It may be horrific, and it may be painful, and it may be destruction all around, but it is survivable if you're smart about it,' he says.

For him, the first step would be to change the 1984 state law barring nuclear emergency preparations, which he finds too fatalistic. Instead, emergency managers take what's called the 'All Hazards' approach - they say they can apply to a nuclear attack the same skills they'd use for other crises, such as earthquakes.īut Washington state senator Mark Miloscia - who is a former Air Force bomber pilot - would like to see more specific planning for nuclear attack. Ventura County, Calif., which in 2014 created a specific plan for nuclear attack, is one of the exceptions to the rule. So today, most local plans for nuclear attack are low-profile, if they exist at all. 'They really didn't want to have to say, 'There really isn't a lot of work we can do for you people, because if the Soviet Union launches 30 nuclear weapons at New York City, you guys aren't going to make it.' And not being able to 'fess up to that fact I think discredited a lot of their work.'

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