Seriously, build that shelter. If you grew up in my old neighborhood, you might have had one (my next door neighbors had theirs filled in with concrete, but I remember my piano teacher had hers fully stocked even in 1997).
Why? Congressional Quarterly reports that (I have no idea what prompted this) in a nuclear attack, the best thing to do (when you're not vaporized) is to stay put.
Actually, the reason that they're talking about is because this is what Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) thinks is important.
Please note, Senator Lieberman is Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee...does anyone think he has more important things to hold hearings on?In the event of the most likely type of nuclear attack, people would be better off ignoring the instinct to flee and remain inside their homes, security experts said Tuesday.
"The natural inclination is to flee and what they're going to do is they're going to get caught in gridlock," said Cham E. Dallas, director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia. "They're going to get caught in gridlock because everyone else will be fleeing, and that is not viable. Most people should not flee" because they won't be affected.
Dallas made his comments following a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on confronting challenges a day after a nuclear attack.
Ashton B. Carter, co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, echoed the sentiment. "Certainly most of my friends and family who don't do this, they think that a nuclear weapon levels an entire city and that anybody nearby better get out of the way or they're going to get covered in radiation," Carter said after the hearing. "That's just not true."
Just in case you didn't know...
