Disaster Planning: An Unexercised Responsibility

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Despite his scientific advances, man remains helpless before the titanic quirks of nature — hurricanes and floods — and singularly ineffective in controlling man-made catastrophe — fires, explosions and plane crashes. His developed cerebrum, however, gives him the ability to plan ahead and prepare for what he is unable to prevent. In this issue of the Journal Dr. Menczer's article, "The Hartford Disaster Exercise," gives evidence of the need of preparation in a city that should have been sensitized to the need by its past experience1 but apparently was not. Similar and almost identical experience has been related in Boston, . . .

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