U.S. TO TEST READINESS
Nuclear Attack Exercise (N.Z Press Asm.—Copyright) WASHINGTON. April 28. The United States will test its preparedness to meet a full-scale nuclear attack in a nation-wide exercise today. The exercise would assume the country was under attack by missiles and bombers carrying nuclear weapons The test, which would involve all major civil defence units across America, would be between 4 p.m. and 5 p m. When the mock attack started. President Kennedy and other leaders would speak on a recorded broadcast from an underground relocation centre in the Washington area, the officials said. All other radio broadcasts would be stopped for half an hour while the civil defence broadcast was carried over two special “conelrad" frequencies. Civil defence officials said that only a few hundred people would be evacuated from Washington but many millions of Americans would be involved in one way or another. In New York city all traffic would be stopped for 10 minutes.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 11
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159U.S. TO TEST READINESS Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 11
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