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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 Monday January 08 2018, @05:16AM (1 child)
I guess I like Spock's take on it...about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, or the one.
In this case, it sure looks like he's the one.
From what I see from my chair, everyone over there is afraid of him.
Same as what happens over here when a gang takes over a neighborhood.
I am not pissed at the people of North Korea. They are just trying to "have a life". Just like everyone else.
But their leader is putting them up to all sorts of no-good.
It appears there is only one way to strip him of authority. Very similar to the way we strip gang leaders of authority.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 08 2018, @08:16AM
Spot on! The people of North Korea are the same people that you find in South Korea. They are a lot of cousins, second cousins, third - etc, etc. One bunch are our friends, the other bunch are our enemies, because a self appointed demi-god says so. The government could remain a communist government, and we could "get along" with them. It's just Little Kim who makes things so very difficult. Well - Kim and some relatively small cadre of officials. At most, we would only have to remove a couple thousand people to turn their government upside down. The actual number is probably a lot closer to fifty people. Once it were demonstrated that we could reach their top officials any time we want, and start working down the chain of command, we would soon find a new Dear Leader who was more reasonable. I don't mean likable or friendly, just more reasonable.