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Posted by Raven on May 3rd, 2005

I hate to be a doomsday type of person, but when I read this I thought…what a bunch of IDIOTS.
If a nuclear bomb explodes over any city, town-anywhere- NO one will be left alive. There will be no one to rescue and most likely no responders. Sure, a few unlucky will survive, only to die within days anyway.

All this talk about dirty bombs has probably deterred the terrorists by now anyway…they want the REAL thing, a TNWH. By the time word got out about a DB, it would be too late. I would like to see these articles explain the medical aspects of nuclear/radiation fall out on human bodies. You would all be doomsdayers too.

When asked during the campaign debates to name the gravest danger facing the United States, President Bush and challenger Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) gave the same answer: a nuclear device in the hands of terrorists.

But more than 3 1/2 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. government has failed to adequately prepare first responders and the public for a nuclear strike, according to emergency preparedness and nuclear experts and federal reports.

Although hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved by rapidly evacuating people downwind of a radiation cloud, officials have trained only small numbers of first responders to prepare for such an event, according to public health specialists and government documents. And the information given to the public is flawed and incomplete, many experts agree.

“The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an [emergency] evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame,” said Richard Falkenrath, former deputy homeland security adviser and now a fellow at the Brookings Institution. “The federal government currently lacks the ability to [rapidly] generate and broadcast specific, geographically tailored evacuation instructions” across the country, he said.

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