How cities respond to nuclear attacks will be crucial if their inhabitants are to survive (Image: David McNew / Getty) Stay indoors
AS US president Barack Obama visits Moscow this week to discuss nuclear arms reduction with his Russian opposite number Dmitry Medvedev, a different nuclear threat is preoccupying emergency planners back home. A panel of medical experts has just released its assessment of the technologies and therapies that could be rolled out if a home-made nuclear bomb was ever detonated in the heart of an American city.
A device of this kind – now judged by Obama to pose…
