FEMA Oversight: Will U.S. Nuclear Attack Evacuation Plans Work? : Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Sesion, April 22, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 370 pages |
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