Name: Irwin Redlener : comment survivre à une attaque nucléaire?
Uploaded: 2008-09-09T01:00:00Z
Duration: 24 min 58 s
Description: La visage du terrorisme nucléaire a changé depuis la Guerre Froide, mais l'expert en médecine du désastre Irwin Redlener nous rappelle que la menace est toujours réelle. Il montre certaines contre-mesures burlesques historiques et nous offre des conseils pratiques pour survivre à une attaque.

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 visage du terrorisme nucléaire a changé depuis la Guerre Froide, mais l'expert en médecine du désastre Irwin Redlener nous rappelle que la menace est toujours réelle. Il montre certaines contre-mesures burlesques historiques et nous offre des conseils pratiques pour survivre à une attaque.

Irwin Redlener : comment survivre à une attaque nucléaire?

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.