No Second Chance, A CONELRAD in practice radio public service drama and documentary from 1955. Written by Jack Kessler, Directed by Eric Howlett, and Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit.
The CONELRAD Radio was a method of emergency broadcasting to the public of the United States in the event of an enemy attack during the first part of the Cold War. It was intended to allow continuous broadcast of civil defense information to the public using radio stations, while rapidly switching the transmitter stations to make the broadcasts unsuitable for Soviet bombers that might attempt to home in on the signals (as was done during World War II, when German radio stations, based in or near cities, were used as beacons by bomber pilots).
CONELRAD was in operation from 1951 until August 5th, 1963. U.S. President Harry S. Truman established CONELRAD in 1951. After the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles reduced the likelihood of a bomber attack, and the development of superior navigation systems that did not rely on radio direction finding for use in those bomber aircraft that were sent against the United States, CONELRAD was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) on August 5, 1963, which was later replaced by the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on January 1, 1997.
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