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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-04-15-nuclear-attack_N.htm?csp=1
1 posted on 04/15/2007 6:36:29 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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Did you know that one nuclear bomb could ruin your whole day?


2 posted on 04/15/2007 6:37:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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NSS
3 posted on 04/15/2007 6:38:50 PM PDT by dighton
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Link
4 posted on 04/15/2007 6:38:52 PM PDT by kinoxi
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that’s

f-u-n-n-y!

only a university-educated usa today editor could come up with that.


5 posted on 04/15/2007 6:40:09 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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So ... they watched “The Day After” or “Jericho” to come to that conclusion? How much grant money got burned up in that quest for the bleedin’ obvious?


6 posted on 04/15/2007 6:40:46 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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No “link” showed up in your post —

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2007-04-15-nuclear-attack_N.htm?csp=1


8 posted on 04/15/2007 6:43:15 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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I also hear that the hospitals might be vaporized, incinerated, burnt, scorched, seared, leveled, blasted, blown to pieces, and poisoned by radiation by a nuclear bomb, but I’m going out on a limb on those and will have to await university study confirmation.


10 posted on 04/15/2007 6:44:25 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad)
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> Hospitals would be 'overloaded' by nuclear attack on U.S.

Gee, YA THINK?!?

11 posted on 04/15/2007 6:44:29 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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And, in other news, gravity still exerts a strong attraction.


12 posted on 04/15/2007 6:45:20 PM PDT by lightman (If false accusation was rare it wouldn't be in the Ten Commandments!)
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The headline was enough, so I didn’t read it - reading it would be an admission that a nuclear attack would be worse than an asteroid blast. And I’m standing on my profound belief that an asteroid blast would be far worst.


14 posted on 04/15/2007 6:46:28 PM PDT by Dale 1
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They obviously never heard of Combat Triage.


15 posted on 04/15/2007 6:46:56 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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“Knowledge Is Good.” - Emil Faber


16 posted on 04/15/2007 6:47:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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Where do I apply for this kind of study money?


18 posted on 04/15/2007 6:48:40 PM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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The article is pretty good, lots of good stats

Too bad the title is inane

21 posted on 04/15/2007 6:57:44 PM PDT by JZoback (Grandma Pelosi will give milk and cookies to Osama and he will be a good boy !!!)
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Ya know? (lengthy pause for effect)

Maybe we should spend a Trillion Dollars of public funds so build enough hospitals so that we could handle the millions of injured people that might need medical care should some very unlikely disaster occur.

I mean you can never be TOO careful.

The fact that these hospitals would stand empty and unused should have no bearing on whether we build them.

And the fact that there would not be enough train medical staff to man these hospitals should also be of no consequence.

Also the fact that within 10 years the technology in these hospitals would be so out of date to the point of uselessness should not bother anybody.

We should start construction right away.

End Sarcastic Rant.

23 posted on 04/15/2007 7:01:48 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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Who cares about hospitals! It better not mess up my vacation or retirement!


24 posted on 04/15/2007 7:04:29 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Actually, the problem wouldn’t be the nuke.

It would be the stampede of hypochondriacs who think the stress headache they have is a symptom of radiation poisoning.

As they flood the hospitals, the actual victims are going to be dying while the doctors and nurses try to triage the dead from the not quite dead yet.

26 posted on 04/15/2007 7:19:06 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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Can I sign up to do some of these “studies”?

I wonder how much this one cost and how long it took to figure out the OBVIOUS?


27 posted on 04/15/2007 7:21:04 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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thats not possible

the dims promised me free healtcare bonanza

plus i am still sure Cuban doctors are on stand by

it will all be happy


28 posted on 04/15/2007 7:22:56 PM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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USA Today has never been aimed at a very highbrow demographic.


30 posted on 04/15/2007 7:28:09 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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