(1966) THE WAR GAME - THE MOST REALISTIC ATOMIC WAR MOVIE EVER MADE IT IS STILL BANNED

ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS FILMS EVER MADE ON THE SUBJECT OF ATOMIC WAR,THE "WAR GAME" I HAVE DECIDED TO ADD THIS FILM TO MY BLOG. THE MOVIE IS PERHAPS THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN ON ATOMIC WAR AND LEFT FEELING DRAINED AFTER WATCHING THIS, ITS NOT THREADS OR THE DAY AFTER NOR IS IT A 1950s CIVIL DEFENSE SURVIVAL MOVIE IT IS AN ACCURATE FILM THAT WAS SO REALISTIC AND DEPRESSED ENOUGH FILM CRITICS IT WAS BANNED. I HAD SEARCHED FOR YEARS FOR A COPY BEFORE STUMBLING UPON A VHS COPY AND THEN IT TOOK A COUPLE YEARS TO FIND A VHS PLAYER (just kidding) AFTER WATCHING IT I NEVER FOUND A FILM OF THE SAME CALIBER THIS FILM STANDS ALONE AND TO ME IS A MASTERPIECE SO PLEASE WATCH THIS FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY, NEVER MIND THE RADICAL HIPSTERS WHO AT THE BEGINNING INTRODUCE THE FILM THROUGH THEIR CABLE ACCESS SHOW 
Peter Watkins' film "The

War Game," a graphic portrayal of what would happen in the event

of a nuclear attack on Great Britain. The movie was so powerful

and realistic that the BBC banned it from TV despite the fact

that the film had been commissioned by the BBC and had won an

Academy Award in l966 for best documentary. Although it has been

shown in a few movie theatres in the US, it has not been

presented on TV. "The War Game" is shocking, but is not

sensationalized. It was carefully researched and based on actual

events which occurred in World War II during and after the mass

Allied raids on Germany and the atomic bombings of Japan.

SYNOPSIS

Made in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to and the immediate weeks of the aftermath to a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam starts the war; tensions escalate when the United States authorises tactical nuclear warfare against the Chinese. Although the Soviet and East German forces threaten to invade West Berlin if the US does not withdraw that decision, the US does not acquiesce to Communist demands and occupies West Berlin; two US Army divisions attempt to fight their way into Berlin, but the Russian and East German forces defeat them in battle. The US President launches a pre-emptive, NATO tactical nuclear attack. A limited nuclear war erupts between the West and the East; missiles strike Britain.

The chaos of the prelude to the attack, as city residents are forcibly evacuated to the country, leads to the story's centre in Rochester, which is struck by an off-target missile aimed at Gatwick Airport. Key targets in Kent are RAF Manston and the Maidstone barracks, which are mentioned in scenes showing immediate effects of the attack. The results of that missile's explosion are the instant flash blindness of those who see the explosion, the resultant firestorm caused by the heat wave, and the blast front; later, the collapse of society occurs because of radiation sickness and exhaustion of medical supplies, psychological damage and consequent escalating suicides, and destroyed infrastructure; the British Army burns corpses, while police shoot looters during food riots. The film ends bleakly on the first Christmas Day after the nuclear war, held in a ruined church with a disheveled vicar who futilely attempts to provide hope to his traumatised and injured congregation and concludes with an instrumental version of the hymn Silent Night playing over the closing credits.

FALLOUT SHELTERS IN SUBURBAN USA AND THE CSP (COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN)

HOME FALLOUT SHELTERS AND COMMUNITY SHELTER PLANS

FOR THE AMERICAN

SUBURBS

DURING THE FALLOUT SHELTER SURVEY A HOME WOULD RECIEVE A PACKAGE WITH BOOKLETS A MAP AND A RATING OF HOW MUCH PROTECTION AGAINST A ATOMIC ATTACK THEY COULD EXPECT OUT OF THEIR HOME IN THE FORM OF A PF-RATING (SHOWN AND EXPLAINED BELOW) ONE BOOKLET THAT MADE ITS ROUNDS AND WAS ONE OF THE LAST OF CIVIL DEFENSE BOOKLETS WAS "IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" IT IS SOMETIMES USED TO THIS DAY AROUND THE UNITED STATES AND A CIVIL DEFENSE MOVIE WAS MADE WHICH YOU CAN WATCH BELOW SUFFOLK COUNTYS COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN WAS MAILED OUT IN THE SAME WAY AS THE EXAMPLE "TRI COUNTY CSP" ABOVE AND INCLUDED THE BOOKLET "IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" AND AFTER A DECADE OF TRYING TO COME UP WITH A WORKABLE PLAN MASS MAILED SUFFOLK COUNTYS SOMETIME IN 1971!

"IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" 1968  DOD/OCD
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AND HERE IS ONE OF THE OTHER PARTS OF THE COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN THE MAPS OF PUBLIC SHELTERS TO GO TO IF YOUR HOME RECIEVED A POOR PROTECTION FACTOR OR A FORM LETTER LIKE THE ONE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST, INSIDE WAS A MAP OF YOUR COUNTY AND THE BUILDINGS DESIGNATED AS RADIATION AND BLAST RESISTANT AND HAD ENOUGH VENTILATION PER PERSON, A HOME SHELTER WOULD BE A BETTER SURVIVAL CHOICE AND HOMES THAT CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS FOUND PREPARED RECIEVED A STICKER STATING THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH OCD RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SURVIVAL

THANKS TO THE CIVIL DEFENSE MUSEUM FOR THE EXAMPLE OF A COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN

JUST LIKE THE OTHER EXAMPLE CSP'S (COMMUNITY SHELTER PLANS) A NEWSPAPER FORMAT WAS USED SO COST WAS KEPT LOW THOUGH I DO NOT THINK THEY PLANNED FOR THESE SHELTER PLANS TO LAST BY PUTTING THEM ON NEWSPAPER GRADE PAPER AND MOST OF THESE SHELTER PLANS WERE DONE BECAUSE IT WAS MANDATORY THAT EACH COUNTY OR PROVINCE PLANNING BOARD DO A SHELTER SURVEY AND ASSESMENT AND A WORKABLE PLAN WITH STOCKED SHELTERS SUFFOLK COUNTY'S WAS COMPLETED IN THE EARLY 1970's AND HAD SHELTERS PLANNED IN NON STOCKED BANK VAULTS AND EVEN A DECOMMISSIONED NIKE MISSILE BATTERY MAGAZINE THAT NO LONGER EXSISTED AT PRINTING TIME AND WENT WITH OUT STOCKING SHELTERS AND PLANNING FOR MORE THAN HALF OF SUFFOLKS RESIDENTS TO BUILD AND STOCK THEIR OWN.





