Surviving a Nuclear Attack on Washington, D.C.

National Journal ^ | June 24th 2005 | By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

[Joya]

I agree. I wonder where folks can get Potssium Iodide tablets?

[Joya]

The people I love most on planet earth live within 20 miles of DC. If something happens, _I_ will care about _them_.

[Theophilus]

All those politicians dead..... Why would our enemies do us such a favor?

With enemies like that...
...who needs friends?

Drop the big one now!

[Joya]

bumping this puppy to the top again.

[Joya]

BTTT.

October 11 is just over two months away.

http://www.newwineministry.net

[Quix]

HERE’S THE ATS thread link re the YOUTUBE AUDIO:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread488442/pg1

[Joya]

Post 291, BTTT,

Surviving a Nuclear Attack [Anywhere]

Everyone’s first reaction is wrong because the problem is not, in fact, the nuclear blast. If at this point you’re still alive and uninjured — and after a Hiroshima-sized explosion at ground level, 99 percent of the people in the D.C. area

[or anywhere else for that matter]

are — then your real problem is the radioactive dust that the blast threw into the air. According to the estimates in National Planning Scenario No. 1, an explosion that kills 15,000 people outright could eventually expose 200,000 people to lethal doses of radiation if they stay exposed and unprotected in the fallout path for 24 hours. Sitting downwind in gridlock, with your vehicle’s windshield shattered, goes a long way toward giving you a lethal dose. All sorts of simple alternatives — moving away from downwind, seeking proper shelter, even taking a shower — go a long way toward saving you.

Fallout is simply radioactive dust, launched miles into the air in a mushroom cloud and then carried on the wind. Much of it is alpha particles, whose radiation cannot penetrate bare skin, or beta particles, which cannot penetrate layers of clothing. Both are most dangerous if inhaled — or if they settle on food that is eaten unwashed. More deadly are the gamma rays, whose radiation can go through walls. But even gammas cannot hurt you from cloud height. The danger starts when the dust settles to earth.

The ideal is to avoid the fallout in the first place. In apocalyptic gridlock, you cannot drive very far. But you may not have to. Normal winds blow the cloud into a long but narrow plume, just a few miles across. In typical Washington-area weather, Virginia, Montgomery County in Maryland, and most of the District itself are not in the fallout path at all. People in the path could conceivably walk out of the fallout zone in the 10 or 15 minutes before the dust begins to fall — if they know which way to go.

But, of course, you cannot count on perfectly typical weather. The wind might shift; the breeze you feel at ground level may be blowing crosswise to the radioactive clouds five miles up; a still day might cause the fallout to seep outward slowly in all directions; sudden rain or snow could wash the dust out of the sky, heavily dousing everything beneath the storm but sparing areas farther out.

If you do not want to trust in weather and traffic, the alternative is what the experts call “sheltering in place.” You want to be in a building, as solid as possible to block the gamma rays, as airtight as possible to keep out radioactive dust. You need to turn off air conditioning, close vents, seal the seams around windows and doorways. If you wondered what former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge was talking about, this is what you need the duct tape for. Abandon rooms with windows broken by the blast.
...

FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO

NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE [NTI]

http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2005_6_24.html#A0F258F9

http://www.nti.org/index.html

REFERENCE LINK:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429926/posts

[ExSoldier]

Thanks very much, I'd lost track of this article and have been searching for it for quite some time!

[Joya]

Hope you are doing well.

There’s good info here. I used the FR “bookmark” feature so it shows up on my freeper page as one of my “links”, so if all else fails, I can find it that way.

I clicked onto the nuclear threat initiative (NTI) link I posted yesterday, and that site’s up and running and that link still works.

I hope people wake up and learn what they need to know and do what they need to do before it all hits the great whirling blades.

Trusting Jesus, being known by Him, and knowing Him, are the best long-term preps anybody can make.

FReegards,

[Joya]

Thanks to your advice, I got Dean Ing’s “Pulling Through”, read it, and liked it. Recently, I read

“One Second After”

by Wm. Forstchen. Very inspiring as a “survival” book, it’s fiction, but it makes ya think.

http://tinyurl.com/amazon-com-link

[Joya]

October 11 will be here soon bump.

[Joya]

Post 291 synopsis, BTTT.

{Less than five weeks till Oct. 11.}

[Centurion2000]

WASHINGTON — What if we fail to prevent an attack?

DC and gov is screwed. I'll be fine.

[Joya]

Post 319, “sheltering in place” BTTT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZIRMWzlUfQ

Radio host says nuke bomb set to go off in Washington, DC, Oct. 11, 2009.

[Jackknife]

A must read.

[OB1kNOb]

With all posturing aside, I truly worry that this will be a scene we will see in reality in the near future. I hope I am wrong.

[ExSoldier]

DC and gov is screwed. I'll be fine.

Hell, why would the terrorists want to nuke DC? OHHHHH BABY is one of their own! He's a friend in the seat of power trying like mad to restrain Israel to give Iran time to wipe it out.

Naaaaaw if these guys really want to strike TERROR (or good old fashioned WWI "Pearl Harbor" style RAGE --aka the sleeping giant -- again) they'll go someplace in the middle of the country right smack in the heart of the RED STATES and first pull off a Beslan style attack on an elementary school before the show stopping nuke on a RED STATE capital or some serious infrastructure juncture like a bridge across the Mississippi or a power grid control node or something. You still feel that safe?

For example, I know that the best place in the country for a good old fashioned CHEMICAL attack is right here in my home town of Miami FL, especially in the spring and summer months. Gentle, warm breezes from a constant direction and the humidity would help the persistency factor on a nerve agent like Soman or VX especially. Why is Miami a target for them? Besides being the commerce gateway to latin America we have two of the largest (in the top three) populations of folks they really HATE: Jews and Gays. But being school trained in NBC warfare, I'm not terribly worried but that is a factor of training and not any other confidence.

[Joya]

Post 319, “sheltering in place” BTTT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZIRMWzlUfQ

Radio host says nuke bomb set to go off in Washington, DC, Oct. 11, 2009.

[Eye of Unk]

The best way to survive a nuclear attack where our current mis-guided leaders are occupied is to stay the hell away from it!
If its going to happen its going to happen, no war has ever been won based solely upon defensive strategy and no offensive tactics.

[ExSoldier]

no war has ever been won based solely upon defensive strategy and no offensive tactics.

Exactly correct. Notable examples include the American War Between the States and Vietnam.