from military attacks, as well as

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