A HOME BEING SOLD TO THE PUBLIC AS ATOMIC PROOF  1955

FALLOUT SHELTER WIKI

During the Cold War, many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities. Plans were made, however, to use existing buildings with sturdy below-ground-level basements as makeshift fallout shelters. These buildings were usually placarded with the yellow and black trefoil sign. The initial blast of a nuclear attack might well have rendered these basements either buried under many tons of rubble and thus impossible to leave, or removed their upper framework, thus leaving the basements unprotected. The design of the individual shelter would have determined the ultimate result of such occurrences.[original research?]

The National Emergency Alarm Repeater (N.E.A.R.) program was developed in 1956 during the Cold War to supplement the existing siren warning systems and radio broadcasts in the event of a nuclear attack. The N.E.A.R. civilian alarm device was engineered and tested but the program was not viable and went defunct about 1966.[1] In the U.S. in September 1961, the federal government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program.[2][3] (A letter from President Kennedy advising the use of fallout shelters appeared in the September 1961 issue of Life magazine.)[4]

In November 1961 in Fortune magazine, an article by Gilbert Burck appeared that outlined the plans of Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Chet Holifield for an enormous network of concrete lined underground fallout shelters throughout the United States sufficient to shelter millions of people to serve as a refuge in case of nuclear war.[5]

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.[6][7][8]

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megatonne explosion at a distance of 700 metres. Coupled with this, there was the legal requirement for all supermarkets to store at least one year's supply of canned goods, etc., in blast-proof bunkers in the mountains, along with the requirement of one year's supply of oil; cilivians were required to store at least three weeks of food stuffs in their own shelter. This nation has the highest ratio of shelter space to national population of any country. All these shelters are capable of withstanding nuclear fallout and biological or chemical (NBC) attacks. The largest buildings usually have dedicated shelters tunneled into solid rock. Similar projects have been undertaken in Finland, which requires all buildings with area over 600 m² to have an NBC shelter, and Norway, which requires all buildings with an area over 1000 m² to have a shelter.[9]

The former Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries often designed their underground mass-transit and subway tunnels to serve as bomb and fallout shelters in the event of an attack.

Interest in fallout shelters has largely dropped, as the perceived threat of global nuclear war reduced after the end of the Cold War. In Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by the owners to other uses (e.g., wine cellars, ski rooms, gyms). However, there has been renewed interest seen since 2001[citation needed]. These shelters also provide a haven from natural disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes, although Switzerland is rarely subject to such natural phenomena.

HERE ANOTHER COMMON BOOKLET THAT WAS SENT OUT WITH SHELTER MAPS AND INFO FROM THE LOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICE, THIS PARTICULAR BOOKLET HAD THE HOME PF- PROTECTION FACTOR AND PLANS TO ADD A SHELTER TO THE HOME ALONG WITH "IN TIME OF EMERGENCY" SUBURBAN RESIDENTS WOULD RECIEVE THIS WITH THE COMMUNITY SHELTER PLAN THAT EVERY US COUNTY MAILED OUT TO ITS RESIDENTS.

THE FALLOUT PROTECTION IN YOUR HOME

This booklet is about fallout protection. It will tell you what radioactive fallout is and how you can improve your protection against it if this country were ever attacked with nuclear weapons. But first of all, because your home has a basement you already have some fallout protection. Let's see what that protection is:


On the back cover of this booklet a box like this appears:

Entered in the space labeled Basement "PF" are two numbers which tell you the fallout protection that was calculated for the "center" of your basement and the "best corner" of your basement. Information on the box labeled "Added Weight", is on page 20 of this booklet.






The "PF" above the box stands for "Protection Factor." Before going into the details of what your "Protection Factor" numbers mean, let's talk for a moment about what fallout is.






WHAT IS RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT?







When a nuclear weapon is exploded close to the ground, dirt and other debris are drawn up into the mushroom cloud and pick up the radioactivity created by the explosion. The heaviest pieces of dirt and debris drop back to earth within a few miles of the explosion. But the lighter pieces are carried by the winds for many miles before drifting back to earth.






These radioactive particles are called "fallout." Any part of the United States might be covered with deadly or dangerous amounts of radioactive fallout, depending on which way the winds were blowing and the size and number of nuclear weapons exploded. The radioactivity could cause serious health damage or fatal injury to unprotected persons. In a nuclear attack, the blast, heat, and fire from the explosions would be very destructive, but the destruction would be in areas near the explosions. Radioactive fallout, though, could spread a thin layer over millions of square miles.






Radiation would come from the fallout wherever it settled -- the ground, trees and bushes, or the roof of your home. Fallout does not behave like a gas. In areas that would be affected by dangerous amounts of fallout, the fallout particles would look like dirt or hand and you may see them after they have settled on the ground or other places. The exact amount of radiation given off by the particles can be measured only by special instruments.






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HOW CAN YOUR PROTECTION BE IMPROVED?






There are three ways of improving your protection against fallout -- time, distance, and getting some heavy material between you and the fallout (called "shielding")

 The numbers are given in terms of a "Protection Factor" or PF. This is the relation between the amount of fallout radiation which would be received by a completely unprotected person compared to the amount which would be received by a person in a fallout shelter. For example, a person in a fallout shelter with a PF of 40 would receive about one-fortieth (or 2½ percent) of the radiation he would be exposed to if he were completely unprotected. The higher thePF for your home, the more protection your basement affords against radiation.

