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Great news: Obama administration giving out advice on how to survive a nuclear attack

For those of you who read the New York Times on Friday, it was right there. Right on the front page. The Obama administration is giving you advice how to survive a nuclear attack.

Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe.

The advice is based on recent scientific analyses showing that a nuclear attack is much more survivable if you immediately shield yourself from the lethal radiation that follows a blast, a simple tactic seen as saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Even staying in a car, the studies show, would reduce casualties by more than 50 percent; hunkering down in a basement would be better by far.

But a problem for the Obama administration is how to spread the word without seeming alarmist about a subject that few politicians care to consider, let alone discuss. So officials are proceeding gingerly in a campaign to educate the public.

“We have to get past the mental block that says it’s too terrible to think about,” W. Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said in an interview. “We have to be ready to deal with it” and help people learn how to “best protect themselves.”

Officials say they are moving aggressively to conduct drills, prepare communication guides and raise awareness among emergency planners of how to educate the public.

Read the whole thing.

Here's the key folks. The fact that the Obama administration is releasing this kind of information and is trying to disseminate it means that they think a nuclear attack on the United States is possible. And given that they plan to do nothing about Iran or about the Iranian proxy missiles in Venezuela, I suppose such an attack is possible. It's kind of like Israel with all the useless short-range anti-missile systems - instead of taking the offensive, the US is pretending it can sit back, wait to be attacked and fend off the attack.

What could go wrong?

Labels: Iranian missiles, Iron Dome, surviving a nuclear attack, Venezuela

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:43 PM