New study released regarding nuclear urban shelter

[Leigh]

Hi all.
Please follow this link below to look at the latest study for shelter in a "nuke" attack http://www.news-republic.com/Web/Article...d=17758399

[CharlesHarris]

Kirk Paradise was a classmate of mine at Virginia Tech.

He was plans coordinator for the Huntsville-Madison County, Alabama, Office of Emergency Management.
Huntsville is the home of the Redstone Arsenal, a missile rework and storage facility.

http://www.physiciansforcivildefense.org/huntsville.php
http://www.ddponline.org/08-powerpoint/08-paradise.pdf
http://www.ki4u.com/nuclearsurvival/list.htm

[Mortblanc]

Huntsville is also where most of NASA's true "brainpower" is now located. Majority of their computer programing and analysis functions.

Those guys know what is going to happen 20 years before we even wonder about it!

[CharlesHarris]

If a nuke should hit your city, here is how to pick locations where you might survive until rescue, here's a link if you are interested. A few questions: Are you going to survive the initial blast? Is the best location near you going to let you in?
Do you have sufficient supplies to survive until rescue especially if you share with the unprepared? How long will rescue take?
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-su...ast-2014-1

[Mortblanc]

Question # 1.

How are you "rescued" from a nuke explosion?

And who is going to do the rescuing?

The civil defense network and shelter system never was much and has now been totally dismantled.

[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.