As I recall, some of the Civil Defense procedures developed and published by the US federal government during the 1950s and 1960s for recovery after a nuclear war DID address very large-scale (ie, regional and national) disaster recovery issues.

Anyone working for a depository library have access to any of these publications?

Best regards.

Fred
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From: Virginia Jones
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Sent: Jun 18, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [RM] Vital Records

Elizabeth and Carrie are correct.  We have learned a great deal about
our vital records practices from the tragedy of Katrina.  In addition to
the accessibility of duplicate records they already discussed, I've also
noted that the old procedures of disaster recovery based on getting to
damaged records within 24 - 48 hours just does not apply.  Too many
folks were not able or not allowed to access damaged records for up to 6
weeks following the event.  Established salvage and recovery tasks based
on the old procedures just do not work under those conditions.

Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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