Response Planning: In the Media

FEMA’s Citizen Corps held a Community Preparedness Webinar on Reducing Consequences of Nuclear Detonation on March 15, 2011. Recent research and federal planning guidance has assessed that hundreds of thousands of lives can be saved through adequate planning and knowledge about appropriate actions that can be taken by the public, responders, and the medical community in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation. More »

On May 19, 2011, the UPMC Center for Biosecurity conducted a meeting on Advancing U.S. Resilience to a Nuclear Catastrophe, in which Brooke Buddemeier, Global Security Directorate of LLNL, discussed "Bounding the Problem: Updated Models of the Effects of a Nuclear Detonation in a Major City." This conference focused on policies and new proposals to strengthen the capacity of major U.S. cities, and the nation as a whole, to withstand a nuclear catastrophe. More »

This presentation was delivered in January of 2010 by Brooke Buddemeier, a certified health physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It was given at the Radiation Preparedness and Clinical Applications Seminar, which was sponsored by Los Angeles County Radiation Management. More »

CNN's Deb Feyerick reports on how to survive an improvised nuclear device attack. More »

The plotters decided to trigger their bomb in Los Angeles during the morning rush, at a metro station a stone's throw from Universal Studios and the set where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes from "War of the Worlds." More »

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. More »