Emergency Resource Management Planning Project files, 1960-1968.

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Emergency Resource Management Planning Project files, 1960-1968.

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Correspondence, reports, and minutes of a project assigned to draft emergency resource management plans. The plans were drafted by state government officials and representatives of private industry and were to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. The plans provide for stabilization of the economy and management of essential resources such as food, water, gas, electric power, telecommunications, solid fuels, manpower, and health resources.

2.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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