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Originally Posted by hoosierdaddy
When did the Vice-President say that? Not a very comforting second in command huh? And who are the "many people" who have also said this? If there IS going to be a nuclear attack, what are you and the rest of us supposed to do about it? You think you're going to survive it?
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Here are some links quotes and links regarding some of what has been said about nukes. After reading as many different things and experts saying hey it is going to happen it is a matter when not if, I have a tendency to take notice. Actual quotes from President Bush and Dick Cheney were a while back and this is more to date.
The way I feel about it is I just hope we are not were the major strike occurs or close by and if it does happen it is a good thing to have extra water, food flashlights and other things. I know that homeland security has some stuff in the phone books for survival stuff, one of the websites also has some stuff that was in one of these articles. But if people think the government is prepared to help forget it. Even the way that Northridge Earthquake compared to the way Katrina was handled surprised me.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=45539
Chertoff warns
of nuclear terror
Homeland Security secretary sees WMD threat as major concern
Posted: August 1, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Issuing yet the latest warning of the threat of nuclear terrorism in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said there are far worse security problems facing the country than bombings of mass-transit systems.
In comments during a visit to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California this week, Chertoff said the foremost concern for the nation's security now is the threat of a larger chemical, biological or nuclear attack.
Chertoff joins the growing list of public officials – including President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Chertoff's predecessor at Homeland Security, Tom Ridge – who have strongly hinted that nuclear terrorism has moved center stage as the No. 1 security threat facing the U.S.
Last month WND and its sister publication, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, reported increasing evidence suggests al-Qaida not only has nuclear weapons in its arsenal, but has smuggled them into the U.S. along with thousands of sleeper operatives.
9/11 panel to issue report critical of federal security response
Monday, December 5, 2005; Posted: 10:41 a.m. EST (15:41 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/04/911...ion/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former chairman and vice-chairman of the 9/11 commission warned Sunday that the nation is ill-prepared for another terrorist attack.
The bipartisan panel plans to issue a report Monday assessing the federal government's response to the recommendations it made last year.
The group was created by Congress in 2002 to investigate aspects of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. It released its final report with a slew of recommendations in a nearly 570-page book in July 2004. (Full story)
Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman of the committee, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that enacting the changes is "not a priority for the government right now.
"A lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.
"What we're concerned about now is that these recommendations -- four years, more than four years after 9/11, are still not being done. People are not paying attention to them."
Lee Hamilton, the committee's Democratic vice-chairman, predicted another attack will occur -- "It's not a question of if" -- and said the nation is not "as well-prepared as we should be."
Added Kean, "God help us if we have another attack and we haven't done some of these things."
The Bush administration did carry out one of the panel's central recommendations for overhauling the as at 9/11" because of better integrated intelligence efforts. (Full story)
But Kean and Hamilton said many of the commission's most important recommendations for strengthening U.S. security have been given short shrift.
U.S. Called Unprepared For Nuclear Terrorism
Experts Critical of Evacuation Plans
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 3, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050201454.html
When asked during the campaign debates to name the gravest danger facing the United States, President Bush and challenger Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) gave the same answer: a nuclear device in the hands of terrorists.
But more than 3 1/2 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. government has failed to adequately prepare first responders and the public for a nuclear strike, according to emergency preparedness and nuclear experts and federal reports.
Although hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved by rapidly evacuating people downwind of a radiation cloud, officials have trained only small numbers of first responders to prepare for such an event, according to public health specialists and government documents. And the information given to the public is flawed and incomplete, many experts agree.
"The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an [emergency] evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame," said Richard Falkenrath, former deputy homeland security adviser and now a fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The federal government currently lacks the ability to [rapidly] generate and broadcast specific, geographically tailored evacuation instructions" across the country, he said.
Security experts consider a terrorist nuclear strike highly unlikely because of the difficulty in obtaining fissionable material and constructing a bomb. But it is a conceivable scenario, especially in light of the lax security at many former Soviet nuclear facilities and the knowledge of atomic scientists in such places as Pakistan.
Two closely held government reports obtained by The Washington Post -- one by the White House's Homeland Security Council, the other by the Energy Department -- describe in chilling detail the effects of a nuclear detonation, using the scenario of a strike on Washington. They make clear the need for split-second execution by top officials of the Department of Homeland Security if downwind communities dozens of miles away are to be saved -- a level of performance that some experts say is well beyond officials' ability now.
U.S. officials say they are only in the first stages of planning ways to communicate with endangered downwind communities, via radio, television or cell phones.
Members of the public who seek information from Homeland Security's Web site, Ready.gov, may not be getting the best advice, experts said.
Take, for example, a Ready.gov graphic showing that someone a city block from a nuclear blast could save his or her life by walking around the corner. The text reads, "Consider if you can get out of the area." Nuclear specialists say that advice is unhelpful because such a blast can destroy everything within a radius of as much as three-quarters of a mile.
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