{"id":37040,"date":"2018-08-24T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37040"},"modified":"2018-08-24T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T00:55:06","slug":"thermonuclear-detonations-over-the-60-largest-us-cities-fema-heightens-nuclear-response-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37040","title":{"rendered":"“Thermonuclear Detonations Over The 60 Largest US Cities” – FEMA Heightens Nuclear Response Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Thermonuclear Detonations Over The 60 Largest US Cities” – FEMA Heightens Nuclear Response Readiness<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The Federal government’s national disaster response and planning organization, FEMA, has significantly updated its nuclear disaster plans\u00a0according to a new bombshell report in\u00a0Buzzfeed<\/em>, which\u00a0describes the new plans as “truly terrifying”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report is based on an exclusive interview with an unnamed US Federal Emergency Management official. Notably, the official indicated the new FEMA plan includes preparedness for a scenario involving\u00a0“large nuclear detonations over the 60 largest US cities”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The plan was discussed on Thursday at a two day National Academies of Sciences\u00a0\u00a0workshop<\/a>\u00a0for public health and emergency response officials held on Capitol Hill, and included emergency readiness planning for large scale thermonuclear blasts by state actors, as opposed to a prior emphasis on terror organizations deploying tactical nuclear devices.<\/p>\n

FEMA\u2019s head of its\u00a0chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear branch, Luis Garcia, told BuzzFeed News<\/em><\/a>, “We are looking at 100 kiloton to 1,000 kiloton detonations”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To put this in perspective the agency’s current\u00a0protocol for disaster relief\u00a0planners only considers the emergency impact of 1 to 10 kiloton blasts, similar to the power of WWII era atomic bombs.<\/p>\n

But according to FEMA conference participants things changed when last year<\/a> North Korea tested a surprisingly powerful thermonuclear bomb that had a reported blast estimate size of 250 kilotons, capable wiping out a whole US city<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One conference keynote speaker and expert,\u00a0Cham Dallas, told the conference,\u00a0\u201cThe North Koreans have really changed the calculus,\u201d<\/strong> and concluded,\u00a0\u201cWe really have to look at thermonuclear now.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Buzzfeed’s report of the FEMA session<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dallas presented \u201cspeculative\u201d analyses of a nuclear detonations in several cities \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Thermonuclear Detonations Over The 60 Largest US Cities” – FEMA Heightens Nuclear Response Readiness The Federal government’s national disaster response and planning organization, FEMA, has significantly updated its nuclear disaster plans\u00a0according to a new bombshell report in\u00a0Buzzfeed, which\u00a0describes the new plans as “truly terrifying”. The report is based on an exclusive interview with an unnamed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[307,21407,21408,4318],"class_list":["post-37040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-fema","tag-thermonuclear-explosion","tag-us-federal-emergency-management","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37041,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37040\/revisions\/37041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}