U.S. Prepares to Get Nuked

There's an important story in the NYT about new efforts from the U.S. national laboratories to retain and improve their ability to identify nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, any fissionable materials turned into a nuclear weapon will be composed of a specific ratio of various radionuclides, which form a sort of signature, which can be used to identify the source of the fissionable material. The problem is, naturally, that you're probably doing this after the detonation.

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At least

[Anonymous Coward]

The internet will survive it... right?

Re:At least

[HepCatA]

Of course! The military has to get its porn from SOMEWHERE after a nuclear event. That's what it was designed for.

Re:At least

[Tassach]

Ohhh... like that ever-popular Taliban favorite, "Babes in Burquas VII". I hear that you can actually see their hair in that one.

Flash

[Ethernet_Jedi]

Like the blinding flash, shockwave and mushroom cloud wouldn't give you a clue

Re:Flash

[Imperator]

I run Mozilla on Linux so I'm safe from all that flash and shockwave stuff, right?

OB quote.

[dhalgren99]

Someone set us up the bomb!

They did this in Sum of All Fears - Clancy

[Aindair]

I hope the fact that Clancy wrote a novel about airlines used as bombs before 9/11 doesn't mean that there is an entire US Gov division researching his books and making policy decisions based on things in them. Oh wait, I guess this could be better than SOME of the reality we live in.

Im not worried

[falcon5768]

as per ready.gov's instructions... i got my 25 miles of ductape... fuck those nukes!

2 eyed fish...

[bcore]

You know you're living in a radioactive area if these are hopping around!

So to recap the day...

[oldmildog]

So to recap what we've learned today, the following will die:

• Tivo
• Civilization on Mars
• AOL
• Apple
• America

Re:So to recap the day...

[1s44c]

So to recap what we've learned today, the following will die:

Tivo
Civilization on Mars
AOL
Apple
America

It's a shame about Apple.

Obligatory misreading of title

[RobertB-DC]

I suppose I'm the only one who read the title as "U.S. Prepares to Get Naked".

Which, of course, would have been a dupe of this article, right?

(And just when I'd gotten my karma back, too!)

Re:Hah!

[Borg453b]

That site says nothing about zombie infestations, the obvious choice of future attack.

Here are a few free pointers:
Seek out a mall. It will contain canned foods and hardware for fighting off the zombie horde.

Trust your fellow man to go insane under pressure. He/She will attempt to flee a safe location, endangering those that hide within.. or he or she may force you to stay in an a deathtrap.

What is it with the word "GET"?

[Malc]

The word "get" is so over and badly used in American English. It grates after a while. "The US prepares to be nuked"

No You Fool

[Greyfox]

Nuking someone makes 8 squares of pollution and makes everyone else in the world hate you. And we don't have enough settlers right now to clean up all that pollution.