Can you Imagine the Reaction if the Prior Adminstration Had Floated This Thought??

U.S. Rethinks Strategy for the UnthinkableBy WILLIAM J. BROAD


Published: December 15, 2010 NYTimes

Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe.
 
The advice is based on recent scientific analyses showing that a nuclear attack is much more survivable if you immediately shield yourself from the lethal radiation that follows a blast, a simple tactic seen as saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Even staying in a car, the studies show, would reduce casualties by more than 50 percent; hunkering down in a basement would be better by far.

But a problem for the Obama administration is how to spread the word without seeming alarmist about a subject that few politicians care to consider, let alone discuss. So officials are proceeding gingerly in a campaign to educate the public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/science/16terror.html?hp

I think I know how my non-conservative  friends and  family would have reacted - boy how they must miss Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld........