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Preparedness Policy and Guidance
Teach Practical Family Nuclear Civil Defense Strategies and Tactics...
The disarmament movement for decades has hyped that with nukes; all will die or it will be so bad you'll wish you had. Most have bought into it, now thinking it futile, bordering on lunacy, to try to learn how to survive a nuclear blast and radioactive fallout.
Unfortunately, most govt officials have, too, as they are focused on #1- Interdiction, and #2- COG (Continuity of Govt) for when #1 fails, and have largely ignored #3 - Civil Defense training of the pubic, so they might be better prepared to save themselves from the first second of the flash of a nuke explosion.
For instance, most people now ridicule 'duck & cover', but for the vast majority, not right at 'ground zero' and already gone, the blast wave will be delayed in arriving after the flash, like lightening & thunder, anywhere from a fraction of a second up to 20 seconds, or more.
Today, without 'duck & cover' training, everyone at work, home, and your children at school, will impulsively rush to the nearest windows to see what that 'bright flash' was, just-in-time to be shredded by the glass imploding inward from that delayed blast wave. They'd never been taught that even in the open, just laying flat, reduces by eight-fold the chances of being hit by debris from that brief, 3-second, tornado strength blast.
Then, later, before the radioactive fallout can hurt them, most downwind won't know to move perpendicular away from the drift of the fallout to get out from under it before it even arrives. And, for those who can't evacuate in time, few know how quick & easy it is to throw together an expedient fallout shelter, to safely wait out the radioactive fallout as it loses 99% of its lethal intensity in the first 48 hours.
The greatest tragedy of that horrific loss of life, when nukes come to America, will be that most families had needlessly perished, out of ignorance of how easily they might have avoided becoming additional casualties, all because they erroneously thought it futile to ever try to learn how to beforehand.
The Good News About Nuclear Destruction! at www.ki4u.com/goodnews.htm dispels those deadly myths of nuclear un-survivability, empowering American families to then better survive nukes. For as long as nukes exist, these life-saving insights are essential to every families survival!
And, as a bonus, all our nations' First-Responders would be many magnitudes more effective when there are tens of thousands fewer blast & radiation casualties to later deal with.
The govt should be in the lead getting this information out to all, as it'll save many more lives than doubling the number, and funding, of First-Responders, at a fraction of the cost and time to implement!
Shane Connor
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Very good idea..
Great idea, too many people are unaware that something of this nature IS survivable providing they're not in the blast area. Thanks for the suggestion!
Most think that the bigger the bomb the less good 'duck & cover' will do those in the blast zone. Actually, though, the % is higher that more could be saved then by employing it, compared to a smaller nuke.
For instance, a big military 500 kt nuke airburst (Hiroshima was only about 15 kt) detonated at optimum height to maximize damage, will have an effective blast range radius of out to about 9 miles from ground zero (GZ) where you could get hurt or killed inside there.
The inner 2.2 mile radius from GZ would be total destruction, unlikely anybody above ground would survive the overpressure blast, thermal flash and initial radiation.
If the population were evenly distributed over that 9 mile radius (18 mile diameter) blast zone, there are over 15 times more people outside that 2.2 mile radius than are already gone inside it.
The blast wave will be arriving at that 2.2 radius mark about 8 seconds after the initial flash. Everyone beyond that has over 8 seconds to 'duck & cover' to avoid becoming additional, unnecessary, casualties, from that intense, but brief, 3 second, tornado strength blast, IF they had been trained up beforehand to do so immediately upon indication of the initial flash.
IOW, without that 'duck & cover' training, we risk having as many as 15 times more casualties and fatalities than otherwise!
All of the above, and more, is from the Nuclear Attack Environment Handbook, FEMA - August, 1990 seen here, along with other supporting references...
Of all the types of weapons terrorists or states like Iran or N. Korea might use against the US or its military - chemical, biological or radiological/nuclear, by far the most destructive is radiological/nuclear. Yet a radiological/nuclear attack is the one we are least prepared for. The US should make preparations by educating and training people abut nuclear weapon effects; sheltering and exposure control techniques.
In the last few years, it has been mentioned over and over again in the media, that the greatest fear and threat for the upper levels of our government is nuclear terror.
Yet, in every single news story, report, webpage addition, or reiteration of that same fear, absolutely nothing is said about how a single family can truly prepare themselves for this probable event (even the CFR refers to this threat as "the worst case scenario" http://www.cfr.org/publication/13097/how_likely_is_a_nuclear_terrorist_attack_on_the_united_states.html )
Starting in the 40s, US agencies started talking to citizens about preparedness, including about bomb shelters (conventional explosives). In the 50s through the very early 90s, FEMA and its predecessors, offered directly to the public various kinds of fallout shelter plans, many of which were actually tested in real nuclear detonations before the US ended testing on 23 September 1993.
The last FEMA preparedness manual to mention fallout shelter specifically was the 1991 edition of Are You Ready?
What changed in government, after that edition, so that fallout shelter plans were never again offered or mentioned in official FEMA publications?
The fallout of a nuclear detonation has always been a threat, whether it was a ground or air burst. The threat still exists with over 22,000 nuclear weapons on the planet, with who knows how many unaccounted for. ( http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html)
Not only does Shane's idea suggest nationwide discussion about this threat, but a simplified, yet practical...and TESTED...proof of concept that nuclear detonation, and nuclear fallout, are absolutely survivable, must be discussed and made absolutely clear to all citizens of the US.
If the most basic tenets of what would be needed, on that day that a blinding flash lights up nearby windows unexpectedly, were followed by Americans that actually paid attention to the concept, untold thousands, or millions, could and would survive and help their communities recover.
Why the fear, without concern for citizens, instead of ONLY COG?
Shane, thanks for starting the dialogue in this venue.
Rich Fleetwood
BTW, I'm not proposing the government expend billions for provisioned blast & fallout shelters for all, like what already awaits our top politicians, rather just a mass media, business and school based release of proven practical basic Civil Defense instruction in how to survive nuke blasts and the fallout later.
There's a lot of 'good news' to share there about how effectively that can be done with a little knowledge and even the most minimal of preparations that will help dispel panic and save many lives in a future nuclear crisis. People will be relieved as they are empowered to discover it is not futile to prepare for surviving nukes. That most can survive them, when they know what to do, will be truly 'good news' to all.
A one-hour program sponsored by DHS and/or FEMA, ideally enthusiastically endorsed by the President on down, with full-court media press, PSA's, and that one-hour program then running as a public service message continuously on a cable and sat channel. DVD's also sent to all businesses and schools. A light version should be done for young children and the business version to focus on their special needs protecting workplace employees.
