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An Analysis of the Czech Republic's Civilian Population's Awareness of Behavior in the Event of a Nuclear Weapon Attack
KRČAL, Jan
The main objective of this thesis entitled "An Analysis of the Czech Republic's Civilian Population's Awareness of Behavior in the Event of a Nuclear Weapon Attack" was to find out about the awareness of the Czech Republic's population about the pro-tection options against the effects of nuclear weapons. The introductory section contains an overview of these weapons, divided into particular types. It also contains a summary of their primary and secondary effects on the human body, and it is concluded with an overview of the recommended procedures and methods of personal protection. There are several means of improvised protection and methods of their use which are presented in this last mentioned overview, as well as recommended actions in this considered situation, beginning from the moment of warn-ing through shelter to the evacuation. There are results of the survey have been realized in the form of a questionnaire, and have been evaluated and with their graphic representation in the next part of the thesis. The part with the evaluation of the answers also contains a short comment re-garding each question and then it is concluded with a statistical evaluation. The survey respondents were divided by age into the first and the second groups; the age limit was chosen as the date of birth in 1980. The first group represented the respondents born before that year; the second group included those whose date of birth was in that year or later. This made it possible to assess the knowledge of particular generations, especially given the limited availability of information given after 1990 at the primary and secon-dary schools regarding this subject. The survey results showed that the awareness of the Czech Republic's popula-tion of the actions to be undertaken in the case of a nuclear weapon attack is signifi-cantly lower than what is necessary for effective individual protection. There is also significantly lower awareness within the generation born in or after 1980, as compared with the older generations. The solution of this unsatisfactory situation is to incorporate the issues into the lectures at the primary and secondary schools, preferably directly into the curriculum of those schools.

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