Posted on 08/12/2015 4:58:22 AM PDT by rickmichaels
As we observe the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it may seem like the threat from nuclear weapons has receded.
But it hasn't; the threat is actually increasing steadily.
This is difficult to face for many people, and this denial also means that we are not very well-prepared for nuclear and radiological events.
What if a nuclear device were detonated in an urban area today?
As in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the majority of deaths would happen soon after the detonation, and the local health care response capability would be largely eradicated.
Models show that such an event in an urban area in particular will not only destroy the existing public health protections but will, most likely, make it extremely difficult to respond, recover and rehabilitate them.
With medical facilities decimated after a detonation, treating the injured will be a tremendous challenge.
Very few medical personnel today have the skills or knowledge to treat the kind and the quantity of injuries a nuclear blast can cause.
Health care workers would have little to no familiarity with the treatment of radiation victims.
Thermal burns would require enormous resources to treat even a single patient, and a large number of patients with these injuries will overwhelm any existing medical system.
There would also be a massive number of laceration injuries from the breakage of virtually all glass in a wide area.
Currently, it has not been worked out how medical systems in affected areas are supposed to cope with the overwhelming numbers of patients from an urban nuclear detonation.
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If only we were able to spend more than half a trillion dollars a year on defense.
The sheep would all wet themselves, the wolves would have a much easier time taking advantage of a bad situation, and the remaining sheep dogs would be doing their best to restore sanity...next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCme_K6MYLY
The Day After Disaster
A 90 minute discussion of a hypothetical nuclear attack on Washington DC
More money should be spent educating Americans what they could do to care for themselves, as in an attacked area the government wont be able to help most people for some period of time - average citizens are not their priority in the hours and days - perhaps weeks- after an attack
People who live in survivable zones need to know how and why to go to shelter, how they can set up such a shelter, and have adequate provisions to stay in shelter for some period of time (at least days, maybe weeks, water and sanitation supplies at a minimum))
To facilitate this communities need to set up rudimentary communication systems to receive information and disseminate it
Related story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3323663/posts
Tell me which urban area -- and I'll tell you how horrified you should be.
There is a documentary called Trinity and Beyond. Get it on Netflix.
FAR WORSE would be a very high air burst over the Midwest with EMP effects—not to give anybody ideas, or anything.
(Iran has been practicing this very thing for a few years, BTW.)
A single nuclear weapon utilized as an EMP will cause far more damage.
Let me guess — it would suck.
Well, with Obama and his foreign policy, we will never have to worry about this scenario...
What are they practicing with? Are they exploding dummy warheads at 30 km over head?
Download them while you can:
Special Operations Medical Handbook:
http://www.nh-tems.com/documents/Manuals/SOF_Medical_Handbook.pdf
Ship Captain’s Medical Guide: (in PDF!)
http://www.dieselduck.info/machine/06%20safety/Ship%20Captain’s%20Medical%20Guide%20-%2022nd%20Ed.pdf
http://www.crosstree.info/Documents/CaptGuide.pdf
I would suggest some FEMA manuals, but we recently have been told by our wise progressive overlords that anyone who shows too much interest in being prepared must be a dangerous person or maybe even a terrorist.
Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/areyouready_full.pdf
Depending upon the wind and the circumstances of detonation, more people might be killed from fallout than from the blast itself. It is important to have the means to know about the level of ambient radiation. The following page has some good reference info and the product is used by law enforcement:
http://www.nukalert.com/index_a.html
One of my favorite films.
We need a scientist to tell us that getting nuked would ruin our day?
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