Government working up plan to prevent chaos in wake of bombing of major city

[seemslikeadream]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/11/TERROR.TMP


Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack

As concerns grow that terrorists might attack a major American city with a nuclear bomb, a high-level group of government and military officials has been quietly preparing an emergency survival program that would include the building of bomb shelters, steps to prevent panicked evacuations and the possible suspension of some civil liberties.

Many experts say the likelihood of al Qaeda or some other terrorist group producing a working nuclear weapon with illicitly obtained weapons-grade fuel is not large, but such a strike would be far more lethal, frightening and disruptive than the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Not only could the numbers killed and wounded be far higher, but the explosion could, experts say, ignite widespread fires, shut down most transportation, halt much economic activity and cause a possible disintegration of government order.

The efforts to prepare a detailed blueprint for survival took a step forward last month when senior government and military officials and other experts, organized by a joint Stanford-Harvard program called the Preventive Defense Project, met behind closed doors in Washington for a day-long workshop.

The session, called "The Day After," was premised on the idea that efforts focusing on preventing such a strike were no longer enough, and that the prospect of a collapse of government order was so great if there were an attack that the country needed to begin preparing an emergency program.

One of the participants, retired Vice Adm. Roger Rufe, is a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security who is currently designing the government's nuclear attack response plan.

[bdamomma]

1. could this too be related to

I do not like this at all.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=860772&mesg_id=860772

[havocmom]

2. Does that sound like a threat to anybody else?

Keep pushing bush & cheney into a corner and suddenly this gets aired?

Ya know, I have never ruled out threats of blowing up home districts as a means for bush/cheney to keep congress critters in line when blackmail wouldn't work.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Wouldn't plans like that have been in the works since the Soviets exploded their first bomb? n/t

[ixion]

4. the plan: pull back the curtain and show us where we really live

in a totalitarian police state, with no rights whatsoever. :grr:

[WinkyDink]

5. "To prevent chaos" or to prevent people from seeking safety, food, medical help, ANSWERS, etc.?

[trotsky]

6. But I thought that was why we are "fighting them over there"?

Wouldn't an attack here prove they were completely and utterly wrong? They aren't really preparing for an event that would prove their incompetence, are they? :crazy:

[Roland99]

7. It's taken nearly 6 years after 9/11 to start this plan?!

[Octafish]

8. They have had practice.

Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5027094

[SheilaT]

9. Like they'll be any better at this

than they were after Katrina, after the recent Kansas tornado, after any crisis that's occurred on their watch.

Aside from the fact that they put a ridiculous and totally unwarranted amount of time and energy trying to game-plan something with a vanishingly low likelihood of happening while completely ignoring or planning for things that really can and do happen, these people are incompetent fools who shouldn't be allowed to handle sharp knives.