U.S. Rethinks Strategy for the Unthinkable

U.S. Rethinks Strategy for the Unthinkable -- New York Times

Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe.

The advice is based on recent scientific analyses showing that a nuclear attack is much more survivable if you immediately shield yourself from the lethal radiation that follows a blast, a simple tactic seen as saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Even staying in a car, the studies show, would reduce casualties by more than 50 percent; hunkering down in a basement would be better by far.

Read more ....http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/science/16terror.html?ref=us

The Next Nuclear Arms Race Is Between China And India

The Next Nuclear Arms Race -- Wall Street Journal

China and India are raising the stakes by modernizing and deploying more forces along their shared border.

India and Pakistan are the two countries most likely to engage in nuclear war, or so goes the common wisdom. Yet if recent events are any indication, the world's most vigorous nuclear competition may well erupt between Asia's two giants: India and China.

Both countries already house significant and growing arsenals. China is estimated to have approximately 450 warheads; India, roughly 100. Though intensifying as of late, Sino-Indian nuclear competition has a long history: India's pursuit of a weapons program in the 1960s was triggered in part by China's initial nuclear tests, and the two have eyed one another's arsenals with mounting concern ever since. The competition intensified in 2007, when China began to upgrade missile facilities near Tibet, placing targets in northern India within range of its forces.

Read more .... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384204575509163717438530.html

Is The U.S. Vulnerable To A Nuclear Attack?

http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-us-vulnerable-to-nuclear-attack.html

New Report: U.S. Vulnerable to a Nuclear Attack -- American Power

See, "Report by the Joint Defense Science Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force." And the related discussion thread here:http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/NWE-National-Enterprise.pdf

    The United States is now woefully unprepared for any kind of nuclear attack ...

    and the Obama administration has taken steps to further reduce the nation's nuclear arsenal.

    The problem and the cause ...

Report: U.S. Vulnerable to a Nuclear Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9uG7bsIeo0&feature=player_embedded