IMO, if done right, and most everyone in this country got to see it and largely grasped it, we could have 80% fewer casualties if/when nukes ever got unleashed here and, as a bonus, then our First-Responders and medical resources would be many magnitudes more effective dealing with those much, much smaller remaining casualty numbers. In fact, nothing would make out First-Responders more effective, for less funds expended, than to have the public trained up to avoid becoming unnecessary additional casualties later.
Read the short to-the-point 2-page The Good News About Nuclear Destruction! at www.ki4u.com/goodnews.htm and see if this doesn't make kt's of sense to you, too.
After a nuke goes off here, if we had failed to launch this mass public Civil Defense training, the after-action reports, and in-depth studies for years, will be chock full of countless tragic examples of our fellow American families that had perished needlessly for lack of knowing what to do from that first flash second onward.
None of us here want to have to be writing or reading those reports.
Shane Connor
The Nuclear Disarmament Movement has a stranglehold on our national civil defense policy. Their reasoning is that any effort toward a prepared citizenry looks like preparation to initiate a nuclear "first strike" and thus thwarts their ban the bomb efforts. It is too late to ban the bomb! Furthermore, their efforts to make our population as vulnerable as possible simply encourage a terrorist strike. The responder community by not vigorously opposing this foolish policy position may become complicit in the deaths and casualties of multitudes of their fellow citizens.
In a tragic irony, the disarmament movement has rendered millions of American families even more vulnerable to perishing from nukes in the future.
The greatest tragedy of that horrific loss of life, when nukes come to America, will be that most families had needlessly perished, out of ignorance of how easily they might have avoided becoming additional casualties, all because they were duped that it was futile to ever try to learn how to beforehand.
The disarmament movement's sincere supporters, those just wanting a world safe from nukes, will discover those 'unintended consequences' to be 'inconvenient truths' of the worst kind.
As Phil Smith above says, the First-Responder community needs to lead in vigorously exposing and opposing this self-inflicted national vulnerability and then correcting it.
Failing to call for Civil Defense training of the public could have tens of thousands perishing needlessly, but implementing public Civil Defense now will make all First-Responders then many magnitudes more effective to have many times fewer casualties needing to be rescued and saved later.
I'm all for having more First-Responders, and they being better funded, trained and equipped, but nothing will make them more effective, quicker & cheaper, than having also trained the public to better avoid becoming needless victims in the first place.
National Civil Defense training of the public will only happen when the First-Responder community recognizes its force-multiplier value to their own mission and then collectively demands it.
I hope & pray that begins soon.
This really is fairly simple and inexpensive to prepare for. If the average family would just spend a few hours educating themselves they could go through a disaster with confidence and be able to assist their neighbors as opposed to being another panic ridden family running around scared....
I really hope this idea gets moved to the national level. Our parents knew what they were doing in the 50's and 60's...we need to remember the lessons of preparedness from them, not slip into a lazy unprepared state.
Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness report determined that "the U.S. remains unprepared to cope with the possibility of an attack on a major city by terrorists capable of acquiring and detonating an improvised nuclear device".
The study, "Regional Health and Public Health Preparedness for Nuclear Terrorism: Optimizing Survival in a Low Probability/High Consequence Disaster," says in part; "In the United States, virtually no public education has taken place about what an individual should do in the event of a nuclear detonation, although there is urgent and critical need for such education, especially for those living in potential target areas... A public education campaign that addressed these issues could save lives and reduce injury in the gray zone by empowering the public to initiate life-saving actions without the need for official advice, which may never arrive. Immediate protective actions in the first moments after a detonation are critical. Considering that it might be impossible to get emergency messages to the public after a detonation, it is sensible to equip the public now with basic information on how to best protect themselves and their family should they ever confront this type of disaster."
I was listening last week to Rudy Gulianni (SP?), former NY mayor during 9-11 attack. His main point was if you prepare for every event that you can think of, you will already be pretty well prepared for the thing that you didn't think of. NYC had preparations for floods, fires in hi-rise buildings, evacuations, hostage crisis, power failures, and several other things. Although they hadn't prepared for the type of attack that occured on 9-11, because they had these other preparations, they were able to effectively combine these plans for a response to that tragedy. Nuclear attack, in various forms (suitcase bomb, cruise missile, ICBM, sabotage of nuke power plant, etc) may have various response plans by the government, but there is no effective plan for the indeividuals, as has been pointed out by Shane. However, preparation should not stop there. There is biological warfare, there is conventional bullets and bombs warfare, there is cyber warfare and economic warfare. All of these require not only government preparations for mitigation, response, and recovery, but these also need plans that can be implemented by individual families and communities. Then, if the unexpected occurs, like an asteroid hitting the earth or the Yellowstone caldera eruption, we will be better prepared.
This is an important topic that needs to shared with the general public, and have much more attention brought to it, than currently is being done.
My late Father was a nuclear scientist and past President of the Health Physics Society. He was a staunch advocate for Civil Defense and for preparing the public to survive a nuclear event.
In this era of information....we should strive to do everything possible, to inform the public that
there are things they can do to survive a nuclear attack.
I strongly support this effort to educate people and save lives...and know that my Father would have, as well.
It would be time and money very well spent.
Thank you Shane for bringing this up and we too have been sharing nuke preparedness in our book for several years. You (and Dr Irwin Redlener @ Columbia U) have been passionately advocating for greater dissemination of this data for quite some time – again, thank you (& Rich F.) for your efforts - and we hope to help spread the word more since many agencies, nonprofits and businesses give out our book. (And schools and youth groups use it as fundraisers.)
But sadly when a majority of Americans are resistant or complacent about preparedness in general it's hard to get them to pay attention unless the data is kind of "forced" into the home where it hopefully will do some good.
Visuals are powerful – short demo videos of how to make expedient shelters at work, school or home would be cool. Demonstrating the 7/10 rule might be tough but explaining dosimeters and KFM kits might tweak curiosities. And, of course, using social networks is great a way to create a buzz. One of the main keys to prepping is getting entire communities involved – agencies, businesses, faith-based groups, nonprofits, service clubs, K-12 schools and families – so it stays in the forefront. Sept's NPM is a great way to heighten awareness but it needs to continue year-round. I'm sorry - getting off topic - but sure hope we can get the word out about all this before it's too late. j
I would like to see FEMA provide some standard designs for fallout and possibly bomb shelters. Include basement, above ground, below ground, and half buried/half covered-type shelters. Some can be design as dual-purpose, such as a root cellar, to ensure they are actually used and maintained. Families could build or contract to build these shelters on their property. Also like to see FEMA provide guidance on stocking and operating shelters.
