Name: Irwin Redlener: sopravvivere ad un attacco nucleare
Uploaded: 2008-09-09T01:00:00Z
Duration: 24 min 58 s
Description: Il terrore nucleare e' cambiato dalla guerra fredda, ma l' esperto di medicina dei disastri Irwin Redlener ci ricorda che il pericolo e' ancora reale. Guardando ad alcune delle contromisure nucleari farsesche ci offre il suo consiglio su come sopravvivere ad un attacco.

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.

Il terrore nucleare e' cambiato dalla guerra fredda, ma l' esperto di medicina dei disastri Irwin Redlener ci ricorda che il pericolo e' ancora reale. Guardando ad alcune delle contromisure nucleari farsesche ci offre il suo consiglio su come sopravvivere ad un attacco.

Irwin Redlener: sopravvivere ad un attacco nucleare

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.