And the federal effort began with an Omaha telephone ... which placed most of the civil defense burden on states, and the new Civil Defense Administration. Sam Reynolds was Omaha’s first civil ...

One veteran shared with docents, when he was a kid in the 50s, many youngsters wanted to be a member of the Federal Civil Defense Administration thinking it made you a civilian soldier.

Just as President Ronald Reagan advocated comprehensive fallout shelter plans during the Cold War, the Trump administration ... designed civil defense initiatives at the state and federal levels.