Time -- Radioactivity decreases rapidly at first. After an attach, the radiation would be most intense during the first few days. Even so, radiation protection may be needed for an extended period -- days or weeks.



2. Distance -- The amount of radiation is less the further away you are from the source of radiation.


3. Shielding--Any material that is put between a person and the source of radiation cuts down on the amount of radiation that reaches the person. The thicker and heavier the material, the better the protection.






In the event of an attach, you have little control over time and distance, but YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO IMPROVE YOUR PROTECTION BY MEANS OF SHIELDING.






It is the principle of shielding that is employed in fallout shelters. Under the guidance of the Office of Civil Defense, a system of fallout shelters is being developed throughout the nation. It consists of public shelters, private shelters, industrial and home shelters.






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THE FALLOUT SHELTER SYSTEM






As a result of the National Fallout Shelter Survey, in which existing large buildings were examined and evaluated for fallout protection, space for millions of people has been identified. Those community shelters having a protection factor of at least 40 and space for at least 50 people are now being marked with a familiar black and yellow shelter sign. Where necessary storage space is available, they are being stocked with food, water (if needed), sanitary and medical supplies, and radiation detection instruments. The survey is a continuing effort. Through it, a current inventory is maintained of shelters added by new construction.






The fallout protection found in homes with basements represents important additional shelter space.






Personal and other special considerations may make fallout protection at home more practical and desirable than community shelters for certain individuals or families. For example, in rural and suburban communities and even in many cities, families may live a considerable distance from the nearest community shelter. For these families, a home shelter wi9ll provide more accessible fallout protection. Fallout protection at home is usually more accessible to housewives and young children during the day and may be preferred by the whole family when at home.






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HOW MUCH PROTECTION DOES YOUR BASEMENT PROVIDE AGAINST RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT?






In homes, basement areas provide the best shelter against fallout because they are mostly belowground. This gives them a natural shield. This booklets tells you the amount of protection your basement offers and what you can do to increase this protection to provide your family's safety. Keep in mind that fallout shelter provides only limited protection against blast.






Look at the back of this booklet again. Two numbers are printed there which tell you the amount of fallout protection your basement offers. These numbers were calculated for your home by electronic computer from the information you gave in the recent Home Fallout Protection Survey questionnaire. The analytical model used is based on the best scientific information available. It was designed to give the maximum accuracy possible while requiring the minimum information from you. A more complex method might produce more precise results in some cases but would sacrifice simplicity, speed, and economy.

The number in the box marked "center" (see back of your booklet) is the Basement Protection Factor (PF) calculated for the center of your basement. The other number is the PF calculation for the best corner of your basement. If your cover shows an X in place of either PF number, it means the PF is smaller than 10. Information on the box labeled "Added Weight," is on page 20 of this booklet.







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WHICH IS THE BEST CORNER OF YOUR BASEMENT?










The best corner of your basement is the one which has the highest outside ground level--that is, the least amount of basement wall sticking up aboveground. In this corner make a triangle by measuring ten feet from the corner along each wall, and drawing a line between these points (see illustration).


The best corner protection factor listed on the back of this booklet means the average protection factor within the triangle is ablve this value. This 50 sq. ft. area provides adequate fallout shelter space for 5 persons; however, if necessary, several more persons could crowd into the corner area.






A smaller area could be used if equipment such as the furnace occupies part of the corner. If additional shelter space is required or the best corner is not usable, another corner having the next highest ground level to that of the best corner could be used. If all the corners have equal outside ground levels, the most convenient corner may be used, and of course all corners may be used.






The fallout protection afforded in the corner is better closer to the wall and closer to the floor. Therefor, you should liek on the floor next to the wall or sit on the floor with your back against the wall as much as possible. You may stand to stretch, and for essential needs, you can leave the forner shelter area for a few minutes.






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WHAT ABOUT THE CENTER OF THE BASEMENT






In nearly all basements, the highest protection factor is in the corner and lowerst in the center. This means the whole basement can be thought of as a fallout shelter with a protection factor in the center equal to the first PF number on the back of your booklet and a higher protection factor in the best corner equal to the second PF number.






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STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO INCREASE YOUR FALLOUT PROTECTION






If the protection factor in the best corner of your basement as indicated on the back cover is less than 40 and you wish to bring the PF up to the minimum recommended for a public shelter, then you need additional shielding. You can provide additional shielding for your basement by:


1. Permanent shelters -- By making part of your basement into a shelter area or by building a permanent shelter which might also serve other purposes. Listed on the back label are the plans recommended for your home.


2.Preplanned shelters -- By locating shielding materials so that you can complete a shelter quickly in time of crisis.


3. Improvised shelters -- by taking last-minute improvised actions if an emergency actually occurs.






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A WORD OF CAUTION TO THE HOME HANDY MAN



recommended that you build from the detailed plans and lists of materials which are available by mailing the post card enclosed with this booklet



Fallout Shelter Plans A through F which follow are so simple that you may be tempted to construct them from the drawings in this booklet -- and in many cases a thoroughly experienced "do-it-yourselfer" could do this. However, it requires very careful calculation of materials and fasteners to safely hold the heavy materials to be placed overhead; therefore, it is strongly

IMPROVISED SHELTERS

If a community shelter is not available and you have not provided your own fallout shelter, what would you do if you sud


denly heard the United States had been attacked with nuclear weapons?






You can still protect yourself and your family if you know what to do and you act quickly. Pick out a corner of your basement with the highest ground level outside. That is the safest place in the basement. NOW MAKE IT SAFER.






In belowground basements, it is most important to have shielding overhead. Entered in the box labeled "Added Weight" on the back cover of this booklet is a number which tells you approximately how much weight of material should be placed over each square foot of the area over an improvised shelter, as illustrated on the following pages, to obtain a PF of 20, the minimum recommended.






