Experts Plan For How To Deal With Nuclear Terror Strike -- USA TodayA terrorist nuclear strike in a major U.S. city would kill and injure so many people that disaster planners rewrote the rules for dealing with casualties.
Their analysis is part of a comprehensive effort to develop a medical response plan for dealing with a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb, which would pack roughly the explosive force of the Hiroshima blast or 5,000 Oklahoma City truck bombs.
Demand for medical care would be almost inconceivable. In Washington, a city with 38 ambulances, and neighboring communities, at least 930,000 people would seek medical care. More than 70,000 would need hospitalization, vastly overflowing the city's 3,600 hospital beds. There would be at least 1,000 severely injured trauma patients for every available operating room, says co-author David Weinstock, a radiation expert at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The reports were released Monday in the Journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
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Update: US ill-prepared for emergency radiation: study -- AFP
My Comment: The report from the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness can be found at their website here.
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