广告
广告

我们为核攻击做准备吗?

Putin’s actions in Ukraine have succeeded in making Americans more wary of a nuclear event now than at any time since the Cold War.

我们为核攻击做准备吗?
[Source Images: Enzo Brandi/EyeEm; Katharine E. Wright/Getty]

广告
广告

尽管专家们希望弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin核事件现在比冷战以来的任何时候。

President Joe Biden, asked Monday whether U.S. citizens should be concerned about a nuclear war breaking out, gave a succinct answer: “No。” And Matthew Bunn, former adviser to President Bill Clinton’s Office of Science and Technology Policy,告诉Vox,,,,“I think there is virtually no chance nuclear weapons are going to be used in the Ukraine situation. . . . No one outside of Putin’s inner circle knows for sure why Putin has taken this action. My guess—and it’s only that—is that it is intended as further signaling to deter anyone in the West from even thinking about intervening militarily to help Ukraine.”

Officials also point to the宙斯盾岸系统,弹道导弹防御系统located on a base in Poland,,,,as one form of protection.

广告
广告

但这并没有减轻对美国为核事件做准备的好奇心,而在一个爆炸

在准备方面,这是一个混合的袋子。政府的准备就绪网站确实有一个专门用于核爆炸的页面,为您如何做在一个附近。更好的是,该页面不是一个档案,并且至少在过去两年中已更新,因为它指出,大流行可能在寻找庇护所时会引起一些问题。

它建议:“在通勤时,请确定适当的避难所在发生爆炸时寻求。”“由于Covid-19,您可能会关闭和下班的许多地方可能会关闭或可能没有正常的营业时间。”

广告

该页面还建议您撤离,以保护自己和家人免受Covid-19的保护,例如面具和洗手液,如果您被撤离。

但是,在本地层面上,信息较少。Of the major metro areas that are likely to be targeted in the event of an attack (Washington, D.C.; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Francisco; Houston), only one of the emergency management department’s websites discusses preparing for a nuclear incident—Los Angeles。((New Yorkand华盛顿特区。,,,,纳马克(Namecheck)一场辐射灾难,但仅是一个危险事件。)

这导致了人们对国家准备水平的批评。In 2018,,,,the K=1 Project, Center for Nuclear Studies at Columbia University, said “the United States and its citizens are not currently prepared for the after effects of a nuclear disaster of any type, whether an air missile from another nation, an attack on the ground from a terrorist or terrorist group, or some kind of accidental detonation.”

广告

那真是令人震惊。但是,在极少数发生核事件的可能性中,无论是在许多1980年代电影中想象的传统攻击还是肮脏的炸弹,您都可以采取一些措施来保护自己并增加生存的机会。准备灾难的领导者欧文·雷德莱纳(Irwin Redlener)提出了一些建议在2008年的TED演讲中,包括避免看爆炸的光线闪烁,可能会引起失明,并遵循小学上的婴儿潮一代和X Xers的经典“鸭子和掩护”建议,以避免被碎片受伤。

在这种恐慌中可能会减少焦虑的一件事是记住以前构成了这样的威胁 -19次自第二次世界大战结束以来。(实际上,2014年克里姆林宫产生了类似的威胁在克里米亚的入侵和吞并期间。)在每种情况下,情况最终都平静下来。白宫和北约官员正试图拨打言论,希望能够再次逐渐缩小。

“核武器国家无法抗击核战争,因为它会冒着灭绝的风险,但他们可能会威胁到它。”乔治敦大学政府和外交教授马修·克罗尼格(Matthew Kroenig)专门从事原子战略,告诉纽约时报。“They play games of nuclear chicken, of raising the risk of war in hopes that the other side will back down and say, ‘Geez, this isn’t worth fighting a nuclear war over.'”

广告
广告
广告