Washington is headed for disaster: Column

By: American Decency Staff

I've just finished reading Bill Quick's new disaster novel, Lightning Fall, and it's got me thinking about national disasters, and what to do about them.

In Quick's novel, the United States is targeted by three nuclear devices, from an unknown enemy. The West Coast gets hit by a high-altitude nuclear blast whose electromagnetic pulse (EMP) wipes out electronics and electrical power, causing millions to die from a lack of food, as transport breaks down, and a lack of water, as the pumps shut down. A nuclear weapon smuggled into the Port Of New Orleans closes down shipping along the Mississippi, causing still more human and economic devastation. And a bomb targeted at Washington, D.C., causes the greatest harm of all, by — well, we'll get to that in a minute.

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