Big budget for Soviet shelters
NZPA Washington The Soviet Union is spending more than one billion dollars a year to protect its population from nuclear attacks, 10 times more than America’s civil defence spending, according to the United States Defence Department. “Indications are that the Soviets are spending more than one billion dollars a year on civil defence and that survival training, hardware. and shelter-building know-how are now widespread in their society,” said Mr John Davis, director of the department's civil preparedness agency, in Wash ington. Mr Davis, in a speech prepared for delivery to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's civil defence committee in Brussels, said the Soviet Union was apparently hoping to keep casu alties from any nuclear at tack down to 5 per cent oi the population. American defence planners have argued that the extent of the Soviet civil defence plan shows that Russia has not ruled out the possibility of nuclear war.
“Whether they are right in their analysis is less im portant than if they think they are right,” Mr Davi said.
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