Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack

[local 12 proud]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...=003&sc=646

"There was a clear consensus that a nuclear bomb detonated in the United States or a friendly country would be an earth-shaking event, and we need to know how we will respond beforehand," said Ikle. "I wish we had started earlier, because this kind of planning can make an important difference."

But others said the meeting made it clear that the results of any attack would be so devastating and the turmoil so difficult to control, if not impossible, that the lesson should have been that the U.S. government needs to place a far greater emphasis on prevention.

"Your cities would empty and people would completely lose confidence in the ability of the government to protect them," said Steve Fetter, dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. "You'd have nothing that resembles our current social order. I'm not sure any preparation can be sufficient to deal with that."

Fetter added, "We have to hold current policymakers more responsible" for taking all out measures to prevent a nuclear attack.

 

[local 12 proud]

http://www.cbc.ca/nuclearjihad/video.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...5/13/wpak13.xml

It was the bloodiest escalation of the two-month long saga which began when the president attempted to sack the country's chief justice in March. The ensuing challenge by lawyers and opposition parties to Gen Musharraf's eight-year rule has left the president - a key Western ally in the "war on terror" - desperately clinging to power.

 

[Garfield1966]

I always liked the duck and cover personally.

 

[local 12 proud]

I always liked the duck and cover personally.

Yea we know...

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-ostrich.html

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Yea we know...

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-ostrich.html

During courtship, the black-and-white male uses his dramatic coloring to attract the light brown female. He sinks slowly to the ground, almost like he’s bowing, and begins to wave and shake the feathers of first one wing and then the other while moving his tail up and down. He then gets up and moves toward the female, holding his wings out and stamping as he goes to impress her. If she approves, she will mate with him.

If all fails, the Male goes home, "Empty Winged".