If the letter "Y" appears in the box labeled "Added Weight" this means that adding overhead materials alone will not provide adequate protection ahainst radiation unless heavy walls surrounding the shelter area are also added. If you already have a PF of 40 or more in the best corner of your basement, a zero, "0," will be shown in the box on the back cover labeled "Added Weight" indicating that additional weight will not be required.

Here are the weights of typical shielding materials:


2 inches of sand weighs approximately 35 pounds per sq. ft.


4 inches of wood weighs approximately 10 pounds per sq. ft.


4 inches of water weighs approximately 21 pounds per sq. ft.


4-inch cinder blocks weigh approximately 22 pounds per sq. ft.


4-inch bricks weigh approximately 32 pounds per sq. ft.


4-inch solid concrete blocks weigh approximately 48 pounds per sq. ft.


4 inches of library books weight approximately 15 pounds per sq. ft.






If you have a sturdy table or workbench, place it in the corner. Quickly fill drawers or boxes with the heaviest material which is readily available -- sand or dirt, bricks -- or if you have nothing heavier, newspapers or books. Stack these materials on the top of the workbench. If a "Y" appears in the "Added Weight" box on the back cover of this booklet, then in order to obtain a PF of 40 in the shelter you must place an equivalent of 70 pounds per square foot on top of the shelter as well' as adding heavy material on the sides of the shelter.

Be careful not to overload the table to the point where it will collapse.






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IMPROVISED SHELTERS






If a workbench is not available, you can improvise a somewhat larger shelter area by using furniture, doors, dressers, or other materials. Remove doors from their hinges and place them over supports in the corner of your basement having the best protection. The supports for the table can be chests of drawers or anything that can take a heavy load. Use two or three doors over each support for this shelter to provide sufficient strength to carry the heavy loads placed on them. Place bricks, concrete blocks, earth- or sand-filled drawers, books, a collapsible swimming pool filled with water, etc., over the doors to provide an overhead shield. Use anything with weight that can be moved. The heavier the material, the more the protection. The minimum weight of the material to be added for each square foot over the doors is shown in the "Added Weight" box on the back cover. If a "Y" appears in the "Added Weight" box, then in order to obtain a PF of 20 in the shelter, you must place 70 pounds per square foot on top of the shelter as well as adding heavy material to the sides of the shelter to serve as a vertical shield.

Be careful not to overload the doors to the point where the shelter will collapse.










If the figure entered in the box marked "Added Weight" on the back cover happens to be a number such as 30, this means that every square foot over the shelter area should be covered with materials having a sufficient height so as to weigh 30 pounds. Using the weights of typical shielding materials as given on page 20, the required shielding material can be obtained by the following:


Approximately 3½ inches of earth or sand, or


Approximately 12 inches of wood, or


Approximately 6 inches of water, or


4-inch (nominal thickness) layer of bricks, or


Approximately 8 inches of library books.






The shielding materials can be used individually such as providing a 3½-inch layer of sand completely over the improvised shelter or in conjunction with other materials as shown in the illustration on the opposite page.






If vertical shielding is required (a "Y" has appeared in the "Added Weight" box) this can be obtained by placing heavy materials along the sides of the improvised shelter. Examples are: single course of bricks or concrete blocks, washing machine filled with water, chest of drawers filled with earth, deep-freeze, two rows of books, etc.






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GENERAL






Until the extent of the radiation thread in your town is determined by trained monitors using special instruments, you should stay in your shelter as much as possible. For essential needs, you can leave your shelter for a few minutes. Before leaving the shelter for longer periods of time, listen to your radio station for information and instructions. A battery operated radio should be available for this purpose.






For quick reference, after you have finished reading this booklet, hang it up in the corner of your basement having the best protection so that it will be available in an emergency.


















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DETAILED PLANS ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE






Detailed plans of many of the shelters you have read about in this booklet are available free of charge.






These plans contain construction details, suggested construction sequences and lists of materials needed. The plans supplement the material presented in this booklet.






Before construction any of the permanent shielding devices described here, you should check to see that the construction conforms to your local building code.






The plans may be obtained by sending the attached post card to the Jeffersonville Census Operation Office, 1201 Easy 10th Street, Jeffersonville, Indians 47130






Be sure that you identify the plan or plans you want as they are designated in this booklet:


PLAN A -- CEILING MODIFICAITON TO BASEMENT -- See page 7


PLAN B -- ALTERNATE CEILING MODIFICATION TO BASEMENT -- See page 9


PLAN C -- CONCRETE BLOCK SHELTER -- See page 11


PLAN D -- SNACK BAR SHELTER --See page 13


PLAN E -- TILT-UP STORAGE UNIT -- See page 14


PLAN F -- LEAN-TO SHELTER -- See page 15






For further information on fallout protection and personal and family survival, consult your local Civil Defense Director and send for the personal and family survival

THIS STICKER AFFIXED TO THE BOOKLET GAVE THE INFORMATION AS TO THE PROTECTION YOUR HOME COULD GIVE IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR ATTACK




THE UNITED STATES SURVEYED MILLIONS OF HOMES DURING THE NATIONAL FALLOUT SHELTER PLAN AND THIS LETTER CAME WITH A RATING OR PROTECTION FACTOR ON THE ENVELOPE AS EXPLAINED ABOVE AND SHOWN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN NOT LOCATED IN URBAN AREAS COULD SURVIVE A NUCLEAR ATTACK AND WOULD FARE FAR BETTER THAN THEIR COUNTERPART IN A PUBLIC SHELTER,WHATS NOT EVER EXPLAINED WOULD BE THE INJURIES AND SHOCK CASES,RADIATION SICKNESS AND EVEN THE SHELTER BEING NOT STOCKED OR NOT HAVE ENOUGH RATIONS AS THE SANITARY SYSTEMS WOULD START OVERLOADING AND THE TIGHT NOT PRIVATE PLACE FOR SHELTER RESIDENTS (BEDDING WAS NEVER STOCKED IN SHELTERS) SO SLEEPING ON A CONCRETE FLOOR WITH NO BLANKET THE SMELL OF UNWASHED BODIES AND PROBABLY THE THIEVERY OF SURVIVAL ITEMS BY SOCIETYS SOCIOPATHS THINKING ONLY OF THEIR SURVIVAL,REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SUPERDOME DURING HURRICANE KATRINA AND THAT EXPLAINS WHY A HOME SHELTER WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND SELF SAFE FROM THE THINGS THAT A SITUATION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD CAUSE, JUST THE FACT THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY TYPE OF SITUATION TO COMPARE AND PLAN MAKES A HOME SHELTER NOT ONLY A SAFER REFUGE BUT A BETTER IDEA.

