First C. D. Coordinating Center
First C. D. Coordinating Center
First C. D. Coordinating Center Near Wheaton, Illinois, a civil defense control center designed to withstand a near-direct nuclear blast opens. Now operational, it will provide an emergency nerve center for disaster relief work in Chicago, Gary (Indiana) and Hammond (Indiana). Exterior one-story building, U.S. flag on pole in foreground, radio towers in background. People gathered, police officers in uniform (with badges) along front of the group. Interior staircase looking up toward outdoors, roof thing slides over the stairs to close out the outside world. Fortress, defense, bunker. Interior room with maps on wall; some show Illinois. One says, Pattern A Composite Fallout Probability From Target Areas In Illinois. Another says, Illinois Warning Communications Network. Interior, spare bunk beds. Equipment, controls (one says Water Heater). Men, some in military uniform, gather around men sitting at little cubicles. The men in cubicles looking at some kind of equipment.