The Worst-Case Scenario

CBS News, 60 Minutes ^ | 01.29.06

[6SJ7]

I am so depressed I am going out to get ice cream.

Probably more efficacious than most anti-radiation treatments and at least it's tasty. If there is a nuke attack, the diet is off and I break out my own personal quart of Rocky Road.

[10mm]

We have the means to completely annihilate our enemies, but lack the will to do so.

The enemy has the will to annihilate us, but lacks the means.

It is a race to see who gets what first.

[The Duke]

The 9/11 Commission considers such an attack the No. 1 threat today, not because it’s the most likely disaster scenario, but because it would be the most devastating.

I suspect there are things these terrorists could do that would be comparatively destructive to a nuke (and much less costly). The powers that be need to be using their imaginations.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Unless I've large chunks
of hair falling from my head,
not a chance in hell.

At that point I'll think
I'm already a dead man,
So it won't matter.

This far in the woods
there are few worthy targets
I have naught to fear.

[Coleus]

Maybe I'm an idiot here, but why does the GOVERNMENT need to purchase said drug? >>

because they said they would (and after the taxpayers, who bought stock, and this company spent $100 million developing the drug the US Govt. decided to buy only 100,000 doses where there are 300 million living in the USA. I wonder how the govt. will decide which 100,000 people are worthy enough to get the drug.

Then why does the GOVERNMENT buy influenza vaccines and distribute them?

Remember it was the very idiotic, inept and ill-prepared United States GOVERNMENT who actually suggested we buy duct tape to protect ourselves from anthrax and other weapons of mass destruction, LOL.

[bayourant]

What? Can you explain to me how nuking Saudi Arabi and have fallout all over parts the middle east is justifyed if we get attacked. I dont get it. We are not dealing with the Russans here. These people envision bringing on Armaganddon. They would be pleased to have a nuclear exchange for instance with Pakstain Nuclear weapons which would s happen after that Govt fell after we nuked Mecca. Whats a vital response for them The Vatican?

[JohnBovenmyer]

If "Red Star Rogue" is correct The Worst-Case Scenario, a nuclear attack on the US, already happened. On March 7, 1968 a highly placed, but not ruling, renegade clique within the USSR attempted to nuke Pearl Harbor and frame Mao for it. And we thus know what a Democrat President would do in that case. Hide that it ever happened. If the book's reading of what's known is correct we have the foresight of a Republican President to thank for the attack's failure. Thank you, Ike, for leaking fail safe technology in the 50s. It kept 50 stars on the flag. The subsequent Republican President, Nixon, used this as diplomatic leverage against the USSR in general and told Breznev enough so he could pull the clique's teeth.

If the book is correct than now is the time for the secret to become known. So we realize that small groups of powerful nut cases are capable and willing to nuke us. If Yuri Andropov, as the head of the KGB, and his mentor Suslov, the top Soviet ideologue, did it; we can't discount that the head of Iran and their top Mullahs would do it. They might not fail.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Hundreds of thousand of people could die in a nuclear attack, but hundreds of thousands of others could be saved.

Lets concentrate on stopping said nuclear bomb detonating in the first place, and not setting the ground for post nuclear lawyer trust funds.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Does Ed Bradley hold Hollis-Eden stock?

[JohnBovenmyer]

its one of the few things the Feds. should actually be doing.

True, but the taxpayers should insist that cost overruns be kept no worse than the norm for national security expenditures... There should be big volume discounts. Not only would we need a lot for an attack, but the stuff won't have an infinite shelf life, so we'll be restocking this (or a new and improved version) periodically. Lawsuits should be prohibited if the government stockpile is actually used, thus holding down the drug company's risk and costs. Now if they want to further develop a commercial product for radiation damage of other sorts, e.g. late side effects of cancer therapy, then the normal rules apply for that separately.

[Lauretij2]

As others are flaming you, I might as well join. Stop being blind and stupid.

[spikeytx86]

Sounds Reasonable. But don't hold your breath, The feds negotiate like a 9 year old in a candy store.

[Dazedcat]

"What? Can you explain to me how nuking Saudi Arabi and have fallout all over parts the middle east is justifyed if we get attacked. I dont get it."

Well I said this originally out of frustration and anger. No, in the broad scope of things it's not a very good idea at all.

It would though, make me feel a whole lot better.

[10mm]

"Jim, do you want this to be an anti-Islamic hate site? End this now. It reflects poorly on conservatives. It makes us look like we're all members of the KKK."

Don't go sniveling to JimRob. Islam, since it's inception, has been attempting to conquer the world, and it has not stopped to this day. - The "Thousand Year Ummah"

My lessons come from History. Where do yours come from?

[Coleus]

Does Ed Bradley hold Hollis-Eden stock? >>>

he probably does. Just like the many politicians who are pushing embryonic stem cell use, I bet they own pharmaceutical stocks too.

[Doc Savage]

Absolute rubbish. Platelets and neutrophils. The same cells physicians worry about following a stem cell transplant or haematopioetic cell transplant. Several drugs (cytokines) have been available for years to stimulate neutrophil and platelet production. A totally bogus story.

Depending upon the degree of radiation you are exposed to there may be absolutely nothing that can be done for you, or, indeed, you may be able to survive with treatment if you only receive a slight degree of radiation.

Want to treat radiation sickness the most effective way??????????????????????????? Turn Iran and Syria into glass NOW!

[Search4Truth]

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes well are ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival that the success of liberty" - John Kennedy.

Nothing is ever off the table in war.

[Search4Truth]

Stupid spell checker.

[WIladyconservative]

We have the means to completely annihilate our enemies, but lack the will to do so.

The enemy has the will to annihilate us, but lacks the means.

It is a race to see who gets what first.

Excellent point - I wish everyone saw it as clearly as you do.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Yes, but what if it causes impotence or baldness? Who will fight the lawyers? Only half kidding.