Citizen evacuation in response to nuclear and nonnuclear threats.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 01/09/81Description: 90p; 81 refsReport number: BHARC/81/013; GRANT-PFR-77-23697Subject: After an introductory chapter a review is made of past attempts to compare nuclear and nonnuclear threats and an explicit logic developed for making such comparisons. This is followed by a section which gives a brief overview of each of the disaster events to be compared (Mt. St. Helens; Flood-Valley, Fillmore and Snoqualmie; and Three Mile Island). The next two chapters address, in turn, comparisons of warning source credibility and evacuation decision-making among the nuclear and nonnuclear threats. Finally, the last chapter examines the implictions of the findings for the problem of evacuation planning .550.
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After an introductory chapter a review is made of past attempts to compare nuclear and nonnuclear threats and an explicit logic developed for making such comparisons. This is followed by a section which gives a brief overview of each of the disaster events to be compared (Mt. St. Helens; Flood-Valley, Fillmore and Snoqualmie; and Three Mile Island). The next two chapters address, in turn, comparisons of warning source credibility and evacuation decision-making among the nuclear and nonnuclear threats. Finally, the last chapter examines the implictions of the findings for the problem of evacuation planning .550.
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