Posted on 07/12/2022 7:05:20 AM PDT by bitt
On Monday, the city of New York launched a new public service announcement (PSA) that provides guidelines about what residents should do in the event of a nuclear attack.
Unfortunately, New Yorkers who watch the PSA will likely be severely ill-prepared should a nuclear weapon detonate in their vicinity, as the video provides little in the way of specifics or useful information. Instead, the short clip instructs citizens to follow a rudimentary 3 step plan that leaves them completely reliant on the powers that be to come to the rescue.
According to the PSA, New Yorkers should 1) “Get inside” 2) “Stay inside” and 3) “Stay tuned” – or, as the narrator clarifies, “follow media” – in the event of a nuclear attack. After walking through the steps, the narrator hammers home the last point by commanding that the audience “don’t go outside until officials say it’s safe” to do so.
The video does not address what to do if one requires medical attention or food.
Sounds awfully similar to another step-by-step process that has been pushed recently – wasn’t get inside, stay inside, and don’t come out until the experts deem you can the basis of Covid lockdowns?
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. However, this time we are talking about a nuclear attack – something much more deadly than the fear-porn peddling Covid cultists could ever hope for with the virus.
But, instead of preparing the public for the horrific scenario, the lack of relevant information in the NYC PSA aims to create dependent masses who are reliant on the experts. And, it’s at a time when we are knee-deep in a proxy war with a country that possesses over 4,000 nuclear warheads.
It’s no coincidence this type of PSA is being released with what’s going on in Europe and the Pacific – whether it be to stoke fears or because of a legitimate, burgeoning threat. Nevertheless, the likelihood of a nuclear attack hitting NYC is currently slim to none, even according to the NYC Emergency Management Department, which put the chances of a strike at “very low.”
But, according to NYC’s Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, the threat of a nuclear strike is “imminent.”
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IMO, the BIGGEST damage they could do is to target where Pelosi, Schumer, Murkowski, Cheney, Schiff, et al AND the Bidens, Obamas and Clintons have their money. :0)
We are in a far, far worse position now under Biden and the Democrats and the war mongering MIC-bribed RINOs and Democrat representatives than we ever were back when I was there...
They were the only ones I could remember.... I was more concentrated on dual route missile warning circuits, frankly.
I was a 30770 at the time... The fastest circuits then were DSTE around 300 baud....much of everything was still analog.
Surviving "officials" will be too busy evacuating their own families to (perceived) safety to bother with their jobs.
EMP hardening is good news for the civilian population.
That raises the ante for the Russians to target direct hits on military installations since EMP will not disable them.
Make sure you are current on your Covid boosters now—don’t want to have to miss them after a nuclear attack....
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Us too. Roughly a third of the way between NYC and Philadelphia; Naval Ammunition Depot Earle (now Naval Weapons Station Earle, I think) about 15 miles NNE, Joint Base Dix-Mcguire-Lakehurst about 15 miles SW. Not close enough to go quickly, though.
You expect a WARNING?
You expect a WARNING?
If it's like COVID, there will be a warning every couple of weeks.
Lol—the notion that the authorities would warn civilians of an incoming nuke is amusing—the chaos that would cause in a heavily populated area would be mind-boggling.
That is also one of the flaws of all the “plans”—imho they would not warn even mayors or police chiefs or congress-critters for fear of leaks and mass panic.
I doesn’t matter that the military equipment is protected against EMP. The civilian infrastructure isn’t. From https://www.redcom.com/emp-protection/
Scenarios after the event of an EMP attack:
Communications are down everywhere.
No broadcast radio or TV, no cable, no cellphones, very limited telephone service
Contact with EMS, fire departments, and police are cut off
State and local governments cannot run their operations
Satellites around the EMP event will cease to function
No power across the U.S.
Power stations knocked out
Grid transformers destroyed. They are about $1m each, are custom built, and take 18-months to make
All factories cease to operate.