FEMA did provide fallout shelter plans at one time, see some of the more popular one's here... www.radshelters4u.com
Hi Shane,
Yes, I have downloaded all the old CD plans for shelters, but would like to see them updated for current building codes, so that you could give your local building planning department the plans and they would be approved. Some of the old shelter designs are not good for earthquake country and may collapse. They need more reinforcement.
I agree, would like to see that, too, also most were borderline PF40's, where a little more mass would have easily doubled their shielding protection.
As our nation unilaterally disarms, and faces a terrorist nuclear threat, we should at least have an active nuclear civil defense program.
Consider what the Russians are doing:
Moscow arms against nuclear attack
12 July, 2010, 21:42
Nearly 5,000 new emergency bomb shelters will be built in Moscow by 2012 to save people in case of potential attacks.
Moscow authorities say the measure is urgent as the shelters currently available in the city can house no more that half of its population.
In the last 20 years, the area of air-raid defense has been developed little, and the existing shelters have become outdated. Moreover, they are located mostly in the city center, which makes densely populated Moscow outskirts especially vulnerable in the event of a nuclear attack.
In order to resolve the issue, the city has given architects a task to construct a typical model of an easy-to-build shelter that will be located all over the city 10 to 15 meters underneath apartment blocks, shopping centers, sport complexes and parks, as in case of attack people will need to reach the shelters within a minute.
Moscow saw its first mass building of shelters in the 1930s, after which 7,000 of them were constructed. Some of Russia's metro stations have been built very deep underground so that they could double as air raid shelters.
However, in the early 1990s, many shelters were privatized by commercial firms that used them as warehouses, parking lots, and even restaurants.
The Russians consider "...the measure is urgent as the shelters currently available in the city can house no more that half of its population."
I'm assuming these are not only fallout shelters, but that they provide some blast protection, too.
And, here in the USA, what % of our population is the govt ready to shelter today, even from just radioactive fallout?
My understanding is that there is only one county in all of America that has re-instituted their public fallout shelter program. That's Huntsville - Madison County, Alabama.
Huntsville is the home of out nations rocket scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. See a brief video of their fallout shelter program there...
And, for how to do it in your county, see their presentation here...
Be ideal if that was duplicated from coast-to-coast, but at the very minimum we need to of at least, or first, taught the public how to effectively shelter on their own via a national Civil Defense training program.
A worthy idea that has much merit. This kind of training could easily be incorporated into current Citizen Corps training, and covered in inexpensive pamphlets.
Millions of lives could be saved in a worst case scenario just with information. To see what three Physicians for Civil Defense volunteers were able to do to get hundreds of rural fire departments in Arizona informed and equipped, go to Youtube and search on roadman911. Better yet would be for every first rsponder to have a wallet size information card and a RadSticker (postage-stamp size dosimeter). Information and demo available at jplabs.com.
Since 1979 I've heard government officials talk about the great disaster plans we'll have ready in a few years, including nuclear. Let's talk about what is on the government shelf if we are hit by a terrorist nuke(s) today. The only thing that is "shovel ready" is the Nuclear War Survival Skills plan created by the U.S. Department of Energy in the 1970's. This on-the-shelf plan is designed to prepare the nation for nuclear attack in as little as 24 hours or even post-attack.
Originally the backbone of the plan, the homemakeable Kearny Fallout Meter would have been distributed by newspapers around the country. Now the internet has taken care of that as anyone can download a free PDF of the plan by Googling "Nuclear War Survival Skills."
While some officials at DHS belive the plan to be out of date, there is no other government document with a self-training plan for the unprepared that includes plans for a homemakeable fallout meter a child can build and operate.
Note that the Nuclear War Survival Skills plan is an expedient or stop-gap plan created in the expectation that a proper civil defense would be created. It never was. Nevertheless, the Nuclear War Survival Skills plan/manual besides being a stop-gap can also serve as a starting point from which proper civil defense plans can be built.
Finally, since it is impossible to train and equip for every eventuality, simply having thought about what you would do is far better than sticking your head in the sand.
The .gov should have been doing this as a permanent system - but the system has been co-opted by "those who know better", and unfortunately the programming has worked. It's an uphill struggle, but getting the word out is a critical aspect. Education (real education, not just programming by the media and "those who know better") is the real key.
Personally, I look upon the death of the classic Civil Defense system as an absolute abandonment of one of the governments primary jobs - that of maintaining the security of the citizens against outside threats.
The original system worked well, and if it had been properly funded, would still be working well. Unfortunately it was regarded as only marginally useful.
Which, to me, is fairly interesting, considering that government officials themselves still maintain shelters. Guess it's the taxpayers, as usual, that get the short end.
In any case, we need to get back to educating folks about this topic, that it's not hopeless, and that it's plenty survivable.
If we just got the building codes changed to include the protection requirement for all new construction, we'd begin the shift some thinking. Maybe we don't need to go all or nothing--just the baby steps that don't create ridicule opportunities.
@CM - yep, that'd definitely help - but a bigger way to do it is to actually push real preparedness into the public view, and make it a reasonable activity for them to do. Quit demonizing true preparedness, as so often happens.
Any forward steps are good - but again, that Civil Defense infrastructure was well established all the way from the bottom to the top. Why did we drop it? Not because it was inefficient, that's for sure.
Hard to tell about the all or nothing thing too - seems that going in small increments doesn't work any more. The only time things seem to change any more is when they happen in large chunks....but maybe that's only my perception.
It is well worth pointing out that the aftermath of an improvised nuke is not the same as global thermonuclear war, and it's important for metro areas to plan for one as a survivable event that would require response. That said, I have a tough time seeing this as a priority, and there's a big difference between a simple mass media message like duck/cover and turning that into mass mitigation that will save thousands of lives. Civil defense itself was based on assumptions that were probably not valid (e.g., that we could evacuate 80% of our metropolitan population in event of nuclear war, or that everyone would adhere to their "training."); fortunately, we never had to test it. I think anything that can provide realistic risk information to the public is a plus, especially on a topic that tends to generate anxiety, but we don't want to repeat (and rely on) the same unrealistic projections of efficacy that we did 50 years ago. Lee Clarke's "Mission Improbable" is a really good treatment of this.
I completely agree with the importance and highest priority for training the public for their protection and national survival in the event of a nuclear or radiation dispersing attack.
Since some of my most important recommendations when I was national chair of homeland security in 2001-2002 for the Health Physics Society were not effectively carried out, I still find emergency responders as well as the public completely ignorant of the methods of protection and survival that we had developed in the Federal Civil Defense Administration under the Eisenhower Administration and later.
