GAO Report Finds US Unprepared For Catastrophic Disaster -- FOX News
The federal government is not fully prepared to handle a nuclear terrorist attack or other sort of large-scale catastrophe and is years away from ensuring the safety of Americans if an event should happen, a Government Accountability Office finds.
The report obtained by the Associated Press finds that the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not always keep track of safety efforts, which affected the preparedness of states even after Superstorm Sandy devastated the northeast.
"FEMA is not aware of the full range of information," the report says. The investigation relied in part on internal documents from the Homeland Security Department, which oversees FEMA, including previously undisclosed details from a 2013 disaster plan that highlights needed improvements in the event of an attack from an improvised nuclear device.
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Update: US not prepared for nuclear attack, large national catastrophe, report says -- AP
My Comment: Thinking and preparing for the unthinkable .... besides stockpiling the basics, how can anyone prepare for that.
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