Name: Irwin Redlener habla de sobrevivir a un ataque nuclear.
Uploaded: 2008-09-09T01:00:00Z
Duration: 24 min 58 s
Description: La cara del terror nuclear ha cambiado desde la Guerra Fría, pero el experto en medicina de desastres, Irwin Redlener, nos recuerda que la amenaza sigue siendo real. Toma como ejemplo algunas absurdas medidas preventivas en la historia y ofrece consejos prácticos sobre cómo sobrevivir a un ataque.

Here I say, "So you're feeling the wind — and there's tremendous wind now that you're going to be feeling — and you want to go perpendicular to the wind or downwind," but in fact I meant to say you should go *only* perpendicular to the wind — in other words, crosswind.

Similarly, here I say, "You want to move downwind or crosswind for 1.2 miles," but I meant to say only that you want to move crosswind for 1.2 miles.

La cara del terror nuclear ha cambiado desde la Guerra Fría, pero el experto en medicina de desastres, Irwin Redlener, nos recuerda que la amenaza sigue siendo real. Toma como ejemplo algunas absurdas medidas preventivas en la historia y ofrece consejos prácticos sobre cómo sobrevivir a un ataque.

Irwin Redlener habla de sobrevivir a un ataque nuclear.

Physician, disaster-preparedness activist

The threat of nuclear catastrophe has shifted from superpower standoffs to insecure arsenals and the risk of terrorism. With as little as 75 pounds of stolen uranium, a Hiroshima-sized bomb could be built and smuggled into a city. Although Cold War civil defense strategies were largely ineffective, practical steps today could save hundreds of thousands of lives in a nuclear emergency. Effective preparedness and clear-headed action can mean the difference between mass tragedy and survival.