 

YOU BET YOUR LIFE.. AND THE LIVES OF YOUR FAMILY IF YOU FAIL TO....... (1963)

THIS GREAT CIVILDEFENSE ADVERTISEMENT COMES FROM A SITE WITH SOME GREAT CIVIL DEFENSE RECORDINGS BOTH VIDEO AND AUDIO AND IS WORTH CHECKING OUT IF YOU LOVE HISTORY ITS AUTHENTICHISTORY.COM JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAVE SEEN IT ALL...........

NYC NIKE SITE NY-15 AIR DEFENSE FROM THE ISLAND OF THE DEAD

COLLIERS MAGAZINE ARTISTIC RENDERING OF NYC (NEW YORK COUNTY) MANHATTAN  WITH A DETONATION OF A SOVIET ATOMIC WEAPON AROUND MIDTOWN VIA A LONG RANGE SOVIET
New York City at risk, 1950--In "Hiroshima U.S.A." artist Chesley Bonestell imagined an atomic bomb attack on the city. Painted for the cover of Collier's, August 5, 1950 (reproduced courtesy of Bonest BOMBER GETTING THROUGH THE AIR DEFENSE NETWORK AROUND NYC

 NY-15 Fort Slocum (david and harts islands) Davids Island Home to the Fire Control Point And Radar And Tracking Facilities Shared The Island With A USAF Base That Did Not Have Flight Operations Or Defense Capabilities And Hundreds of Years Of History While Its Brother Harts Island Was The Island Where Potters Field Was and Various Correctional Facilities ,The Missile Men Shared Space With Over 3/4 s of Million People,..Dead That is And if you were  on The Island You Were Part of  Or Were a

1) US Army NIKE Missileer 2) NYC Corrections Officer 3) Rikers Island  Inmate 4)The Walking Dead

The US Army Left The Island to NYC Corrections in 1963  all other New York Area NIKE sites Lasted till At Least 1975, Weird....

Aerial view of the Integrated Fire Control Area for Nike missile Battery NY-15 at Fort Slocum (adjacent to center and lower right mortar pits), looking north, late  1950s

.               AERIAL VIEW OF HART ISLAND Battery NY-15:“Combat-Ready Outfit”

In a 2007 interview, Rich Lowery, who served as a radar operator in the Sighting Station from 1959 to 1961, described daily life at the battery. Most of the work was routine: daily radar adjustment, constant tracking of local commercial and military air traffic, regular shifts on guard duty and administrative tasks, studying, waiting and watching. There were drills too, of course, and on a couple of occasions, there was the excitement of a real alert when an unknown aircraft flew into the battery’s patrol sector

Mr. Lowery remembers the pride he and his fellow crewmen felt in their work. It was the Cold War, and they "were a… combat-ready outfit.”

THE AMAZING NIKE FACILITY KNOWN AS NY-15 IN THE LONG ISLAND SOUND 1 MILE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND STANDING ON THE ELEVATED PLATFORM OF THE J TRAIN AT MYRTLE AVENUE IF YOU LOOK NORTH SOME OF THE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS TOWERS ARE VISIBLE WAY ACROSS QUEENS AND KINGS (BROOKLYN) COUNTIES AND CAN BE SEEN FROM CITY ISLAND BEACH IN THE BRONX

RADAR LOCATION BEING CHECKED AT THE CONTROL POINT THE RADIO TOWER IN THE BACKGROUND IS QUITE POSSIBLY THE TOWER VISIBLE FROM BROOKLYN

SCHOOL FIELD TRIP TO NY-15 NIKE FACILITY OF NYC AREA SHOWN IS THE NIKE "AJAX" THE FIRST OF THE ANTI AIR MISSILES DEPLOYED AROUND LARGE CITIES THIS INCLUDED  GROUND TO AIR ARTILERY UNITS AND WERE SETUP  SOMETIMES INDEPENDENT OF A NIKE UNIT INSIDE CITY LIMITS, WHAT IF THIS TYPE OF AIR DEFENSE WAS  CURRENT TECHNOLOGY HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF IT WERE USED TO DOWN A HIJACKED 757 HEADED TOWARDS A CITY OR NUCEAR POWER PLANT? THE MEN WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE BACK THEN HAD TO BE SURE THE UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT WAS AN ENEMY AIRCRAFT WHEN ONE STRAYED INTO THE RADAR AREA FOR THIS NIKE BATTERY, ITS A LOT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DON'T FORGET THEY DID COME IN NUCLEAR VARIETYS AT OTHER NY SITES. 

