{"id":1186,"date":"2006-08-16T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T16:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","slug":"the_la_times_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"The LA Times Sees This As Local News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My local paper, the Daily Breeze, which I love because high school sports dominate the Saturday sports page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/articles\/3580156.html\" target=\"browser\">runs a front-page article<\/a> on what a 10kt nuke in Long Beach harbor would do &#8230; my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedliberal.com\/blog\/2002_09_22_armedliberal_archive.html#82019869\" target=\"browser\">nightmare scenario<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long, great article, and you ought to go read it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Titled &#8220;Considering the Effects of a Catastrophic Terrorist Attack&#8221; the report warns that in the weeks and months after an attack, costs would exceed $1 trillion in medical care, insurance claims, workers&#8217; compensation, evacuation and construction.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The $50 billion to $100 billion for (the 9-11 terrorist attacks) put this figure into perspective,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;In general, consequences would far outstrip the resources available to cope with them.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll beg you to go read it, because it gives a sense of the stakes involved.<\/p>\n<p>And when you&#8217;re done, ask yourself this&#8230;absent a calling card from the scientists at Natanz&#8230;who do we respond to when it happens?<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the Times covered it as well &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-nuclear16aug16,1,7213606.story\" target=\"browser\">in the California section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuking Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}