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Overview of small scale and large scale methods of disseminating biological warfare agents in the United States.
A training film dramatizes the methods of disseminating biological warfare agents in the United States. Small scale method of disseminating biological warfare agent to sabotage key personnel and key installations shows a skilled plumber contaminating the water supply of a military reservation with a pathogen. Various other methods can be used to contaminate food and ice cream. U.S. military personnel eating at tables. Unprocessed or uncooked food can also be contaminated. Infective material being put into a ventilation system by a man. A missile heads for a target depicting large scale airborne method of disseminating biological warfare agent. Men carrying a submarine designed for biological warfare at a beach. Rockets equipped with biological warheads being fired from a ship. Usage of aircraft shows an aircraft dropping a bomblet to achieve greater affect. The aircraft equipped with tanks flies low over a field. Animation depicts the selection of microorganism.
Safety techniques and measures used by the people in the United States.
A film titled 'Seconds for Survival' depicts the techniques used by people in case of emergency for their safety in the United States. American actor Raymond Hart Massey talks about the safety techniques. Men aboard sailing boats underway at sea. Warning about an upcoming storm in the sea arises on a teletypewriter. Sailors aboard a motorboat warns the people about the storm. Everybody is safe because of the quick warning and actions. Men and women working in a bank. A man arrives at the counter and shows a pistol to the employee during a bank robbery. He asks him to give all the money. The employee presses the button of a silent alarm to call the police. The man comes out of the bank with the money. The police arrives in time and captures the criminal.
Firemen direct water on a fire and control it in a house in the United States.
Safety in everyday life in the United States. Exterior of a house in upscale suburb in the United States. Man, woman and their child inside the house. Housewife sitting in chair sewing, and a boy child lying on the rug in a room, reading. A man working in office in another room. He carelessly throws a cigarette in an ash tray and comes out of the room. He sits with his family. The other room catches fire because of the burning cigarette. The woman calls the fire department. Firemen arrive and fire fighters extinguish the fire with water from fire hoses.
Description of North American Air Defense system components and operation
Actor Raymond Massey talks about the nation's need for defense against possible air attack. He walks to a large wall map depicting North America and discusses joint efforts of Canada and the United States to establish an effective air defense system for North America. On the map, lines of radar stations are shown: The DEW line;Mid Canada line; and the Pine Tree line. Other radar installations are highlighted along East and West coasts on land, on towers in the ocean, on picket ships and on picket aircraft. Sites of the SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) network of radars, computer systems, and aircraft command and control equipment are depicted on the U.S. part of the map. The headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) at Colorado Springs, Colorado is highlighted. Massey points to models of intercepter missiles and long range bombers, on his desk, and discusses their employment. He then speaks of an intricate communications system to tie everything together. This is depicted on the animated map. Views of men laying telephone cable. Underground view of telephone cables. View of telephone microwave tower. Telephone poles and lines along a rural road. A mother and child telephoning the father long distance. Office workers using telephones. Teletype machines and television communications. A ship laying telephone cable at sea.Map depicts lines of communication provided by undersea cables. views of emergency supplies and equipment available in times of disaster. Downed power lines being repaired. Men at a large emergency diesel generator. Underground communication cables being installed by team of tracked vehicles. Remote lines of communication away from possible targets are depicted.
Construction of the DEW Line system of early warning radar sites
Narrator, actor Raymond Massey, sitting at a desk, covered with models of intercepter missiles, discusses the role played by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Bell telephone, and Western Electric, in creating the communications undergirding the North American Air Defense System. Scene shifts to arctic and view of a Dew Line site in the snow. A Pacific Western DC-3 airplane lands on snow runway, and a ship moves through icy waters, both carrying personnel and equipment for construction of the polar early warning system. A tractor hauls cargo for the project over snowy terrain. Supplies being air-dropped from a commercial C-82 Packet aircraft. Aerial view of a depot filled with supples for the DEW line project. Carpenters and other construction workers employed on the project in severe cold and windy conditions. A man making his way toward a wooden building, during a blizzard. Men installing tall steel towers at a DEW line site on a sunny day in summer. Exterior panels being placed on the geodesic dome covering a DEW line radar antenna.
Defense Early Warning radar sites (DEW Line), White Alice communications systems, and North American Air Defense (NORAD)
Aerial views of Dew Line air defense radar installations in the Northern part of North America. Ground views of a man dressed in furs riding a dog sled. View from the sled of the dog team pulling it. The man and dog team moving in the snow past black microwave antennas of the "White Alice" Alaskan Communications system. Aerial view of a White Alice complex containing huge red and white checkered microwave antennas. Oil tanks and other facilities at the site. Scene shifts to closeup of receiving and relaying antennas of the White Alice system. View of a Dew Line radar site. Narrator explains how the Dew Line stations work in concert with the White Alice system. Closeup of radar antenna rotating and fade to a radar screen where a target is being painted by a sweeping beam. Operator at the radar screen picks up phone to inform NORAD (North American Air Defense Command). View of the NORAD Headquarters Building at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with mountain in background and flags of the U.S. and Canada flying from flag poles in front of the building. View inside the command and control area of the headquarters. A large tracking board on which radar information is depicted. view of a radar station complex on land and one out at sea. A Lockheed EC-121 radar picket aircraft in flight and a radar picket ship at sea.