PERIMETER FENCING AROUND THE HART ISLAND NIKE SITE WAS PATROLLED BY K-9 TEAMS AND JEEP PATROLS AS WELL AS SEARCHLIGHTS IN CERTAIN AREAS  



HERE A US ARAADCOM  UNIT EXPLAINS THE MISSION OF PROTECTION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK NEXT TO A MOBILE LAUNCHER  ARMED WITH A NIKE AJAX CONTAINING A H.E.High Explosive) WARHEAD NOT  the NUCLEAR TYPE

A TEXTBOOK SCHEMATIC OF THE AVERAGE NIKE MISSILE BATTERY LAUNCH AREA

HERE A US ARMY NIKE CREW SIT ON THE LAUNCHER OF A NIKE UNIT  NEW YORK NIKE MISILEERS  WERE ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED UNITS WINNING MANY PRACTICE WARGAMES AND ABILITY TO SET UP AND PUT THEIR MISSILE ON TARGET EXERCISES FASTER THAN ANY OTHER
IN THE NATION 

US ARMY OPEN HOUSE WITH NIKE AJAX IN FOREGROUND ON DAVIDS ISLAND AFTER 1963 OR FORT SLOCUM THE ISLANDS IN THE WESTERN PART OF LONG ISLAND SOUND ARE SO FULL OF HISTORY ITS A SHAME THEY WERE NOT PRESERVED AND HARTS ISLAND IS UNAPPROACHABLE DUE TO ITS CONNECTION WITH RIKERS ISLAND. INMATES WORKING AT POTTERS FIELD WHICH HAS BEEN ON THE ISLAND A HUNDRED +YEARS  INTER NYCs INDIGENT AND UNCLAIMED BODIES OF THE DECEASED WITH NO FAMILY AND ARE BURIED IN LARGE PITS.

ANNA M CROSS TOURS HARTS ISLANDDOC PUTS BASE BUILDINGS TO USE
The caption for the above photo in DOC's 1962 annual report reads: "At the opening of the new housing quarters for minor offenders on Hart island, Director of Operations Anthony Principe, Commissioner Anna M. Kross and Warden Edward Dros review the potential of the new annex. Note the army-barracks huts in the rear. Inmate labor performs landscaping and maintenance chores." [From the NYCHS-maintained archives at the NYC DOC Academy

THE END OF THE ISLAND AND DEACTIVATION OF THE NIKE SITE

JUST IN HISTORY OF THESE ISLANDS I COULD START A WEBPAGE HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF USING THE ISLANDS TO HOUSE INMATES,CIVIL WAR PRISONERS,WAYWARD YOUTH,POTTERS FIELD,NIKE SITE ,ETC

One of the first Nike missile sites constructed within the New York metropolitan area was a site known as Nike missile battery "NY-15." Site NY-15 was also one of the most unusual Nike installations, for its facilities were constructed on two separate islands located in the extreme western portion of Long Island Sound. 

The site's headquarters and its Control Area (containing the site's radars and the ground-based missile guidance equipment) were located on Davids Island, near New Rochelle. Its Launcher Area (containing the missiles and< the launching infrastructure) was constructed on nearby Hart Island. By building on these two islands, the Army was able to quickly establish site NY-15 with a minimum of effort, avoiding the often difficult and contentious process of acquiring parcels of privately-owned land from individual owners.

MISSILE ASSEMBLY & TEST BUILDING (Ruins)


The fins and control surfaces of the missiles were attached within the building that stood here where also their internal guidance equipment was tested before they were moved to the adjacent fueling and warheading area. A portion of the curving concrete path over which the missiles were moved can be still be seen at the north end of the foundation.

Davids Island was already under federal control. It was the site of Fort Slocum, a seacoast fort established during the mid-19th century to defend the approaches to New York City. During the latter half of the 20th century, Fort Slocum served as a headquarters for various military commands and was also the site of several armed forces schools. Due to the location of its headquarters and Control Area at this installation, Nike missile site NY-15 was also known as the Fort Slocum Nike missile battery.

The limited size of Davids Island, however, dictated that the Launcher Area containing the missiles had to be located elsewhere. Hart Island, located some two miles to the southwest, provided a relatively easy solution in this situation. The island was already owned by the City of New York. Due to its use by the Department of Correction, casual visitors were not permitted. Hart Island's proximity to Davids Island, and the clear and unobstructed "line of sight" between the two islands (an essential requirement of the Nike ground-based guidance and control system) made it an appropriate location for the Army's new missile launching facility.

CRANE - ACID FUELING AREA

The most dangerous operations were performed within a compound here where sloping earthen walls (now largely obscured by vegetation) were constructed to deflect the force of an accidental explosion. The missiles received their liquid fuel/oxidizer mixture here and the warheads were inserted before the missiles were joined to their booster rockets. The crane was used to lift and move the missiles and other components.

Nike missile battery NY-15, the only missile site within to New York metro area to be located entirely on two offshore islands, was declared operational during 1955. It was initially designated as Battery "D" of the Army's 66th Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion. Headquartered at historic Fort Totten in northern Queens, the 66th Battalion also controlled three additional Nike missile batteries defending the New York metropolitan area

Nike missile site NY-15's Launcher Area was situated within a narrow parcel of land within the northern half of Hart Island. The Launcher Area contained all of the facilities needed to assemble, test, store and launch the site's compliment of twenty supersonic Nike Ajax missiles.

One important function of the Launcher Area was the initial assembly and testing of the missiles. Due to Interstate Commerce Commission regulations restricting shipments of explosive materials, Nike Ajax missiles had to be shipped to Nike missile sites nationwide in an unassembled condition. Major components (missile bodies, fins, booster rockets and warheads) were transported to the Hart Island site by means of a special pier complex constructed by the Army on the island's western shore

THE INSIDE OF THE IFC INTEGRATED FIRE CONTROL AREA ON DAVIDS ISLAND

 THE TWO ISLANDS ARE VERY DIFFERENT AND DAVID ISLAND HAS THE EMPTY BUILDINGS AND CIVIL WAR ERA JAILS AND CHURCHES A VERY BEAUTIFU PLACE BUT OVER ON HARTS DO NOT GET CAUGHT NYC CORRECTIONS ARE NYCs BOLDEST or TOUGHEST AND TRESPASSING COULD BE CONSTRUED AS YOU WERE LEAVING SOMETHING FOR A INMATE TO GET WHILE WORKING AT POTTERS FIELD AND ESCAPE WITH OR BRING BACK INTO THE FACIITY, THEY DO NOT PLAY, NIGHTIME TRIPS SUCK SINCE ITS DARK AND NOT ENJOYABLE SO DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME , IF YOU CAMP OUT BE VERY DISCREET AND LEAVE BEFORE 3pn Courtesy of urban spelunking friends....





