Civil Defence RADIAC Equipment: a Fallout Shelter Essential

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During the Cold War, Civil Defence organizations prepared citizens for nuclear warfare by distributing educational literature, building and maintaining communal fallout shelters, and providing rescue and first aid training - among other duties. As part of these activities, CD organizations adopted, standardized, and distributed a wide variety of radiation detection and monitoring equipment. In this video, we examine two such devices:

-CD V-715 Gamma Survey Meter
-Bendix 608 Quartz Fibre Dosimeter and CD V-750 Dosimeter Charger

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