[EAS] Minutes to Live

[Ed Czarnecki]

A little over a year ago, Russia ran a massive civil defense exercise
focused on a nuclear event.  By "massive," to the order of 200,000 first
responders and claiming involvement or cooperation of 40 million citizens.
I'm not necessarily suggesting we have anything to learn from the Russian
approach, and yes politics and posturing may have more to do with the
exercises than actual preparedness.  From what I was told, the actual
exercise was pretty much a rehash of cold war duck and cover activities,
location of shelters, and practice on post-event response.  I had asked for
a copy of what they broadcast on TV in one city, but never got a clip.

Also, their version of FEMA is even one-upping in name.  It's not just
"emergency management" - it's the Ministry for Civil Defence, Emergencies
and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (???????????? ?????? ??
????? ??????????? ???????, ???????????? ????????? ? ?????????? ???????????
????????? ????????... which is a mouthful in either language, or EMERCOM).
Classic Russian approach - go big, or go home.

-----Original Message-----
From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy

Watch the wrap....it's there.

What everyone, save for a few engineering types, fails to mention in the
context of response and recovery is the detonation impact will be felt
hundreds, if not a thousand miles from the point of detonation.  We've
covered the EMP impact adnausem here. But few in the general public realize