THE FORT SLOCUM (DAVIDS ISLAND )WATER TOWER,
THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE HAD A BASE ON THE ISLAND THAT WAS FOR VARIOUS DUTIES WITH NO AIR OPERATIONS OR DEFENSE OPERATIONS

TEENS DROWN TRYING TO VISIT NIKE SITE
 A boat believed to have been used by the four teenage boys who vanished in the frigid waters off City Island a week ago has been found at nearby Hart Island, police said yesterday.

Harbor cops spotted the capsized 7-foot fiberglass dinghy Friday morning when ice shifted, police said. The black-hulled craft with a beige interior was in shallow water about 30 feet from the Hart Island shoreline.
The discovery was seen as grim confirmation of the boys' fate, but the parents of one teen refused to accept the boat as evidence their son is dead.
No trace of the youths has been found.
An exhaustive search effort covering 60 miles of Long Island Sound was launched Jan. 25 for four friends - Max Guarino, 17, of Manhattan; Henry Badillo, 17, of the Bronx; Charles (Carlo) Wertenbaker, 16, of City Island, and Andrew Melnikov, 16, of the upper East Side - who apparently had set out from City Island for Hart Island, a half-mile away, in a rowboat the previous night.
'We're gonna die'
The last contact from them was a 12-second call to 911 in which Henry said, "Hello . . . we're on the Long Island Sound in a boat off the coast of City I. . . . We're gonna die."
(the bodies were not found until May)

Brief History of Hart Island Nike Missile Site


-- The Cold War in LI Sound: Part III --

By Donald E. Bender




The entire base was enclosed behind steel cyclone type fences topped barbed wire and access was strictly controlled by armed sentries. Large warning signs, posted at regular intervals, helped to discourage curious boaters from attempting to land and trespass.


The base also contained a Generator Building featuring diesel generators that supplied electrical power to the missile site whenever an alert was called. Internal power was used during practice alerts in order to simulate actual wartime conditions during which the region's electrical power grid might have become unstable due to bomb damage, the electromagnetic effects of nuclear detonations or deliberate sabotage.
The Hart Island missile site and all of its "sister" sites within the New York metropolitan area were initially equipped with the first-generation Nike missile system known as Nike Ajax.Beginning in 1958, however, select Nike installations within the region were upgraded to fire a new, second-generation Nike missile known as the Nike Hercules.



The Nike Hercules missile represented a vast improvement over the Nike Ajax. It offered a higher maximum speed, improved altitude capabilities, and roughly three times the range of its predecessor. More significantly, the Nike Hercules could be armed with a powerful, defensive nuclear warhead enabling a single Hercules missile to destroy a formation of several attacking aircraft.
The greatly enhanced capabilities of the Nike Hercules system meant that fewer missile sites were required to defend the New York metropolitan area. Only 10 of the original 19 Nike missile sites in the region were upgraded to use the Army's new missile system. Some of the sites equipped with the new Hercules missiles remained in operation through 1974. By contrast, all of the unmodified Nike Ajax equipped sites in the region were inactivated by 1963. Probably due to its close proximity to the center of the New York Defense Area, Nike site NY-15 did not receive the new Nike Hercules missile system. It continued to operate its Nike Ajax missiles until it was finally inactivated during 1961.
NIKE BASE CLOSING

The Army presents NYC Correction Commissioner Anna M. Kross with a wooden propeller from a target aircraft in this digital version of the Hart Island Nike base-closing ceremonies photo. [From the NYCHS-maintained archives at the NYC DOC Academy.]

Battery "D" of the Army's 1st Battalion, 55th Artillery - the second and final unit to command this site - held its final inactivation ceremonies on June 30, 1961. During the ceremonies, the battery commander presented New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Anna M. Kross with a wooden propeller from a Radio Controlled Aerial Target or "RCAT." Also attending the inactivation ceremonies on Hart Island that day were the Deputy Correction Commissioner and the Hart Island Warden.
Following the deactivation of the Army's Nike facility, the New York City Department of Correction acquired the former Hart Island missile installation. On July 23, 1962, the DOC opened a new facility for the "housing of family court cases and traffic offenders". Commissioner Anna M. Kross presided over the opening. DOC PUTS BASE BUILDINGS TO USE

The caption for the above photo in DOC's 1962 annual report reads: "At the opening of the new housing quarters for minor offenders on Hart island, Director of Operations Anthony Principe, Commissioner Anna M. Kross and Warden Edward Dros review the potential of the new annex. Note the army-barracks huts in the rear. Inmate labor performs landscaping and maintenance chores." [From the NYCHS-maintained archives at the NYC DOC Academy.]



The Army's prefabricated, steel Utica-style barracks, left behind after the site was closed, provided accommodations for the island's new temporary residents. The Army's diesel-powered electrical generation facility remained in use and was operated for the DOC by inmates residing on the island.



Numerous relics of the Army's Hart Island missile launching facility remain visible today. Close to the island's northern end, the exterior surfaces of the two underground missile magazines are easily discerned. The adjacent fueling and warheading area remains intact, although its protective earthen berms are now heavily overgrown with vegetation. A rusted crane designed to lift and move missiles now stands idle near the center of this facility.

AIR VENTALATION HOODS SURVIVE THE NEGLECT ON HARTS ISLAND .HERE THE MISSILE MAGAZINE  OVERGROWN AND CLOSED ARE DISAPPEARING INTO HARTS ISLAND.

