New study released regarding nuclear urban shelter

[CharlesHarris]

When I worked in public safety in the Washington, DC Operational Region, our nuke response plan modelled those areas where people could shelter with a probable protection factor to survive the initial blast and radiation, and those building areas were geo-coded and tagged for search, and other areas having inadequate protection factors were bypassed, because survivors would succumb shortly to lethal radiation exposure.

Post 9/11 this was part of the response plan. Outside the severe damage radius where most survivors would not receive lethal exposure, civilian volunteer groups, such as Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) were trained to do the rescue work in their own neighborhoods. I was a trainer for CERT.

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In the Washington, DC area post 9/11 over 10,000 municipal employees and Department of Defense Civilian employees completed the FEMA CERT course and were equipped to provide light fire fighting, search and rescue, logistics and communications.to support emergency response to terrorism of natural disasters.