The Department of Homeland Security must also advise State and local governments to obtain the inexpensive SIRAD family of dosimeters for responders and the public. After one of my visits with an Undersecretary of DHS, these dosimeters were tested and approved by DHS, but DHS has not prioritized their distribution to responders and the public throughout the United States with sufficient urgency. Under the billions already granted to States, the purchase of these dosimeters as an important entree into explaining radiation protection issues, as well as a necessary personal monitoring device to avoid panic, would involve only a small fraction of amounts already expended. Without such personal dosimeters, public panic would almost certainly prevent any hospital care for the injured or any access of responders to those needing rescue.
I am almost finished a book on Actions for Survival and would be glad to provide a pre-publication copy, or a copy of its important Appendix I, to any high official within the administration who can get things moving.
Allen Brodsky, Sc.D., CHP, CIH, Diplomate, American Board of Radiology
Adjunct Professor of Radiation Science, Georgetown University
Good points about big differences between global thermonuclear war and small improvised nukes.
Bottom line for both, though, is our population is currently largely ignorant of things they can do, and would need to do immediately on their own, that could make a big difference for most to avoid becoming additional, unnecessary, casualties.
Sadly, most of the public thinks when anything nuclear gets unleashed it'll be largely futile that there was anything they might have learned beforehand that could of helped save them then. That's the major source of their anxiety now and their panic later.
DHS & FEMA need to take the lead instructing the public, via national Civil Defense training, that people can indeed minimize their risk and how, specifically, to do so. Presented correctly, it'll be received as 'good news', replacing their anxiety and panic with hope, empowering them to better control their fate and that of their families.
Civil defense measures could save millions of lives and make the difference between the life and death of our society itself.
A bit long winded, so bear with me...
@Stephen Jones,
Agreed...NWSS in either paper or digital format is still the single best document created by any entity, that provides usable, understandable, and simple nuclear prepping instructions. Yes, many different versions are online in PDF, html, and other formats.
Having a hard copy when the time comes to actually need it could be the most viable alternative. Or, possibly HS-4...the 1987 version of "Preparedness Planning for Nuclear Crisis". Both are available free online...I personally scanned in the HS4 that is currently online several years ago.
@several other posters here....
Comments by others regarding updating regulations and codes, and even shelter plans based on current and updated technology, while a step in the right direction, will not resolve the crux of the problem, which is creating a simple, clear and concise set of learning tools for the majority of Americans, most of who do not understand what the heck we are even discussing here.
It could be simple set of Public Service Announcement videos, packages for community emergency preparedness agency managers to pull from and customize for their unique regional, cultural, and sociological needs, or even full coverage mailouts to every postal mailbox in the country. It could also be a hundred other methods of reaching out to the public successfully.
The Feds created a core nuclear "Survival Manual" in the Fifties that was then shared with every state, for that state to then add the information, contact lists, phone lists, target and evacution maps, and a myriad of other tools, that was actually one of the best ideas to actually see the printing press during that era.
I've seen two different state's versions of the finished manual, and have one in PDF format for anyone interested. That's pretty much what we need to do again.
Yes, it'll take a bit of money, but not billions. An important reminder here...it's OUR money. It's education, which trumps ignorance every time.
On the assumptions that other nations will consider an escalation of threats, if the US does start creating new civilian training tools for nuclear preparedness...so what? We did that for 45 years, and we're all still here.
Updating and actually doing the not-so-hard part of civilian training and education opportunities is the American way. Freedom, liberty, and all that great patriotic stuff.
After all, what we're talking about right now is getting administrators within government to focus on the public's real needs, instead of political corruption, servitude, and injustice to the citizens of this nation.
We are all already paying for so-called defense of our nation with our taxes, every single day. Yet, we've seen more terror on our soil in the last 17 years, from foreign and domestic threats, then we saw in the previous 40 years before 1993.
We've seen the lives of thousands of Americans ended prematurely, at the hands of criminals and terrorists in mass killings in the last decade, while our leaders in all areas of government keep *discussing* and *posturing* on what should be done to "protect the citizens". They missed the point.
Doesn't that in and of itself say something about where this nation's priorities truly need to be? Personally, I've done tremendous amounts of work the past 15 years, in getting tens of thousands of pages of US created nuclear preparedness materials on the web, that were and are the basis for the very subject we are discussing here. Shane is another individual who has done the research and shared his findings widely. There are dozens more like us doing the same thing. There should be tens of thousands of us.
The same things that notable icons such as Cresson Kearney researched and shared are still solutions to the specific threat that we face today. And, remember, the very specific worry that we have of a nuclear detonation, primarily fallout, has technically remained the same absolute physical manifestation of nuclear threat.
Science and American dollars have also proven that we can protect ourselves 100% from fallout, with basic understandings, time (1 to 2 weeks indoors), and tools and supplies available in every single town in America.
Given that, why is it so hard to get done, what Shane Connor has proposed here? Why are there actually people, here in this venue, voting AGAINST the very idea Shane has brought to the forefront? Why can't we make a difference, regarding this very real, and probable event, in our future?
We can. But it's going to take people like Shane, Kirk, Phillip, Janet, Dr. Orient, Daniel, Stephen, Professor Brodsky, and thousands of others like us continuing to keep the focus on getting our DHS, FEMA, and other preparedness agencies that are tasked with the safety of all Americans, to get the real ground work done.
The science is already done. The basic nuke prepping skills are already laid out in front of all of us in those manuals printed in the last 40 years. The ability to respond...well, that needs a lot of work (Katrina, anyone?).
And what about that little word that no one is mentioning? You know...defense? The part that failed on 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and other notable historic dates? With the trillions spent on the military, how come Americans are still dying on our own soil? Where is that defense we've been paying for?
When the threat arrives, it becomes personal. FEMA, DHS, and the National Guard will eventually appear whereever we are attacked, but what we're trying to create here, in my belief, is a set of individual skills for surviving that critical first 24 hours after a terror nuke.
We can do that. Absolutely. So, let's get started.
Great Idea! Ilearned most of what I know from a book distributed by the Office of Civil Defense in the 1960's.
Not sure if you're being facetious or not, but you do bring up a valid point. The largest quantities of US civil defense publications on nearly all areas of civilian preparedness were produced and printed during the Sixties.
One of the last nuclear preparedness publications from FEMA was the publication "Risks and Hazards, State by State", aka FEMA-196.
View it here...
Printed in September 1990, this publication listed nuclear target maps for every state, as well as maps for the more common natural disasters the US sees every year.
