Recently, I wrote about the dangers of government action when preparing for adverse conditions. While conducting some research on this topic for a planning document I came across a couple of interesting examples.
In the old Soviet Union during the Chernobyl reactor catastrophe, it became illegal for an ordinary citizen to possess any type of radiation meter. I came across reports that Japanese police confiscated radiation meters from citizens who were taking their own measurements after the Fukushima disaster.
Perhaps I should have recommended that the client read Fuller’s The Day We Bombed Utah.