Nuclear Threat Preparedness
Jennifer A. Brown
HIS/145
December 12, 2013
Andrea Keefer

Abstract

Preparing for the threat of nuclear attack in itself is a threat, fear, and a form of terrorism. Not knowing each night before going to bed if waking up the next day is an option or safe and out of harm’s way, is atrocious, scary, and not a way anyone would ever be expect to live their life. This should never become a normal way of life. Everyone has a reasonable expectation to always feel safe in their own homes, streets, schools, neighborhoods, where ever they are because this is a civil society and for someone to threaten that way of life is quite breath taking.

Nuclear Threat Preparedness
It is almost unimaginable to think of how people had to feel back then under the constant threat of a nuclear attack. Imagine a government constantly telling its citizens that an attack will probably happen and to be prepared, be prepared, and be prepared. Preparing to die, to live in fear, to think feel the need to always look back over ones shoulder, or to start looking at a neighbor as if they may be the enemy that is a lot of pressure to live under every day. It would be like always having to stop to catch your breath because you are always running frantically in your head all the possibilities of death and survival. As no one wants to die.
Then the guilt of knowing that someone somewhere in another country is being attack by a nuclear weapon like Japan with not one but two atomic bombs. The aftermath had to have been horrible, the fear, the terror, the not knowing what to do and needing more help than most people or countries could offer. Or the genetic deformities of future generations because of levels of radiation exposure. Who can fix that, what can be done to prevent it from happening to future generations, the world must go on, but have these attacks just