The Office of Civilian Defense was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941. It was responsible for planning community health programs and medical care of civilians in the event ...

The Federal Civil Defense Administration was organized by President Harry S. Truman on 1 December 1950 through Executive Order 10186, and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil ...

Civil defense came out of World War II and into the Cold War era. Once the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons and a delivery system for those weapons, ... Office of Emergency Management.