A Nuclear Attack Would Most Likely Target One Of 6 US Cities.
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A nuclear attack on US soil would most likely target one of six cities, according to one expert: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Washington, DC.
Simulations show how each of the cities would be affected by a 15-kiloton blast — the kind detonated over Hiroshima.
New York City would have the most fatalities. San Francisco would have the least.
It's the disaster for which no city is prepared: A nuclear bomb strikes the US, triggering a blinding flash of light, a giant orange fireball, building-toppling shockwaves, and dangerous nuclear fallout.
"There isn't a single jurisdiction in America that has anything approaching an adequate plan to deal with a nuclear detonation," Irwin Redlener, a public-health expert at Columbia University who specializes in disaster preparedness, told Business Insider.
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has some simple advice for those catastrophic circumstances: Get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned.
But Redlener said the overall federal guidelines weren't enough.
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