Regarding the target maps, FEMA-196 states on page 15, that "The maps used in this booklet have been adapted from U.S government planning data developed in 1988. For the most up-to-date information on whether your community is considered at risk from nuclear direct effects, check with your state of local civil defense office." Try getting answers on this topic from those sources. You can't.
These maps were based on earlier maps produced in the "Nuclear Attack Planning Base 1990" document, which was put online after a FOIA request by a friend of mine. NAPB90 resulted from yet an earlier OCD/DOD document called TR-82, "High Risk Areas", circa 1976.
View the NAPB90 document in its entirety here ( a big thank you to FEMA for presenting this for us )...
While we all know that these maps above are 20 plus years out of date, to assume that there are no current nuclear targets within the US, from foreign nations, including those of Russia, China, and all those "Axis of Evil" countries, is ludacris.
After this FEMA publication, the only other document I've come across to mention nuclear preparedness was "Are You Ready", the 1991 edition. This document including a few pages with expedient nuke prepping info, and info to contact FEMA for those free shelter plans.
The 1993 edition of this title removed *ANY* reference to nuclear preparedness, other than for 2 pages for individuals living near a nuclear power plant.
However, after the events of 9/11, FEMA did update the "Are You Ready?" manual, with H-34, produced in September 2002, a year later.
Started on page 89, and concluding on page 94, it actually mentioned things such as "What to do before/during/after a nuclear or radiological event".
In suggesting sheltering, it suggested looking for building that had the "yellow and black fallout shelter signs" on public buildings, signs that have been disappearing for years, with the shelter space now used for warehousing, storage, and anything but safe spaces for citizens.
While a gallant attempt to recover old ground, it was woefully incomplete on actual facts and plans for individuals to educate themselves and prepare their families "just in case".
H-34 assumed that the governments at federal, state, and local levels would be able to provide for citizens/victims of a rogue nuke/dirty bomb. Again, I mention "Katrina", which happened 3 years after this publication. So, this document is now outdated, and short of the information we seek to help our fellow citizens with.
But, Sean, thank you for reminiscing on this topic.
Folks, take a look at this FEMA page.
Do you see ANYTHING mentioned about nuclear terror or nuclear preparedness?
No. And THAT'S the problem.
Read the online version of H-34 here...
Read the chapter mentioned above on nuclear blast response here...
But again, note this...no mention of fallout shelter plans or usage exist on the FEMA site.
An excellent article from 2006, from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 11, Number 3, authored by Dr. Jane Orient (who has commented above).
"The apparent strategy of the U.S. federal government, in the event of the use of nuclear weapons on American soil, is to provide for continuity of government while civilians largely fend for themselves. Early in the nuclear age, the federal government funded extensive research on nuclear weapons effects and protective measures, but a national civil defense does not exist,
partly owing to opposition from some physician groups. Expedient methods could still save millions of lives at minimal cost."
This needs to be done.
The plain but startling fact is that the largest population at mortal risk from a terrorist nuclear blast is not at ground zero, but the surrounding communities ignorant of simple civil defense. This is an unconscionable failure of leadership!
A terrorist nuclear device would most likely be detonated at ground level in the heart of an "urban canyon". This has profound implications for response and civil defense. The Hiroshima weapon was detonated at 1900ft, which maximized the blast and thermal damage but minimized the radioactive fallout. The blast and thermal effect radius of a street level detonation would be measured in city blocks, not miles. The radioactive fallout from such an attack however would be enormously increased as vast quantities of radioactive debris is blown skyward. Much of the debris would fall in a few minutes within a 10 mile radius, rendering the response area highly radioactive.
Responders and citizens alike should immediately retreat to radiation safe locations. The problem is that neither group has a clue what that means. This amounts to criminal negligence on the part of our leadership. Most people think that evacuation is appropriate in such circumstances - which signs their death warrant! Communication with the affected population will be nonexistent. Responders will not even be able to approach broken buildings to search for survivors until several days after the event. Most responders have been issued oversensitive interdiction and hazmat instruments that will be useless in reporting the true radiation levels encountered. Within an hour or so the debris cloud will begin dumping fine radioactive grit and ash up to 100 miles downwind. The fallout intensity downwind of an urban surface blast will be greater than most military plume charts assume. Our focus should not be on those near ground zero doomed to sudden death, but rather on the far larger population at risk of lingering radiation casualties caused by ignorant actions in the first hours after an attack.
We must educate the general public to the real threat and to the concept of survivability. This valuable information should be made available in credible and easily accessed places and formats. The doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) is still alive and well, today. A lot of people choose to believe that by ignoring the problem of defense and assuring mutual destruction, the threat will somehow magically disappear. It's easier, they believe, to do nothing. People, who otherwise might have taken the time to make preparations, have been shamed into believing it is immoral to do so.
Many, however, have an innate will to survive and are looking for this life saving information; but, don't know how to access it. They need to have access to basic NBC shelter plans and practical post war survival information. They need to understand the concept of weapons effects, including the electro-magnetic pulse (EMP). They need to know what foods and emergency supplies to store; what they can eat and how to harvest crops that have been contaminated with fallout. They need to know how to live without electricity; how to take care of their rubbish and garbage; how to prepare food and stay warm; how to communicate with emergency radios and how to filter and purify water. These concepts need to be taught in our schools and made available in written format. They need to be available on the Internet, as well as in our libraries and government offices.
The nuclear threat is alive and well. Never have we been more vulnerable than we are today, from terrorist countries and terrorist organizations. We have no defense in America. The lack of protection and survival information is a national disgrace.
TACDA (The American Civil Defense Association) is a non-profit organization established in 1962, to teach the general public these valuable skills. In all that time, we have not even scratched the surface. Our thanks to Shane Conner for offering this opportunity to encourage the government to do the right thing.
Sharon Packer
TACDA Executive Director
Remember, the same naysayers who preached Mutual Assured Destruction also advocated population control. They weren't interested in the general public's survival. Don't surrender and accept the false view of total defeat whenever radiation is involved. My old Mazda had parts made in former ground-zero city, Hiroshima, Japan.
Mass, Distance, Time - are your family's tools for radiation mitigation. Shielding, or Evacuation, until the half-life periods drop radiation to safer levels. Short excursions for supplies will soon be possible.
If finances are a challenge, use 3M N95 dust masks in place of respirators to ptotect family members' lungs when cleaning fallout dust off of canned food stocks left outside of shelters. The food sealed inside jars and cans is NOT contaminated, and is safe to consume.
After venturing out to forage, wash any particles off of self and clothing, in a mud room around an earth-filled corner away from shelter living space.
