Gazrok
A True Doomsday Prepper
The bigger nuclear threat is what will happen to the nuclear plants if they lose both primary and backup power in a SHTF situation. If that happens, meltdown, and the same thing we saw in Chernobyl or Japan.
Here's a map showing the areas affected. You can zoom in to see where you fall.
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/fallout/
Luckily, according to this, we should be good, but just to be safe, we'd shelter for at least 48 hours to two-weeks, depending on the event. (assuming it happens after building my redoubt bunker).
This is also why a Geiger Counter should be part of EVERY prepper's tools. You can pick up modern versions for less than $100. While nuclear war isn't a big possibility...the nuclear disaster is an almost certain consequence if the grid goes down.
Personally, if I was North Korea or a terrorist, I'd ship a big nuke in a cargo container, and then blow it up in a major harbor. I think that's a more realistic threat than any missile or bomb. Even still, it'd be a groundburst detonation, so less of an area, and most likely around 2-5mt tops. Still enough to take out a large chunk of a big city though. I'm sure DHS is fully aware of the threat too, so hopefully, there are a lot of protocols in place, but we get SO many of these containers daily, I just have to be a little worried (if I lived or worked in a port city)....
Here's a map showing the areas affected. You can zoom in to see where you fall.
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/fallout/
Luckily, according to this, we should be good, but just to be safe, we'd shelter for at least 48 hours to two-weeks, depending on the event. (assuming it happens after building my redoubt bunker).
This is also why a Geiger Counter should be part of EVERY prepper's tools. You can pick up modern versions for less than $100. While nuclear war isn't a big possibility...the nuclear disaster is an almost certain consequence if the grid goes down.
Personally, if I was North Korea or a terrorist, I'd ship a big nuke in a cargo container, and then blow it up in a major harbor. I think that's a more realistic threat than any missile or bomb. Even still, it'd be a groundburst detonation, so less of an area, and most likely around 2-5mt tops. Still enough to take out a large chunk of a big city though. I'm sure DHS is fully aware of the threat too, so hopefully, there are a lot of protocols in place, but we get SO many of these containers daily, I just have to be a little worried (if I lived or worked in a port city)....