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How to prepare for the new nuclear era

Letter to The State’s editorial board
South Korean students learn to use gas masks earlier this year in case of chemical or biological attacks. The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that any US attempt to destroy it would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too damaging to risk.
South Korean students learn to use gas masks earlier this year in case of chemical or biological attacks. The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that any US attempt to destroy it would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too damaging to risk. LAM YIK FEI NYT
Columbia, SC

When are we going to see stories on the damage nuclear weapons can cause and how many people can be killed at one time? It would also be nice to know if nuclear fallout shelters still exist and, if so, where are they, and what could and could not be brought into fallout shelters?

Costco and Walmart won’t be able to help when your actions in the next 30 minutes will determine whether you live or die.

Mike Frazier

Columbia

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