Wednesday’s
edition (Jan. 17, 2018) of the Courier News featured a guest article on its
opinion page on how American civilians should prepare for a potential nuclear strike.
Yikes! Are you kidding me?
There is no
way for civilians to logically prepare for survival following a massive nuclear
strike. Photos depicting the WWII
obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from two atomic bombs should have made
that abundantly clear.
Yet Glenn
Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and author proposes
exactly that.
He quotes a
government agency, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) as
his authority, “While
a nuclear detonation is unlikely, it would have devastating results and there
would be limited time to take critical protection steps. . ..” and
so on, and so on.
I lived
through the Cold War between Russia and the U.S., and I vividly recall the concept
of deterrent dubbed MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
