In the early 1950s, the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) initiated a program called 'Alert America'. A key element of this campaign was called 'Operation Alert', which staged mock atomic bomb attacks on hundreds of American cities in order to determine civilian preparedness.
At the end of the annual drills the FCDA would issue a report. In 1956 the organization estimated that 8 million 'died', 6 million were 'injured,' and 24 million 'left homeless'.
- Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos, 179
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