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Kosmos 954
Kosmos 954 (Wikipedia)
Satellites falling to the Earth may sound like an unlikely event of concern in the Northwest Territories, but it has happened and is therefore a foreseeable event. Kosmos 954 was one such satellite. Launched in September 1977 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kosmos 954 was a reconnaissance satellite designed to monitor oceanic traffic including surface vessels and nuclear submarines using radar. It was powered by a liquid sodium-potassium thermionic converter driven by a nuclear reactor containing about 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (U235). By December its orbit became increasingly erratic. North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) identified the satellite with Space Catalog Number 10361. Soviet Union officials warned their western counterparts that they had lost control of the satellite and that the system designed to safely eject the reactor core had failed. On 24 January the satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on a northeastward track over western Canada. The debris field stretched for 600 km from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake (now in Nunavut).
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International Distinctive Sign for Civil Defence (Wikipedia)
{This article is partially original but also drawn verbatim from Wikipedia entries: Civil Defence; Civil defencese by country - still being reviewed...}
Historical Development
Civil defence is a concept aimed at the protection of citizens of a state who are non-combatants (hors de combat) from human-made or natural disasters. The concept has its origins in the First World War with the bombing by German Zeppelins and Gotha bombers of the population centres of England. In the 1920s the Air Raid Precautions Committee was established and it estimated that, based on the raids of World War 1, there could be as many as 17,500 casualties per week. With increasing political tensions in the 1930s and especially with the apparent air superiority of fascist Germany and Italy (and lessons from the Spanish Civil War - i.e. Guernica), the UK Civil Defence Service was established. Over 1.9M served with Civil Defence and 2,400 died from enemy action. The United States did something similar.
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Civil Emergency Links
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- NWT Public Safety (MACA)
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