Bill Lohmeier
Radiological Defense Officer 1985-2005
Sunday night, this #1 ranked idea, out of over 200 submitted, was 'red flagged' by someone for unknown reasons and it now is no longer listed at the main page as the most popular, or first there in the 'hot' category, where it also was prominently until then.
Nobody coming to the site now will ever see or discover it there anymore, as if it never existed, unless somebody gives them the direct link to this specific page here.
I don't know what is going on and don't want to speculate about it, I'd just like to see it promptly resolved by the moderators. I was hopeful this would have been resolved this morning, now that the Monday labor day holiday is over, and I'd of also addressed these concerns directly to them, instead of publicly here, if I could have found any contact info on the site provided to have done so.
I'm a full-time paramedic and volunteer firefighter and there is no real training for how to survive nuke blasts or fallout after wards for us, much less the public.
I think it makes a lot of sense that we'd be much more effective doing our job, responding after a nuke, if we'd been trained AND the public had also been trained-up, too, re what to do, and not do, so there would be far fewer casualties then for us to handle.
a national population that has immediate access to blast and radiation protection reduces the likelihood of an enemy attempting to wipe it out with an offensive attack because the chance of success is reduced dramatically, and any survivors will be highly motivated to eliminate the perpetrators of the attack.
promoting underground housing, malls, infrastructure would be a huge step in the right direction.
Update to my last post about this proposal being 'red flagged' and taken off main page and lists, that's now been resolved and it's back up everywhere now.
good news that issues on this post are resolved and it's back up everywhere now.
It is vitally important that Americans have information that will prevent them from becoming needless casualties. Just knowing that a bright flash signals that a blast wave is on the way, and that you need to lie down on the ground and take cover if possible, could save thousands of lives. When personal dosimeters the size of a postage stamp are available for a few dollars, there is no excuse not to have one. Why panic about possible radiation exposure when you could know the dose for sure, and if needed take measures to prevent further exposure? If first responders all had these, they could forestall massive panic.
Jane M. Orient, M.D., president, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
The idea that this type of situation in not survivable is wrong. Preparation and understanding of what to expect can go a long way towards increasing survivability for an individual or a group.
Several days ago I commented on this idea - but I don't see my comment here. It makes me wonder if my vote for this idea (and the other ideas that I voted for also) were counted - but I won't vote a second time so there won't be any thought of there having been double voting.
My comment then, and my comment now, is that as a Radiological Scientific Officer (for many years) I have always been concerned that other countries have continued to prepare by educating their citizens and providing shelters for them - whereas the US destroyed its Civil Defense program, took down the shelter signs, scrapped the stockpiles of radiation detectors, and so forth.
Surely it is not that those countries who prepare - know something that our government does not. On the other hand perhaps our government thinks itself so wise about things regarding catastrophes and disasters that it couldn't possibly be making a mistake.
Previously - I attributed why I think things have worked out the way they have to fact that the military industrial complex didn't figure out a way to make a big buck out of Civil Defense. Trillions have been spent for Destruction but nothing for actual defense. We are all sword and no shield.
So far the policy has been that the best defense is offense - but if it ever proves out otherwise - Great will be the disaster.
Quote from the report linked below:
"Taken together, our results suggest that the government should initiate an aggressive outreach program to educate citizens and the private sector about the importance of sheltering in place in a basement for at least 12 hours after a terrorist nuclear detonation."
Analyzing Evacuation Versus Shelter-in-Place Strategies After a Terrorist Nuclear Detonation
I strongly agree with Mr. connor's position. The simple matter of duck and cover training would save untold lives in the case of a (God forbid) nuclear attack. Not to mention the relief to first responders.
I have been working in health physics in the nuclear industry for some 48 years, starting at Florida State Univ, I have worked at two national labs, the DOE Pantex facility and 12 nuclear power plants. I developed a method for reducing cobalt 60 at BWR plants. I was head of the Nuclear Technology at a Texas college for 7 years. I have been RSO on 3 different licenses. So I know a bit about what I am talking about.
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crosses... 2 clamps or 1
This is a total newbie question even though I've strung hundreds of rackets. Ok, so I've had an old Klippermate forever and that's what I learned to string on. I always strung the crosses with one clamp (tension string, release clamp while tensioned, and move clamp to current string).
My Klippermate from 1992 (yeah seriously) finally gave up, so I just recently bought a Gamma Progression II 602 FC. I don't know why I waited so long to upgrade, but that's beside the point. Even with the fixed clamps, I still kept using my one clamp on the crosses method... and it seems to work just fine.
Then one day I'm watching stringing videos on youtube, and I see somebody stringing crosses with two clamps (one clamp on at all times, and alternating moving clamps as you tension the cross strings).
So now I'm wondering what pros and cons are of each method. I can see how somebody might say that you could lose tension using the 1-clamp method. But on the flip side, it seems to me the 1-clamp method would give you a more evenly-tensioned stringbed since the tension in crosses gets evened out each time you pull a cross.
Using the 1-clamp method, I like to straighten the last few crosses each time while the string is under tension (after releasing the clamp). I strung up a racket last night using the 2-clamp method, and I noticed that I couldn't do this anymore and I had to wait until I was done before straightening out the crosses.
So what say you stringing experts?
X-spert? Isn't that a has been drip under pressure? Two clamps is better. Let's experiment with your drop weight if you still have the flying clamps (or you could use you new fixed clamps.) String with two clamps and when you move a clamp what happens to the weight arm? It stays level. Now do it with one clamp. When you move the clamp the weight arm drops. Which one do you think produces the most consistent tension?
If you want to straighten the strings as you go (and that's a great idea) straighten the previous string and not the one being tensioned. The one you're move the clamp from using a two clamp method.
well, first off.....when you say "one clamp" (fixed) I assume you are using both but just one at a time??
one clamp alone will not reach both sides of the frame.
Next, you should have no problem straightening as you go, using 2 clamps (mainly try to remove the "frowning", then do a final straighten once racket is finished). I try to straighten the string as i tension as well, so it's as close to it's "final position" as possible as I reach tension (I'm on a lockout machine however).
Also, using two clamps in the event of a mistake, mis-weave etc is helpful at times.
Either way, I can't imagine there is a significant difference. Thanks for the reply.
On the other hand string starts losing tension as soon as you remove the tensioner. So you pull tension on cross string one and clamp it. Tension starts dropping. You pull tension on cross string two and clamp it while there has been a bigger drop in cross string one because the tensioner was removed for a longer time. You pull tension on cross string three and let's say you just move the clamp on cross string one to cross string three. The arm does not fall because the clamp on cross string two isolates the tension loss in the other strings.
