by Jack » Fri 11 May 2007, 08:27:11
That's the plan, isn't it? Things get bad, we get in the SUV and depart to our haven of bucolic splendor, complete with off-grid solar power array, hardwood trees, and fertile fields.
Lovely. I've put the parts I found particularly interesting in red.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') paper the organizers are writing, summarizing their recommendations, urges local governments and individuals to build underground bomb shelters, much as people did in the early days of the Cold War; encourages authorities who survive to prevent evacuation of at least some of the areas attacked for three days to avoid roadway paralysis and damage from exposure to radioactive fallout; and proposes suspending regulations on radiation exposure so that first responders would be able to act, even if that caused higher cancer rates.
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')"If one bomb goes off, there are likely to be more to follow," Carter said. "This fact, that nuclear terrorism will appear as a syndrome rather than a single episode, has major consequences."
It would, he added, require powerful government intervention to force people to do something many may resist -- staying put. Fred Ikle, a former Defense Department official in the Reagan administration who authored a book last year urging attack preparation, "Annihilation from Within," said that
the government should plan how it could restrict civil liberties and enforce a sort of martial law in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, but also have guidelines for how those liberties could be restored later. Don't think that keeping everyone penned up in a cage under martial law is the extent of what can happen.