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MFS - The Other News. US cities are not medically prepared for a nuclear attack: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. BAS). HT: Crof. The abstract. United States is not prepared to deal with an attack by a terrorist. It should get. prepared, because the risk is real even if the probability is low, and. New York City. The initial blast would kill between.

Another 1. 00,0. 00–2. Current planning efforts are not sufficient to manage the. What we’re up against. An attack on a nuclear power plant or a catastrophic. Chernobyl in 1. 98. Fukushima. in 2. 01.

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With that. in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Department. Energy require that states with nuclear power plants practice. Zones requiring specific. Fortunately, the track record of the US nuclear power industry has been reassuring in terms of planning for accidents.

US authorities, in part because it is seen as relatively likely on. A dirty bomb is a rather simple. Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah building in 1. Gaining access to radioactive.

Medical facilities. Certain isotopes, while difficult to come by, have a long. This would create a “hot zone” too dangerous to enter for any. Additionally. radioactive particles dispersed in the air can be carried downwind in a. Planning for the aftermath. Most cities have some.

The majority of contamination can be handled by removing. Once victims are removed from the. Terrorists could acquire or build and detonate an improvised nuclear. A. 1. 0- kt bomb would release the same amount of energy as 1. TNT. The kind of improvised nuclear device we are most likely to see is a. HEU. through a tube at another mass of HEU, causing fission and the release.

A 1. 0- kt. improvised nuclear device would destroy or significantly damage. The strength of the explosion could. North. Korea tested in 2. In a nuclear attack, the bomb will be dropped from an. Unlike a bomb carried into a city on a. I make the assumption – based on.

North Korea would carry a warhead in the 1. These scenarios. are both more likely than a multimegaton nuclear warhead being launched. United States. those who must think about planning for the aftermath, one of the.

HEU detonates, it releases an enormous amount. The blast releases 5. There is little chance for human survival within a quarter. Thirty- five percent of.

Fires will be so numerous and radiation. Initial (or. “prompt”) radiation accounts for 5 percent of the energy. The remaining. 1. New York City’s Times Square.

They will be incinerated so thoroughly that their ashes will be. Others. will be crushed by falling buildings, struck by flying debris, or thrown. Many will be. exposed to various levels of radiation that will cause suffering or.

The loss of city government, fire and. The city will. become a ghost town. As a result of the plume carrying radioactive. People. will leave their homes in search of safe havens. With no radios to give. Many of these evacuees will die from radiation.

They won’t. know where to go or where to receive medical care. Following a. hurricane, people can reach shelters, medical teams, and sources of food.

Following a nuclear attack. Boston, I received a pamphlet. A reporter following this effort to prepare citizens.

The reporter was startled to find townspeople. Where would city evacuees. From. 2. 00. 9 to 2. I was doing for the Defence Academy. United Kingdom, I conducted an end- to- end assessment of the. It was similar to one I.

Mayor’s Office of Emergency. Management in New York City, looking at the aftermath of biological and. No city or country visited during this assessment was. Even taking. into account just the medical needs of a large city following a nuclear. Using. New York City as a model, it’s anticipated that several hundred. With the loss of hospitals and 3. Makeshift treatment centers or casualty collection.

Ethical. and moral issues will arise as the overwhelmed staff, short on supplies. The. profound psychological impact on these healthcare workers and first. Their task is essential, though: The.

A nuclear blast causes an electromagnetic pulse that knocks out. Without the ability to. Assuming medical staff can get.

After triage, some will. Hospitals will have to not only care for the. Local, state, and federal governments will have. They will have to have plans for alternate standards of care, so that.

This last issue, the focus of numerous studies and reports. And planners should remember that. Sending an adult to end- of- life care may pull on the. Beyond. the difficult front lines of triage, survivors of a nuclear explosion. Acute. radiation syndrome, in particular, results from exposure to radiation. It may be the only. Acute radiation syndrome occurs when a significant portion of the body.

The nature of acute radiation syndrome depends on the dose. At. lower doses, the only effect may be on the gastrointestinal system and. At higher doses, bone marrow will stop producing. Larger doses also. At the highest levels of. Some of the most difficult patients to manage.

Many. victims will be in the “hot zone,” where responders can’t enter and. Victims’ families, though. Even where identifiable remains.

At some point in recovering bodies, a decision. The United States. Where do we stand? FEMA, the US government. FEMA takes what emergency planners call an “all hazards” approach. This lack of planning to deal specifically with a nuclear. It’s far easier to scale back a.

While serving as Commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency. Services for New York State, I asked each of the 5. Scenarios varied from. FEMA has lagged, the US Department of Health and Human Services has.

It has medical response teams that are staffed and equipped to mobilize. In the. aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2. Long Island, just east of.

New York City. They provided invaluable aid in evacuating Manhattan. Department of Health and Human Services has also committed significant. The Strategic National Stockpile, composed of 1. In it are supplies to treat burn injuries, as well as. Should. respirators be needed, the Strategic National Stockpile can provide. Many units from the stockpile will be needed to. Cities. far from the nuclear blast are also a potential resource.

The federal. government is sure to ask for help from far afield as soon as demand for. Governors and. mayors may be reluctant to release personnel, though, either for.

I believe most elected officials will rise to the. But no number of. I conducted in 2.

Privately, many politicians used to worry that if they discussed. In. the last seven years, that concern has changed dramatically at the.