Now let's assume you tension cross string four and release both clamps - down the arm goes because there is no isolation clamp and the tension drop in previous strings is compensated for.
Using two clamps at all times allows for a more uniform tension especially if you ever get interrupted in your process.
I took the plunge and got a Gamma Progression II Els, which also has fixed clamps, and I've gotten used to using both clamps for holding the crosses on this machine. I only used one floating clamp at a time when I'd do the crosses on my drop weight rig and the difference I've found with the two-clamp method has been substantial.
Aside from the strong 'n sturdy mounting system in the new Gamma, this method with the fixed clamps is probably producing a string bed that's the equivalent of stringing at around 4-5 lbs. tighter with the old drop weight. I'm getting the firmness in my own strings that I like when I string them at 58 lbs. now, but my old machine produced that same firmness when I'd string with it set at approximately 62 or 63 lbs.
I've kept a record of all the stringing I've done for friends, students, etc. over the years, but that was with my old machine. Now that I've got this new setup and clamping method, I'm starting an entirely new set of records. I realized that I had to do this when I did a poly hybrid for a college slugger I've coached. I used the new machine, but tensioned the strings with my old numbers. It pretty much produced a rock hard plank for her that was cleverly disguised as a tennis racquet. Lesson learned... BIG difference.
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Either. Sometimes I use one, sometimes two. The second is insurance in case the first slips.
I've used both one and two clamps and can definitely say I will utilize the two clamp method on all future jobs.
I agree with the person who pointed out this method's usefulness in cases of mistakes
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Here are most of upcoming summer show premiere dates. Times are only given for those in May. Networks are increasingly skittish about schedules so check local listings.may 25Texas Rising: (9 p.m. History Channel) Limited series on the state's fight for independence.The Island: (10 p.m. NBC) Bear Grylls-hosted survival competition show. Series premiere.American Ninja Warrior: (8 p.m. NBC) Season 2 premiere.Barmageddon: (10 p.m. truTV) Season...
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Summer TV is changing course with smart, interesting new shows
In the past if you were looking for dumb all you had to do was wait for summer television. Hot-weather programming is still filled with — as David Letterman called them — Stupid Human Tricks. Along with the usual returning shows, you will now be able to watch people become human darts or pull nasty pranks on their relatives for money. However, summer has also become the time for some interesting shows, many that might not fit any other time of the year, like...
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DVDs out Tuesday: 'Seventh Son' one of few films coming out this week
It's a very light week with the "Seventh Son" being the biggest title coming out on DVD, but even Oscar-winners Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore and dragons can't help this fantasy. The History Channel's "Sons of Liberty" is a fairly entertaining take on our Founding Fathers. Showtime's "Ray Donovan" — going into its third season — has gotten better over time, while HBO's "Hello...
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David Letterman's final 'Late Show' a true tribute to the self-deprecating, funny man
When the audience kept giving him a standing ovation Wednesday night after he walked out for his last time as host of the "Late Show," David Letterman told them, "Please be seated; I don't know what to do. That's it — stop it."He then motioned for them to sit down and joked, "See, now what happens, we don't have time for the 'giving gifts to the audience' segment."•...
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David Letterman changed late-night television with nonconformist style
When Stupid Pet Tricks debuted June 26, 1980, during the first week of "The David Letterman Show," no one could have foreseen that such a dumb stunt would signal the beginning of a cultural change in late-night television.Oddly enough, that bit was on the host's morning talk show, canceled after only four months. His humor was better suited for after dark.Tonight, Letterman is retiring after 33 years on late-night TV, a bit more than a year after his...
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'Tomorrowland's' George Clooney talks optimism for the world, down sides of technology
George Clooney feels pretty optimistic about the future and technology, although he is worried about privacy and drones over his house.We'll get to that later. First, the two-time Oscar winner is starring in "Tomorrowland," from director Brad Bird ("Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol," "The Incredibles") with a screenplay by "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof and Bird.Disney's sci-fi mystery-adventure...
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DVDs out Tuesday: Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper' a sharp biopic
The story of Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL sniper who is the subject of Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper," may divide some people, but it squarely falls in the director's world.Played by Bradley Cooper, Kyle grew up in a strict Texas home before joining the military. Much of the film is spent in Iraq, where the SEAL spent four tours of duty, accounting for 160 confirmed kills as a sniper. Eastwood does not spend time examining the morality of the Iraq war but...
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'Mad Men' series finale not what fans were expecting
With its customary sophistication and dark irony, "Mad Men" on Sunday brought one of the most acclaimed shows in television history to an uneasy conclusion — a hazy uncertain future for most of the characters, a hug and a Coca-Cola commercial.The 92nd episode of the AMC series created by Matthew Weiner also revealed the fate of Don Draper, the cool but inwardly tormented Madison Avenue advertising executive extraordinaire played with brooding presence for seven...
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TV networks' fall, midseason lineups lack vision but up the ante with many strong female leads
Judging by the trailers the television networks provided during this past week's season announcements, the new fall and midseason shows look like they will have a lot of people running around and some strong women in power, even one who can fly.The latter is a welcome change of direction and makes television the real medium for females looking for starring roles. Otherwise, the one thing you can count on from the networks these days is no real surprises in programming.


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COLCORD, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in northeast Oklahoma say a fifth-grade student was taken into custody after allegedly threatening to shoot a teacher.
Colcord schools were on lockdown for nearly an hour Thursday because of the threat. Colcord Police Chief Lenden Woodruff says no weapons or guns were found in a search of the school.
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Py2exe doesn't honor the standard distutils package_data option and files listed in it are not bundled.
Users are forced either to use the working data_files option, which is indeed honored, or copy the package_data contents in it.
These are not good solutions as package_data has a more precise meaning, being used for package specific data which is needed by the package to work, while data_files can contain everything else. Also, as other distribution formats respect the option supporting package_data would avoid having py2exe specific hacks.
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A 77-year-old woman is in serious but stable condition after being struck by a taxi downtown, officials say. Ottawa police say the woman was crossing the street in front of Parliament Hill on Saturday night when she was hit by a taxi.
Edward Jackson: Policy from the bottom upSome politicians, especially as the federal election campaign heats up, will have you believe that all public policy is created by them. It isn't. Some of the most creative solutions to the wicked
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Will the PQ's "Péladeau moment" last three years?Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com. Well, it took five months, five official debates and the surrender of three of his five adversaries (one of them before a shot had been fired, politically speaking), but, as expected, Pierre Karl Péladeau is head of the Parti Quebecois. But what now? Can the man they call PKP close up
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Canada's 'ultimate' climate history to be housed at U of AlbertaBuried deep in Canada's glaciers are clues about the country's climate and environmental history dating back tens of thousands of years.
