Earthquake has always endangered cities. This article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. Tehran, the most populous metropolis among Iranian cities is to the south of Alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

PREFACE This report on Recovery From Nuclear Attack should be of interest to all concerned with civil defense and nuclear attack. As pointed out in the report, the "impossibility" of recovery is often advanced as a reason for doing nothing to develop an effective civil defense program for the United States. However, those who have devoted years to the study of civil defense in general, and post...