Please don't comment about politic or hate.
Following the recent news, I just wonder if your city get ready about nuclear disaster. It can be happened anywhere.
Please answer properly ( out of political answer, and I don't want this thread is closed)
So, let us discuss, is there any drill for citizen, any bunker, etc. How about the firefighter, hospital, electricity, power, mass evacuation etc.
Thanks...

There's a few old WWII bunkers under the city, most have been sealed up or are still hidden/undiscovred. But no we wouldn't be ready or a nuclear disaster, but it wouldn't happen here realistically, as we have no nuclear power (yet) and we arn't a high target, they'd go for the more touristy sydney.
/me nukes china
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Australia hasn't got any nuclear atm but are getting a few built soon. Non in Melbourne though. No we wouldn't be ready but as far as accidental nuclear disaster it won't happen here. I'm pretty sure the whole countries nuclear waste will be dumped in one state when they are built. Pretty funny.

And you are talking about accidental not terrorists right...?
Melbourne did get a terrorist threat from al queada along with LA some time I would say around last year. No news since then though.

There was an article in the paper this morning about the decommissioned air-raid sirens we have around Seattle that are relics from the Cold-War, a war we all thought was over until its last front just detonated the bomb. As for preparedness, every American city has access to freeways and highways that were built during the Cold War to facilitate mass evacuations. How well they will work has yet to be seen. You still see fall-out shelters on older buildings, but they are increasingly rare. The effectiveness of our military in deterring a nuclear attack is impossible to say as we don't know how the attack will occur. It it were a missile strike I think our chances would be better than if someone were to detonate a dirty bomb downtown. For Seattle specifically, the geography would disrupt the circular blast pattern of a nuclear strike somewhat. But I think the uniform answer your going to get from asking how a city would fare from being the target of nuclear attack is: not too well. It is almost like asking, "how prepared is your city to be destroyed?"

I dont think so.. just look at this map.. I think we're not ready for a nuclear disaster..
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