Emergency Agencies Practice Response To Nuclear Explosion In Times Square

[BlueStateSaint]

Well, I suppose that it's nice to know that someone's actually thinking about attempting to recover from something like this.

Emergency Agencies Practice Response To Nuclear Explosion In Times Square

October 22, 2014 2:58 PM


OEM Commissioner Joe Esposito (left) at practice drill for nuclear bomb attack on Times Square. (credit: Rich Lamb/WCBS 880)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – The New York City region’s emergency agencies are practicing for a disaster.
 
The city’s Office of Emergency Management ran a training exercise Wednesday that simulated a response to a 10-kiloton nuclear device exploding at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Times Square, WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported.
 
According to the exercise, 100,000 people were instantly killed; a wave of overpressure took down buildings for a half-mile radius and did damage for up to two miles; and a radiation cloud swept over the region.

The drill’s scenario also included a shutdown of subway service and interruptions to cellphone service.
 
The city agency practiced rehearsing communications with the federal government and local law enforcement agencies in the Tri-State area.

Interesting, ain't it?

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/22/emergency-agencies-practice-response-to-nuclear-explosion-in-times-square/

[DumbAss Tanker]

An honest-to-God high-order nuclear explosion (Not some chimp-manufactured dirty bomb) in Times Square would gut the emergency response capability of the entire NYC metro area and the outlying cities would have their hands full with the effects on them.  The response, to the extent one could be safely made, would have to come from NY State and Federal resources, and even that would not involve going into the hot zone anytime soon.

[thundley4]

An honest-to-God high-order nuclear explosion (Not some chimp-manufactured dirty bomb) in Times Square would gut the emergency response capability of the entire NYC metro area and the outlying cities would have their hands full with the effects on them.  The response, to the extent one could be safely made, would have to come from NY State and Federal resources, and even that would not involve going into the hot zone anytime soon.

The resulting chaos would make Escape From New York look like a children's movie.

[EagleKeeper]

That's the first thing I thought...

The city’s Office of Emergency Management

The city agency practiced rehearsing communications with the federal government and local law enforcement agencies in the Tri-State area.

I mean it's nice that they are trying but wouldn't they all be dead or dying?

I assume the city agency initial communications would sound kinda like *       *.

[DumbAss Tanker]

That's the first thing I thought...


I mean it's nice that they are trying but wouldn't they all be dead or dying?

I assume the city agency initial communications would sound kinda like *       *.

The pinnacle of communication into and out of the directly-affected area would be CB, military-grade hardened tactical radio nets, and field telephones, any of which would have to be provided by responders going in, because none of it would be left in the strike zone.  Most of the CBs within a couple of hundred miles would be fried by EMP, but a ground burst does at least minimize the EMP effect and limit its range, even if it does maximize the fallout and neutron-induced radiation.

The cell towers, servers for the fiberoptic, and switching stations for even the older landlines would all be gone, and any sort of network dependent on a NYC node would be down.  Even the radio commo would suck (For the radios that didn't have their semiconductors and chips slagged by the EMP) because of ionization from residual radiation.

[JohnnyReb]

First response.....Mecca becomes a giant mud hole in the middle of a giant mirror.

[BlueStateSaint]

First response.....Mecca becomes a giant mud hole in the middle of a giant mirror.

I'd be for that.