The CDC Wants to Get People Ready for a Nuclear Detonation

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering a teaching session later this month that's tied to a timely topic of late: nuclear war.

The Jan. 16 event, which the CDC has titled "Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation," comes at a time when continued tensions between the U.S. and North Korea over the Hermit Kingdom's nuclear pursuits are running particularly hot.

------------------- Federal, state and local agencies would lead immediate responses to nuclear activity, the CDC says. Yet Stat News reports the session is meant to target public health professionals like doctors, nurses, pharmacists and even veterinarians, among other people. "Despite the fear surrounding [a nuclear] event, planning and preparation can lessen deaths and illness," the CDC says on its webpage announcing the session. "For instance, most people don't realize that sheltering in place for at least 24 hours is crucial to saving lives and reducing exposure to radiation."

This article is just a way of going after someone, not reality.

When I was with the Air Force and later the pentagon, I used to oversee exercises involving decon from the start time of the contamination till safe. Whether it was an accident like a simple broken arrow caused by a cracked device, to a full blown attack, is a far separated need.

A decon station requires a lot of space, cleaning water, storage for food, water and living capacity, and then separation to a clean area for close living for quite a while depending on the size of the incident as even the wind is your enemy.

Direct exposure to gama is a write off. You can jerk 200 rads in a second and you are going to die. Alpha radiation can be combated but it takes a central area and a lot of down time and medication.

If it is a full blown attack, everything up there will be ruined for years. And coming out to a nuclear winter is not real appealing either.

The writers of the article are not dealing with reality, just playing politics.

rwood

When the dems get control of everything? It was during Clinton’s watch that the nuclear capacity went crazy in NK. And the Clinton administration aided it by sending over supercomputers to NK for the purpose of supposedly assisting in their agricultural needs through the Department of Transportation. Below is a timeline that is reasonably correct starting from 1956 into last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_North_Korean_nuclear_program

You’l notice the transfer of those computers is not in there. It was accomplished starting in 1993 till end 1994. And the whole timeline is based upon lies from NK, Russia, and also the US identified by what actually happened at the time and what the press told us.

rwood

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