I have a pack of those potassium iodide pills so I’m good. They even protect me from a direct H-bomb hit I think.
But the rest of you are screwed.
SMCT
031-503-1018 (SL1) - React to Nuclear Hazard/Attack
Conditions: You are in a tactical situation or an area where nuclear
weapons have been or may have been used and
are given load-bearing equipment (LBE), a
piece of cloth or similar item, a brush or a
broom, shielding material, Field Manual (FM) 3-3-1,
and one of the following situations to
respond to:
You see a brilliant flash of light.
Standards:
React to a nuclear hazard or attack without
becoming a casualty of a nuclear attack with
or without warning.
Identify radiological contamination
markers with 100 percent accuracy, and
notify the supervisor.
Start the steps to decontaminate
yourself within 1 minute of finding
radiological contamination.
Decontaminate your individual
equipment after you completely decontaminate
yourself.
Performance
Steps
1. React to a
nuclear attack without warning.
a.
Close your eyes
immediately.
b.
Drop to the ground in a
prone, head-on position.
Note.
If you are in the hatch of an
armored vehicle, immediately drop down
inside the vehicle.
More at link
https://www.armystudyguide.com/content/SMCT_CTT_Tasks/Skill_Level_1/0315031018-sl1-react-to-n.shtml
The next narrative: Trump is making the world unsafe for your children.
One does not prepare for horrendous catastrophe. One finds ways to live through it, or not.
Dirty bombs come in next, more a weapon of fear than actual deaths. And damn easy to make to cause a heck of a lot of fear.
These are all in the terrorists’ play books, have been used by both individual cells and nation states, and with our borders so porous to fuel the cheap labor express (as well as the war on drugs - hard to have a war without something to fight over...) it'd be dang easy to import whatever can't be bought at the local salvage yard or chemical warehouse.
Oh, yes, of course there's more elaborate plans; we know because we've caught some of them already. People checking out dams and power plants, checking out infrastructure lines that form the backbones of the internet and communications, server farms - heck, even national currency repositories.
But odds are it'll be some cheap stolen van bought on Facebook that’ll deliver a mass casualty event to a heavily populated urban area (and even more likely two or more at the same time.)
The nuclear attack option is great for Hollywood and strategic planning groups. You can even pick likely locations for attack and do as we've done, set up radiation monitors to hopefully detect a bomb before the attack.
But it is also the least likely form, as so much of it requires specialized equipment and knowledge. And while a ‘Broken Arrow’ type incident is possible, security around everyone’s nuclear weapons makes it improbable.
But how hard would it be to get a van with mustard gas down Colorado Blvd while hundreds of thousands gather overnight before the Rose Parade? Or to deliver sarin to the mass of lines waiting to get into the Super Bowl?
Civil defense means that everything else has failed. Our border security, our intelligence services, even our police forces - all have to utterly fail before CD comes into play. FEMA’s known about the risks; if you actually review the material on FEMA’s site about protecting your home during an incident, it isn't about protecting against nuclear radiation, but from dirty bombs and gas delivery systems.
And truth be told, even the most aware person will gain little by having intimate knowledge of all these procedures. The greatest damage will be done in the first few minutes and be very binary, either you were severely injured or killed, or you made it out alive.
If we're to invest in anything, it isn't pamphlets about emergency preparedness, it is in identifying those who intend us harm and getting that knowledge to authorities who will act on it.
Find a school desk and crawl under it.
You’ll be *just fine*.
Haven’t seen any of this stuff since Reagan. What happened?
Stop Drop and Roll, you’ll be fine-
We spent $50 billion on foreign aid in 2016. That’d go a long way toward building an adequate national shelter system.
America first!
There wouldn’t be many Democrats after a nuclear exchange.
The thinking back then was that in a single or limited nuclear attack, civilian causulties could be reduced by 80% to 90% if everyone could be put in shelters. Sure, the shelters won’t help really close to Ground Zero, but that area is relatively small and the much larger surrounding area is where people could survive.
As to whether it’s worth surviving - for a small scale attack, probably. But a full-out exchange with Russia or China, forget it...nothing to live for, in my opinion.
“Make sure you have a battery operated radio in order to receive those messages”
When we lost power in Hurricane Sandy I busted this out and would turn it on every couple of hours; all it did was tell us how other people had it worse...
Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
“Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man”
A shotgun fired and away I ran
In an age of possible nuclear instability, with so many rogue and dictatorial countries
now armed with nuclear bombs and missles, are we, as a country prepared. I think NOT.
This is where "rugged individualism" and independent thought may lead to survival.
The threat has always been around us,
but even now, we are being encouraged by our FED.Govt. to prepare for life's uncertainties.
History:
From the 1950's, movies such as "the famous Duck and Cover drill with Bert the Turtle, which portrayed students saving themselves from a nuclear attack by hiding underneath their school desks. Today, these films are seen as ill-informed..." "During the early 1950s, the FCDA (Federal Civil Defense Administration) also encouraged Americans to begin building at-home nuclear fallout shelters. Each shelter was supposed to have at least two weeks of supplies, the recommended amount of time for staying in the shelter after an attack."
Current Advice/Response :
According to Dr. Redlener, “ Brooke Buddemeier at Livermore National Labs in California has done a great deal of research on this subject [nuclear preparedness and survival].(Emphasis mine)
He suggests that if a single-weapon detonation occurred in New York City,
some 200,000 or more lives could be saved, if people knew how to protect themselves.
That means knowing how and when to find adequate shelter
and to determine when it’s safe to leave the shelter.”
Our Parents and grandparents had prepping on their minds as a lifestyle
at that time , it was called " Common Sense" !!
Address those issues of your own personal concern, with intelligence, before the fact,
rather than re-active and ineffective emotion and panic .
Review many of the posts for further information and advice.