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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @09:29PM
Nukes are maintained. We are constantly rebuilding them. On a regular schedule, each warhead gets shipped back to a national laboratory to be disassembled and have old components replaced.
Accuracy is very high now. Granted, it would be higher without democrat obstruction, but it is pretty good. This is why we are no longer much into 20 megaton warheads.
Killing millions of civilians is how war works. We haven't really had a war since Japan surrendered. Some folks need killing. Many lives, all around the world, are a negative value for us.