NTI: Global Security Newswire - U.S. Cities Prepare for Nuclear Disaster
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20091215_5896.php
While the detonation of a nuclear weapon in the United States is considered highly unlikely, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities are preparing for such a disaster by assessing old bomb shelters and preparing emergency response plans, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Monday
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......The U.S. Homeland Security Council has called on local and state governments to put in place the necessary preparations to respond to the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a large city.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking into how to include a nuclear attack scenario in a public awareness campaign, Homeland Security Department spokesman Matthew Chandler said.
U.S. defense expert Brian Kennedy said there is worry among experts over the likelihood that Iran could gain the capability to deploy nuclear missiles on ships and use them against the United States.
Kennedy said he is worried that a nuclear missile could explode at a high-altitude and produce an electromagnetic pulse with the potential of taking out the nation's power network. This could strand a large portion of the U.S. population without access to food, water and communications (Troy Anderson, Los Angeles Daily News, Dec. 13).
U.S. Cities Prepare For Nuclear Disaster
Global Security Newswire |
December 16, 2009
Posted on 12/16/2009 7:39:56 AM PST by Strategy
While the detonation of a nuclear weapon in the United States is considered highly unlikely, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities are preparing for such a disaster by assessing old bomb shelters and preparing emergency response plans, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Monday.....
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WSJ: Mother of All Blackouts
Wall Street Journal | 8/12/2004 |
Editorial Posted on 08/12/2004
12:37:18 PM PDT by vajimbo
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Mother of All Blackouts August 12, 2004
Saturday marks the anniversary of the blackout that shut down much of the Northeast a year ago. Anyone who lived through that power outage remembers the annoyance of life without lights, air conditioning, TVs, computers and all the other electronic equipment on which a modern society depends. Now, imagine a blackout that lasts for months, or years.
That was the job of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the U.S. from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.....