Our overview is,  we are worried about a attack from the other side of the world are a really bad depression not recession because we don't have grand parent's are parent's that live on a farm are live in the country to fall back on.

Thank about how you survive without electricity for a week, a month, a year now that scares the hell out of me

WAR ON AMERICAN SOIL

Is it possible, War on American Soil

Terrorists have tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. Hearings and media articles since September 11 have highlighted radiological dispersal devices, or "dirty bombs," which would use standard explosives or other means to disperse radioactive materials. Dirty bombs would be quite feasible for a terrorist group to make, given the limited expertise needed and the availability of explosives and radioactive material. An attack with such a weapon likely would kill or injure few people and cause little property damage, though it could cause panic and might require closing some areas for an undetermined time. While a terrorist attack using a nuclear weapon (a device that caused a substantial nuclear explosive yield, as distinct from a dirty bomb) has much lower feasibility, it merits consideration because it would have much higher consequence. The September 11 attacks, as well as earlier and later analyses, showed that many U.S. facilities could be attractive targets for terrorist attack. One set of targets that has attracted attention from Congress is the nation’s seaports. If terrorists smuggled a Hiroshima-sized bomb into a port and set it off, the attack would destroy buildings out to a mile or two; start fires, especially in a port that handled petroleum and chemicals; fallout over many square miles; and disrupt commerce. It could kill many thousands of people.

Terrorists might attempt to smuggle a bomb into a U.S. port in many ways, such as in a tanker or a dry bulk freighter, but sea containers may provide them a particularly attractive route. A container is "[a] truck trailer body that can be detached from the chassis for loading into a vessel, a rail car or stacked in a container depot." Much of the world’s cargo moves by container. The U.S. Customs Service processed 5.7 million containers entering the United States by ship in 2001.3 It screens data for all these containers, though it inspects "only about 2 percent of the total volume of trade entering the country each year." Containers could easily accommodate a nuclear weapon. U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert Bonner believes that with an attack using a bomb in a container, "the shipping of sea containers would stop," leading to devastating consequences for the global economy, bringing some countries to the edge of economic collapse. On the other hand, people can find ways to minimize economic problems.
There are 4 basic problems concerning nuclear terrorism facing the U. S. today. These are [not in order of importance]:
(1) A terrorist act at a domestic nuclear facility such as

- A commercial nuclear reactor
- A DOE nuclear facility
- A commercial nuclear fuel enrichment or fabrication facility
- A university nuclear reactor
(2) Explosion of a "Dirty Bomb" in a public place such as

- A major city
- An amusement park
- A sports stadium
- An airport or sea port
(3) Release of radioactive material into and air or water supply

- An aerosol or other airborne radioactive material released into the air intake of a major building
- Radioactive material released into the water supply of a major city
(4) Explosion of a nuclear weapon

- There are over 200 documented cases of persons attempting to purchase special nuclear material (stuff to make bombs) or tactical nuclear weapons on the black market
- There are over 100 "suitcase bombs" missing from the Soviet nuclear inventory

This last item is probably the most important. The former head of Soviet National Security, Alexander Lebed testified to that fact before congress. He stated that the devices measure approximately 24" x 16" x 8" and can be set off by an individual in less than 30 minutes, producing a 1 kilo ton yield. Such a device, set off in New York Harbor would produce a 15 to 20 foot wave that would destroy New York City. Other sources have confirmed that the number of suitcase bombs missing from the Soviet inventory is correct.

Are Nuclear Attacks Even Something To Worry About.

This is considered a lower probability by terrorism experts. However, the nature of terrorism itself is that it is unpredictable. We also thought 9/11 couldn't happen. All of us live close enough to nuclear power plants that it is a viable issue to consider. With the potential capability of terrorists to create smaller nuclear weapon in the range of 20 Kiloton Improvised Nuclear Devices (IND) to 150 Kiloton (KT) Mulistage Nuclear Device, a surprise nuclear attack is not impossible. (This is very different than 1960-1990s' 5 Megaton - 20 Megaton (MT) Nuclear ICBMs of USSR.)
    The most important and different aspect is such potential terrorist nuclear weapons would be more localized and are survivable beyond the immediate area of attack. But nuclear fallout does spread via wind, and the after affects would be necessary to protect your family from. NOTE: This is not to diminish the significant threat that even a "small" terrorist nuclear weapon would pose. A 15 KT terrorist IND device would be comparable to explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb.
    Typically, there is a wider range of fallout DOWNWIND from a nuclear device or explosion, so that would be a possible consideration in an evacuation plan. With largest nuclear exposure ever measured (huge 15 Megaton bomb), Government identified fallout pattern reached downwind for 320 miles, but there was only a WIDTH of cross section in downwind fallout of 40 miles. If you are thinking a 150 KT nuclear explosion, you could extrapolate estimate of 32 miles fallout downwind, and 4 mile fallout width downwind.
     So if you are not NORTH of a nuclear attack, and you are south or downwind of it, try to be at least 4 miles away from downwind, and make effort to be 20 miles - so if you go SOUTH - you would try to go SOUTHEAST or SOUTHWEST of nuclear attack, not just directly South, if possible. To play it safe, you would want to get 50 miles away quickly from an attack. Bottom line in a nuclear attack is DISTANCE.

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