A NEW YORKERS GUIDE TO CIVIL DEFENSE. WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO & HOW FAST TO DO IT.
hospital care, and if only two or three radiation victims came to a major hospital today, the medication, transfusions, plasma, specialized care and sophisticated therapy required would strain the hospital’s resources. One bomb over New York City would expose millions. This number of radiation victims would be impossible to treat medically. And realistically hospitals would be destroyed and doctors and medical teams would be among the dead.
The long-term effects of radiation may be so severe that, even if we escape radiation sickness, we may suffer from the after-effects of fallout years, even decades, later. These long-term effects of radiation include: leukemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, cancer of the large intestine and changes in our genes. Once affected, we can never rebuild our genetic structure.
I can’t believe that I live minutes away from a nuclear war, death by vaporization, suffocation, being crushed, blown through the streets at 300 mph, incinerated in a firestorm or incapacitated from the effects of fallout… and that no one is doing anything about it! Look, how do we protect ourselves?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has a civil defense plan called “crisis relocation,” which is simply civilian evacuation. There are certain designated “risk” areas and other so-called “safe” areas. In the event of nuclear war, 11 million people are supposed to evacuate the Metropolitan Area (high-risk area) in a little over three days. Moving by bus, train, car, plane,
