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Survival plans afoot against 10-kiloton N. Korean warhead

COURTESY TOBY CLAIRMONT

Several “Pre-Packaged Disaster Hospitals” were arrayed around Oahu during the Cold War. Medical supplies from the 1950s for one of the hospitals were stored until 2004 at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency’s Birkhimer Tunnel along one slope of Diamond Head.