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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
Today I Found Out video on radiation exposure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFA6IXu37Pc
Today I Found Out video on the Plutonium Experiments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt3JVcPxy68
SOURCES:
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/cdv-instruments/cdv-715.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/cdv-instruments/cdv-787.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/cdv-instruments/cdv-138.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/citizens/victoreen.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/cdv-instruments/cdv-750.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/cdv-instruments/cdv-720.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/civil-defense/citizens/radtek.html
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/files/civil-defense/when-lionel-went-nuclear.pdf