floods happen, tornadoes happen, and even if a limited atomic bomb or two went off people would survive.
But the really worrisome scenario was posited in a war game conducted by Johns Hopkins a couple years ago...
Operation Dark Winter.
more HERE
yes, more first responders are now vaccinated against smallpox and plans are in place to quarantine contacts, but a deliberate or accidental release of smallpox, or the emergence of a new superpathogen or reemergence of an old pathogen that mutates, could be devastating.
that's why docs worry about things like SARS and birdflu...and ebola type viruses getting lose by accident.
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