Re: Decision time!

["Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

The following submitted by Dr. Howard Long.



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Subject: Re: Decision time!

To: BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>

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Concrete Action

HPs, I took individual action to get you-all involved in fallout detection

and

panic prevention. Saturday, Oct. 27, I announced to the Association of

American

Physicians and Surgeons meeting in Cincinnati:



Prevent Panic! Radioactive Fallout May Be the Next Terrorist Attack



1.  Sec Defense Rumsfeld responded to USA Today, "Suppose there's NUCLEAR

[emphasis mine], or chemical-biological attacks on the US a year from now -.

What

would I -want to have done - to deter -, prevent-, or mitigate the damage-?"



2. AAPS website response of Jane Orient, Ex Dir (and same for Doctors for

Disaster

Preparedness) was, "Download Kearney's "Nuclear War Survival Skills", free,

and

order  a cc shipped for $19.75. from www.oism.org.".



3. Contact a volunteer local health physicist through

radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

to join you at medical society, Rotary, or hospital meetings to answer

questions

about measuring fallout and reassuring with info about the BETTER health of

survivors.



I hope you all will call your physicians and offer to help answer technical

questions

.

Howard Long, MD MPH (epidemiology)





BERNARD L COHEN wrote:



>         Please recommend some concrete action individuals can take.

>

> Bernard L. Cohen

> Physics Dept.

> University of Pittsburgh

> Pittsburgh, PA 15260

> Tel: (412)624-9245

> Fax: (412)624-9163

> e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu

>







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