INMATES REPLACE SOLDIERS AT BASE

Under "Workhouse of the City of New York," the following text

"On July 23, 1962, the abandoned US Army Nike Missile Base located at this institution was opened as a facility for the housing of Family Court cases and traffic offenders . . . Here 105 first offender traffic and family commitments are satisfactorily and healthfully housed in the metal Utica-type barracks buildings abanonded by the army . . . "Inmates housed therein do all sanitation and other minor maintenance requirements, along with the establishment of inmate fire watchers on a 24-hour basis. Inmates are also assigned to the disel-powered generator plant where they have successfully mantained efficient and continual operation of all power plant facilitAcademy.]

Further south, foundation remnants of the demolished Missile Assembly and Test Building can be distinguished. Several concrete slab foundations, created to support the Army's prefabricated barracks, are located nearby. Although the barracks were eventually removed by the Department of Corrections, the Army's combined kitchen and mess hall remains intact. It currently serves inmates from the Riker's Island correctional facility who have volunteered to perform burial or landscaping activities on Hart Island. On the island's western shore, the pier complex constructed by the Army to move men, missiles and supplies to and from the Nike installation lies abandoned and unused.

Today, the Cold War is but a memory. New Yorkers no longer live in profound fear of a nuclear Armageddon. The tense and often frightening circumstances of that era which brought the Army and its Nike missiles to Hart Island are long past. A monument erected by inmates on the island during 1948 stands close to the abandoned missile site. Inscribed on its northern facade is a single word: PEACE. How times have changd

THE PEACE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BEFORE THE NIKE SITE 1948 BY PRISONERS WHY? WAS IT TO APPEASE RESTLESS SPIRITS OF THE DEAD THAT ARE BURIED HERE ON HARTS ISLAND THE OFFICIAL AMOUNT IS IN THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS I WOULD SAY IT IS PROBABLY CLOSER TO OVER A MILLION SINCE THE RECORDS KEPT ON POTTERS FIELD MOST LIKELY WERE NOT SCRUTINIZED AND THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS HERE HUNDREDS OF YEARS, I TEACH A CLASS ON RIKERS ONCE A MONTH AND HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET PERMISSION TO GO OUT TO HARTS ISLAND FOR A VISIT AND IT IS HARD , MR BENDER IS A LUCKY GUY TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VISIT THIS SITE AND I USE SOME OF HIS HISTORY FROM A CORRECTIONS WEBSITE, THIS TWO ISLAND  BASE IS A UNIQUE DEFENSE SYSTEM AND I AM SUPRISED IT WAS NOT USED AT A BETTER CAPACITY BY UPGRADING IT TO HERCULES TYPE MISSILES ,EVEN WITH THE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO NYC THE ISLANDS COULD OF BEEN USED ALOT BETTER THAN A PLACE FOR CIVIL WAR POWS AND THE CONSTANT JAIL THEMED USES AND AN ISLAND OF  BURYING THE POOR.
THE ISLAND WAS NEVER UPGRADED TO A NUCLEAR WARHEAD CARRYING HERCULES TYPE MISSILE  BUT I CAME ACROSS THIS STORY AThttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread321772/pg

This information comes to me from a retired USA Air Force officer, who was dating my elderly and widowed aunt last year. Based upon my own investigation, the story seems plausible.



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Hart Island is a small and somewhat desolate island off the coast of the Bronx Borough of New York City, in Long Island Sound. The island is off limits to the public. You will be arrested if you make any attempt to approach the island.



In the 1950s and 1960s, this island was home to a highly secret base, containing at least 24 Nike Ajax missiles. This comprised part of the USA anti-ballistic missile system, to protect New York City, intended as a last-line of defense against a nuclear air attack by the USSR or other foreign nuclear power.



In the 1960’s, there was an attempt to replace the missile with a later generation weapon system known as the Nike Hercules missile. Unlike the Nike Ajax, this new system used nuclear tipped warheads so as to more reliably kill incoming bombers and missiles.



In 1961, a single nuclear tipped Nike Hercules missile was moved onto Hart Island as an initial, and fully operational deployment. The nuclear warhead was stored separately from the missile, but was occasionally installed on it during drills and exercises, which happened every few months.



Whenever the nuclear warhead was added to the missile (a process which took a full day) there were several safeguards. To prevent accidental triggering of the warhead, a special mechanical interlock – a “safing key” – had to be physically from the warhead, and insert into the fire control panel. The fire control panel could not be disconnected from the radar system, and put in “drill mode”, until this special key had been inserted into its proper “safe” location.



According to my source, the second or third time they conducted an operational drill, they had to stop the simulated firing of the missile due to a technical problem. They decided to scratch the test. When they went to remove the warhead, a supervisor found this safing key was still inserted!



The key that had been inserted into the fire control panel was a SPARE key. Apparently, the technicians had not realized that the key inserted into the fire control panel was suppose to be the same key that existed on the warhead. The warhead had not been adequately disabled.



Here is the scariest part. The technical glitch, which had stopped the exercise, was that an accelerometer had blown out, so that the warhead thought the missile had actually been launched. This was the second (and only) safety that prevented nuclear detonation.



Given the failure of the accelerometer, and failure to remove the safing key from the warhead, if the exercise had not been stopped, THE NIKE NUCLEAR WARHEAD WOULD HAVE DETONATED.



Note: This small, desolate, unapproachable Hart Island is only about five miles from the center of Manhattan Island, New York City.



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To anyone with inside info. Do you think this story could be true?

REMEMBER DO NOT KILL THE MESSENGER , MAY BE IT WAS TRUE MAY BE NOT I WILL KEEP ON EYE ON THAT POST TO SEE THE OUTCOME.SOME OF THIS POST WAS FROM DON BENDER A MAN DEDICATED TO KEEPING THIS GREAT HISTORY ALIVE.  THANK YOU.

Bender Associates Historical Consultants. A recognized authority on Cold War air defense facilities, his activities have been featured in major media including the New York Times, WNBC-TV and National Public Radio. He maintains an extensive web site on Nike Missiles and Missile Sites. He can be reached via e-mail at bender@alpha.fdu.edu or by telephone at (973) 535-8362