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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 08 2018, @05:12AM (1 child)
Ohkay, Google Maps doesn't want to work for me, so I looked at it. Seems that my hardware doesn't support the newest version of the web-based Google maps, and I downloaded an old version, and installed it. We can drive a submarine into the northeast portion of Korea Bay, target Punggye-ri with a missile, and the apparent track of the missile will cross North Korea on an east by northeast heading, which will extend out over Peter the Great Gulf, and then thinly slice the coast in Russia. To be more specific, that extended track seems to endanger a few towns, Veselyy Yar, and Rakushka, Nord Ost, Timofeevka, Olga, Margaritovo, Moryak-Rybolov, Milogradovo, Valentin, Preobrazheniye, Kiyevka, none of which appear to be more than villages. Zooming out to get a better perspective, three larger towns remain visible Vladivostock, Nakhodka, and Artem. Those villages and towns, along with tens of thousands of square miles of forest, and barren land that doesn't even support forest.
I'm pretty confident that the Russians wouldn't mistake this firing mission for an attack on their homeland. It wouldn't even begin to make sense for the US to attack Russia from this angle.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday January 08 2018, @11:00AM
One city there should make you take caution, Vladivostok is the home to the russian pacific fleet, basically think their version of pearl harbour. It also is their main east coast harbour.