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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @04:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the hoped-we-were-past-all-this dept.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is holding a "public health grand round" at its Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The topic is "Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation":

The CDC is holding a session January 16 to discuss personal safety measures and the training of response teams "on a federal, state, and local level to prepare for nuclear detonation."

The meeting, part of the agency's monthly Public Health Grand Rounds, will include presentations like "Preparing for the Unthinkable" and "Roadmap to Radiation Preparedness," and it will be held at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta. "Grand rounds" are a type of meeting or symposium in which members of a public health community come together to discuss topics of interest or public importance.

This isn't the first time in recent months that official entities have informed the public about the consequences of a possible nuclear strike. In August, amid escalating nuclear rhetoric from North Korea, Guam's Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense released a two-page fact sheet about what to do in the case of a nuclear event. And in December, Hawaii started monthly testing of a nuclear warning siren system -- the first such tests since the end of the Cold War.

It had been planned in April and has nothing at all to do with any particular statements or tweets.

Also at Time.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:11PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:11PM (#619283)

    Imagine a brave new future world run like Mexico or Venezuela.

    Three points about your scenario:
    1. It's likely the southern hemisphere is in trouble due to nuclear winter and radiation all over the place.
    2. The dominant power in Latin America is Brazil, not Mexico or Venezuela - they have far more people than Mexico and Venezuela, and are economically a lot stronger.
    3. Regardless of your opinion of Latin American governments, they weren't the ones that in your scenario managed to blow up half the world over what amounts to a global dick-measuring contest. So compared to that, I'd say we'd be better off with them in charge.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @03:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @03:45AM (#619389)

    Storms seldom cross the equator. The equator is pretty dead regarding wind. It's effectively a barrier. Even the ocean currents mostly don't cross the equator. This isolates the southern hemisphere from radiation that is spewed all over the northern hemisphere.

    Nuclear winter is nothing compared to what a large volcano can do. In any case, it's a fine reason to burn more coal. Flipping that around, our issue with carbon dioxide emissions suggests we ought to set off some nukes.

    Lots of nuclear contaminated places are "uninhabitable" only because we are fussy. Living in Chernobyl or Fukushima is unlikely to cause your death. Lots of people do way worse -- they even smoke tobacco and drink ethanol! We'd be fine.

    Now that I think of it, a nuclear war would preferentially get rid of childish city folk. That is a plus. There would then be very little resistance to making America great.