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.
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
We need a scientist to tell us that getting nuked would ruin our day?