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Sun Erupts With A CME Toward Earth And Mercury
On July 9, 2013, at 11:09 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.
Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 375 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs.
Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME's magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth's fields changing their very shape. Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora. Storms are less frequent during solar minimum, but as the sun's activity ramps up every 11 years toward solar maximum – currently expected in late 2013 – strong storms occur more frequently.
The CME may also pass by the Messenger and Juno spacecraft and their mission operators have been notified. If warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from the solar material.
In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength have usually been mild.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Marijuana users who don t want to smoke in their homes can head to Frankie s.
The owner of Frankie s Sports Bar and Grill in Olympia is letting customers smoke pot on the second floor of his business.
Frank Schnarrs thinks it will help bring new revenue to his business.
Same as the state, said Schnarrs.
Frankie s already allows cigarette smoking upstairs.
Schnarrs battled the state to allow customers, who pay an annual fee, access to a closed-in area more than 25 feet from the entrances to his downstairs bar.
Members of the Friends of Frankie room pay $10 a year. Several were seen smoking marijuana Friday afternoon.
I love Washington! said Stephen Goodrum after taking a drag off his pipe.
Free at last, he said when asked about the changes to the law.
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From the Editor - Software as a Public Trust
As I write this, the Linux Users Group of Iraq is forming an organization called the Iraqi Open Source Organization (IOSO) to help get the new Iraqi government on the path of open-source software and open standards. They're joining a worldwide movement to put open source into government IT that's strong enough that proprietary software vendors have founded a lobbying group called the "Initiative for Software Choice" (ISC) to oppose it. The ISC doesn't merely oppose open-source code; it also tracks and opposes measures that would simply require specs to be openly published for interoperability.
Telling a government it should accept proprietary software licenses is like telling it that it needs to visit a shady rent-to-own store for furniture instead of using competitive bidding. Governments are big enough to get a better deal. And "software choice" for a government purchasing department could mean software lock-in for citizens. Until late last year, the US Federal Communications Commission's Web-based Universal Licensing System, mandatory for radio licensees, required a non-Linux OS.
On page 58, Jim Beard shows how open standards can make a government process work. Find out how courts, lawyers and organizations are keeping the new flood of paperless communication together with new standards anyone can use.
Our Senior Editor Doc Searls spent early 2004 in the storm of the presidential primaries, with special attention to Howard Dean frenzy. Our contributor Tony Steidler-Dennison went to work for the Wesley Clark campaign. Neither Dean nor Clark got very far, but Doc learned some valuable lessons that might help you in your next political campaign. Find out how you can join the political process on page 52.
Remember the little USB lamp on the cover of the April 2004 issue? Greg Kroah-Hartman told me that he got more responses to his article on a driver for it than to anything else he's written. Congratulations, new kernel hackers. Now, if you'd rather write user-space programs instead, Greg explains how to control a USB device that way on page 40. Now there's no excuse not to support whatever USB device follows you home from the electronics store. Be sure to let us know how it goes.
Dave Phillips is back with another software roundup—this time covering soundfile editors on page 84. And, if you're ready to have your mind expanded with a giant leap in communications design, flip to page 76 and get the facts on software radio from Eric Blossom.
Finally, as you might be able to tell from the cover, we're proud to bring you the latest from Douglas Maxwell on a new simulation for training firefighters (page 48). The project may be kind of esoteric, but it depends on the same Linux and free software we all use every day. If you're writing, documenting or testing free software, you're helping vital, even lifesaving projects without even knowing it. Stay free, and enjoy the issue.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that polio infections had more than doubled in the four countries—Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan—where it was endemic and had spread to 10 additional countries. Global progress in containing avian (H5N1) flu continued, although it was still pandemic in poultry in parts of Asia, and 36 human cases and 28 deaths were reported in Indonesia in 2008. In October the UN and the World Bank warned that a global avian flu pandemic was still a threat.
More than 3.3 billion people were considered at risk of contracting malaria, which was endemic in 109 countries; more than a million deaths annually, primarily of children under the age of five, were due to malaria. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced a $2.75 billion initiative of new funding over the next two years, with 90% of the funds to go to low-income countries. More than half would be spent on fighting malaria, with 38% and 11% devoted to AIDS and tuberculosis programs, respectively. In November the Global Fund froze its aid to Zimbabwe after discovering that the country's central bank had stolen £4.5 million (about $7.3 million) that had been intended to train 50,000 people and purchase drugs for a national antimalaria campaign.
UNAIDS decided not to publish a new "AIDS Epidemic Update" in 2008. Nonetheless, it reported that in 2008 the global AIDS pandemic had stabilized in terms of the percentage of people living with AIDS, even though the overall number continued to increase as a result of new infections and increased life expectancy resulting from broader availability of antiretroviral therapy. In 2007 an estimated 33 million people worldwide were HIV infected. Two-thirds of these individuals lived in sub-Saharan Africa, which also accounted for more than three-fourths of all AIDS deaths and nearly 90% of all children living with HIV. Globally, the number of children under the age of 15 living with HIV had increased since 2001, but the rate of new infections among children had declined, with an estimated 370,000 new infections in 2007. On a positive note, the AIDS epidemics in most sub-Saharan African countries had stabilized or were in decline. In October the new South African minister of health publicly pronounced that HIV causes AIDS and pledged that her country would now, after years of failed policies, do everything needed to rectify the situation and deal effectively with the pandemic.
A UN Climate Change Conference was held in Poznan, Pol., during Dec. 1–12, 2008. The meeting, which involved a ministerial-level session on a shared vision for long-term cooperative action, represented another step in the negotiations toward strengthening international action on climate change—the so-called Bali Road Map process. While agreement on most major issues remained elusive, progress was made in several technical areas, including adaptation, finance, technology, deforestation and forest degradation emission reduction, and disaster management. Conferees agreed to move into full negotiating mode in 2009, with four major international conferences planned for the year. The aim was to conclude a final agreement at the Copenhagen meeting in December 2009 for a new treaty on climate change that would replace the Kyoto Protocol, which was due to expire in 2012.
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The secretary-general continued the restructuring initiative of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) that he began in 2007. The reform initiative included the establishment of a Department of Field Support, an Office of the Rule of Law and Security Institutions, and Integrated Operational Teams. The DPKO finalized a number of strategic doctrine documents, including the "capstone" doctrine of the "United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Principles and Guidelines."


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