Standby generators at critical facilities are destroyed. Even if not destroyed, they must be fed fuel and oil
Homeowners cannot run heating appliances to withstand winter temperatures
Gas, natural gas, and diesel supplies can’t be pumped through pipelines without electricity
Plants cannot pump water or purify it
Sewage treatment plants and pumping stations stop working
Travel is drastically impeded.
Aircraft who survive the EMP can’t fly due to fuel shortages
Fuel stations across the country lose power, therefore lose the ability to pump gas
Diesel trucks that haul food, supplies, and everyday items would cease to run
Modern cars are affected by the strong EMP pulse
Quickly lose access to everyday necessities like food and medical care.
Food does not get to stores
The US typically has only three-days to a week’s worth of food stock – stores depend on “just in time” deliveries
Hospitals lose power and ability to keep patients alive
Medications stop being produced
Access to money obstructed.
Bank networks are down, and ATMs stop working
Cash is the only way to pay, and most don’t carry a years’ worth of cash
Good post—and folks forget that in normal disasters people outside the region can come in and help with generators, food, water, blankets, trailers etc etc etc.
In a widespread nuclear event you are really on your own.
The NYC PSA is bizarre.
All that is true.
I was replying to your comment on losing command and control, which is a government/defense responsibility..
That’s hardened, and a few civilian things were, but not much.
So, it that case, your right, everyday people are going to be up shit’es creek, sort to speak.
Not being mentioned, here, of course, is the quality of the Russian nukes.
They have more than us, but most are in storage and not mated to an active missile, SLBM or bomb. The numbers ready to launch on first strike are much less than the 6500+ they have. That also applies to our 5900+.
The question people have, is how much of the almost constant recurring maintenance has been done on them. It is very expensive. Since we know there is graft in the Russian high command, we must assume so for their nuclear forces. The vast majority of these numbers are devices inherited from the Soviet forces.
Furthermore, since nuclear has been very much on the back burner these past couple of decades, money diverted from this expensive task will not seem as traitorous as say, buying cheap, Chinese truck tires and letting them rot on the vehicle or real working ammo. But we know that has happened.
I can only speak to my knowledge of US military. I know in SAC (which is no longer a thing) missile maintenance was constant and inspectors were ALWAYS over your shoulder. I had a good friend, a B-52 cruise missile technician, who accidently dropped one off of a wing pylon and got fired. It wasn’t his fault, as he was working on a faulty release switch. The supervisors should have taken the ALCMs off first. But he still was resigned out of the nuke program and made a computer operator!
It’s a tough job. I’m sure the Navy has similar sop’s.
I think your issue is legit for land based nukes, but the Russian subs presumably have tighter protocols and better personnel.
The subs would be the main issue for the US East Coast (and presumably West Coast) targets.
Duck and cover was, and is important.
If the Japanese had been trained to duck and cover it would have saved many and reduced injuries and severity of horrible injuries and burns and blindness.
Good point...
A tit for tat strike will hurt both sides. Stupid to do so, but the everyday Americans and Russian LEADERS will be hurt the most.
They, not the population centers, are the targets.
And when underground bunkers and giant command centers are built for the bosses, they make them grand. All the radio traffic, comms, vehicles back and forth, command aircraft landing at off the way places, dirt piles and construction equipment you can see from satellite give those type of places away. You can even “tell” when they’re occupied, as all the extra security is put in place, and ELINT gives much of that away...
After the Castro attempted hits, we made assassination illegal... Put putting a nuke at a tunnel entrance isn’t assassination. And of course, we did kill the Iranian Salamiman...
Most youngsters are obese and wouldn’t fit under their desks.
“1) “Get inside” 2) “Stay inside” and 3) “Stay tuned” “
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I just spent the last half-hour with a Sharpie on my “Covid-19 Response Plan” pamphlet changing ‘Covid-19’ to ‘Nuclear Attack’.
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