{"id":40235,"date":"2022-07-14T07:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=40235"},"modified":"2022-07-14T07:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T15:18:25","slug":"you-dont-got-this-peace-group-blasts-nycs-new-nuclear-survival-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/14\/you-dont-got-this-peace-group-blasts-nycs-new-nuclear-survival-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You Don&#8217;t Got This&#8217;: Peace Group Blasts NYC&#8217;s New Nuclear Survival PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peace advocates on Tuesday derided a New York City public service announcement meant to prepare residents for a nuclear attack as a 21st-century version of the absurd <em>Duck and Cover<\/em> civil defense film of the early Cold War era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, there&#8217;s been a nuclear attack,&#8221; the narrator of the NYC Emergency Management <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk\">video<\/a> begins. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask me how or why, just know the big one has hit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what do we do?&#8221; she continues before instructing viewers to &#8220;get inside, fast,&#8221; &#8220;stay inside&#8230; and get clean immediately,&#8221; and &#8220;stay tuned; follow media for more information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All right? You&#8217;ve got this,&#8221; the woman assures viewers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The City of New York came up with a pretty useless PSA on how to protect ourselves from nuclear attack. Follow media? Um, there won&#39;t be electricity or media. Then again, we&#39;ll all be vaporized so&#8230; It pains me to say that there were no nuclear PSAs when Trump was president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PhMzBCdSrY\">pic.twitter.com\/PhMzBCdSrY<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &mdash; Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freedomrideblog\/status\/1546647400030392323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While New York City Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/nyc-nuclear-attack-psa\/3771159\/\">called<\/a> the PSA a &#8220;great idea,&#8221; some critics <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freedomrideblog\/status\/1546660381187260417\">accused<\/a> officials of unwarranted fearmongering amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2022\/06\/17\/amid-heightened-fears-nuclear-war-dem-lawmakers-urge-us-join-arms-summit\">increased nuclear tensions<\/a> with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and NATO&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<p>Others lambasted the PSA as latest in a line of nuclear war informationals like the U.S. Civil Defense Administration&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU\">Duck and Cover<\/a><\/em>and the British government&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg\">Protect and Survive<\/a><\/em> films that offer little more than delusive contentment for millions of people who likely would not survive a full-scale thermonuclear attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is, if this comes to pass, you don&#8217;t &#8216;got this,'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuclearban\/status\/1546875107368370179\">tweeted<\/a> the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work leading to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/10\/25\/victory-humanity-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-take-effect-honduras-becomes-50th\">landmark treaty<\/a> outlawing nukes.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the PSA &#8220;outrageously misguided,&#8221; ICAN said it&#8217;s difficult to get inside fast during a nuclear explosion &#8220;when, in a matter of seconds, houses up to 175 kilometers away from the epicenter crumble like they are made of cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">??1\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nycemergencymgt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nycemergencymgt<\/a> just released a video advising New Yorkers of steps to follow in the event of a nuclear attack. \u201cYou\u2019ve got this\u201d, they say. Reminiscent of Cold War era \u201cduck and cover\u201d PSAs, it\u2019s outrageously misguided! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nuclearban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nuclearban<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qQMzb9aXVQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/qQMzb9aXVQ<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43qtOoLiEy\">pic.twitter.com\/43qtOoLiEy<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &mdash; ICAN (@nuclearban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuclearban\/status\/1546875094705766402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PSA goes on to advise to &#8216;stay inside, remove clothing, and shower,'&#8221; ICAN added. &#8220;As if taking a shower will be feasible during a nuclear attack, or effective to protect you against radioactive ash. And &#8216;stay tuned&#8217; &#8211; as if communications infrastructure will be functional.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The United States and Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icanw.org\/nuclear_arsenals\">have<\/a> over 11,000 nuclear warheads in their combined arsenals. China, France, and Britain have hundreds of warheads each, while India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea each have between 50-165 nukes.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nuclearsecrecy.com\/nukemap\/\">NukeMap<\/a>, a single Russian 800 kiloton warhead airburst over midtown Manhattan would destroy or severely damage much of New York City and cause an estimated 4.5 million casualties. <\/p>\n<p>A higher-yield weapon, like the five-megaton warheads atop China&#8217;s Dong Feng-5 intercontinental ballistic missiles, would destroy most of the city while killing or wounding around eight million people. In an actual full-scale nuclear war, multiple warheads would likely be launched against a target as important as New York. <\/p>\n<p>Millions of people not instantly incinerated or obliterated by the fireball &#8211; which is hotter than the sun&#8217;s core &#8211; and immense blast wave of a nuclear explosion would <a href=\"https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/read\/11282\/chapter\/8#75\">suffer<\/a> severe burns, blinding, lacerations, blunt-force injuries, and, for many, the slow death of radiation poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The living,&#8221; Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/73\/1257.html\"> reputedly said<\/a>, &#8220;will envy the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Brett Wilkins is is staff writer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\">Common Dreams<\/a>. Based in San Francisco, his work covers issues of social justice, human rights and war and peace. This originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\">CommonDreams<\/a> and is reprinted with the author&#8217;s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace advocates on Tuesday derided a New York City public service announcement meant to prepare residents for a nuclear attack as a 21st-century version of the absurd Duck and Cover civil defense film of the early Cold War era. &#8220;So, there&#8217;s been a nuclear attack,&#8221; the narrator of the NYC Emergency Management video begins. &#8220;Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"It's difficult to take shelter during a thermonuclear attack, says ICAN, \"when, in a matter of seconds, houses up to 175 kilometers away from the epicenter crumble like they are made of cards.\""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40237,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40235\/revisions\/40237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40235"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}