NPR- nuclear shelters?

[Jasfino]

I dont want to get into the political part of this but all this talk of nuclear weapons and Iran is getting fuzzy. I was watching a special about it the other nite and with Iran saying it wants to wipe Israel off the map and death to America which they think is feasible in their words... we may be getting closer to a nuclear exchange than we think.

My question is how can you prepare to survive a nuclear war? A shelter in your back yard? It seems that you have to be under at least 2 or 3 feet to escape any of the harmful radiation that will occur afterwards... for who knows how long. I was thinking last nite of how horrible it would be to have to leave my animals out to fend for themselves. This world as we know it could change in an instant. I am thinking of getting a shelter. My hubby thinks it wont matter, if we get nuked... we're better off dead.

[Jane Hurl]

Your hubby has a point.

[Jasfino]

I can see his point but I was thinking of the mass hysteria that would happen after an attack. People would be disorganized and maybe heading to shelters much like what happened in hurricane Katrina. I was thinking a shelter in my backyard would be better than that alternative. If it happens, I would rather be prepared to some degree rather than just giving up and waiting to get the fallout. Didnt they have fallout shelters in the 60's? I remember vaguely about it but I was just a kid then and didnt understand it all.

People survived the nuclear exchange in this shelter.

http://www.ki4u.com/free_book/nw015.jpg

[Carol Nelson]

Ha, Jen, I was just gonna say you're probably too young to remember the bomb shelters of the late fifties and sixties. People actually built them into the basements of their homes! That's back when atom bombs were small enough to maybe survive the attacks...nowadays, with our sophisticated homing devices on the weapons and the size of the payloads, I wouldn't want to survive anyway, even if I could. Just let me go with the first big blast!

[Linda Y]

As terrible as being killed sounds, I think trying to survive in a post nuclear world would be far worse. Survivors would be reduced to the most basic states. It would be law of the jungle and all that stuff.
Naw, I would want to be toasted in the first blast and never know what hit me.

[RR]

I am with you Linda. Just let me go out with a puff of smoke.

[PASOFAN]

Yeah, I wouldnt want to be here either...

If I survived I would go mad missing my Mtn dew, my vienameses food since eveyrthing would be wiped out.. I'd rather be w/my maker...

:D

[Jasfino]

But what if you didnt go in the big blast? What if you had to try to survive the fallout of the radiation.... that from what I have read..makes dying any other way look inviting. I dont want to sound like an alarmist but it looks like we should at least have a plan on what to do. Why doesnt the government talk about it more like it did back when I was a kid? Are the weapons of today so much more terrible that noone will survive.. no matter what?

[Terri]

Jen, you can ask "what if" questions all day long and get yourself all in a knot and die from ulcers. What if there is an earthquake? a tornado? famine, biological attack. All we can do is live each day as best we can and put the Rest into Gods hands. You could be building your shelter and get into a deadly car accident on your way to the hardware store for supplies.
Remember
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself, each day has enough trouble of its own" Mt 6:43
Take care of the people in your life that have needs TODAY and let God worry about tomorrow.

[greyhorsewoman]

It's amazing ... you can find EVERYTHING on the internet these days... there is quite a bit of information at this ling;

http://www.radshelters4u.com/

[CarolU]

I don't think I'd lose sleep over it. I'm sure the U.S. will turn Iraq to glass when/if they get as far as an actual weapon.

Where greater dangers are, are the suitcase nukes developed by Russia (they're not all accounted for I heard), or a dirty bomb which is essentially radioactive waste disseminated by a conventional munition (no nuclear blast). I do believe either would be targeted for maximum 'kill' or impact. Probably New York, D.C., L.A., or Chicago has a lot more to worry about.

Don't go the Super Bowl.

[Terry Wallace]

I live 20 miles from NORAD..if it gets nuked....I'm dead in an instant...I really would not worry about it...if you get irradiated, there won't be any saving you or your horses. Radiation mutates and destroys DNA.... people and animals can't survive it.

Even if you had a shelter, when you come out of it...what will you do then?

[Jasfino]

I have put it in Gods hands, and I understand the utter helplessness that I feel when I think of what might happen to me, or my family, if or when it happens. I look into the face of my grandchild who just turned two and think I would love to slap the face of the scientists that made this horrible nightmare a reality. I just feel like God gave me a brain to try to help myself in the event that something like this happens. I do live in a rural area that is about 25 miles from an uranium enrichment plant so who knows? I know the major cities dwellers have alot more to worry about than I do, but still shouldnt someone be talking about what to do in the case of it becoming a reality? I know after watching what happened when Katrina hit that we will definetly be on our own. I think Russia has 100 suitcase bombs unaccounted for. That is just as scary and even more of a risk. If the government can spend all this money on bombs, it seems like they could take a few dollars and tell us what to do in case someone uses one on us. I think someone said duct tape your doors and windows in case of a chemical weapon attack? Boy that makes me feel like they have a handle on the situation. Not really worried.. I just tend to think way too hard sometimes... :-?