Harry E. Roderik (left), director of the attack warning division of the federal civil defense administration, makes a telephone check with an attack warning past, from the operations room in his headquarters at Battle Creek, Mich. Standing by is Clark Nesbitt, warning operations officer. Behind them is a huge attack warning map, on which are plotted the position of planes, United States and foreign.

Photo is dated 1955.

Photo measures 7 x 9.25 inches.