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Doctors for Disaster Preparedness 2020 Conference presentation of this article.

FOREWORD

Toshiharu Kano, third generation Japanese-American, author of Passport to Hiroshima reminded us recently;

"I am the last, closest to ground zero (800 meters from hypocenter), living survivor of Hiroshima atomic bomb of August 1945. Many of the tens of thousands of victims there tragically perished from an unfamiliarity of how to protect themselves from the unique effects of a nuclear bomb's flash, blast and radiation. As a US citizen living in middle America today I see a hauntingly similar vulnerability growing among the general public here ever since Civil Defense was discontinued after the Reagan Cold War...