Word: fema
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...Americans in case of nuclear attack. Some ideas have come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has made ambitious plans for removing citizens from 380 high-risk areas, including cities with more than 50,000 people and areas near military bases. In Plattsburgh, N.Y., a booklet prepared with FEMA'S help advises residents to have on hand, packed and ready to go, like a giant doomsday picnic basket, some 55 items, including large supplies of tinned foods, blankets, axes, flashlights and a portable toilet. As one local skeptic noted: "We'll all need U-Hauls to take...
...some cases, tiny details render grandiose plans suspect. In California, the regional headquarters of FEMA is located just a jiggle away from the San Andreas Fault. In western Missouri, the strategy currently calls for people to pass missile sites that make the area a prime target for nuclear attack. In Arizona, FEMA'S program offers elaborate details for moving 70,000 residents of Phoenix 78 miles north to Prescott, a town of 20,000. Officials have not figured out how Prescott, which barely survives the annual deluge of tourists at its July 4 Frontier Days festival, will house...
...cornerstone of FEMA'S response is "crisis relocation": the removal of people from 380 high-risk areas, including cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants and areas near military bases and industrial centers. Officials expect to have anywhere from a few days to a week to prepare for nuclear attack. Evacuation plans have already been placed in telephone directories in Plattsburgh, N.Y., Austin, Marquette County, Mich., and Aroostoock County, Me. By next year, 38 million Americans will have similar instructions in their phone books. FEMA also plans to restock fallout shelters and eventually train 8,200 state and local...
...doubtful that civil defense plans like FEMA's could even begin to protect 80 percent of the American people. For one thing, many experts say the long-term environmental effects of full-scale nuclear war would destroy the U.S. as a political, social and biological entity. The point, although it escapes both FEMA planners and president Reagan, is as horrifying as it is simple: there is just no place to hide from nuclear...
More dismaying, the committee's temporary rejection of FEMA's plan does nothing to protect the American people from an irresponsible president who, by advising us that we can "drive away" from Soviet missiles, is simply lying to the public. What is more, a president who believes that civil defense makes nuclear war "survivable" might not think it's so terrible to risk a confrontation with the Soviets. And that is not very funny...