If A Nuclear Bomb Explodes In Your City These Are The Emergency Supplies You Should Have

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The Independent: If a nuclear bomb explodes, these are the emergency supplies you should have prepared or grab on the run

If a nuclear bomb were to hit, these are the items should should keep to hand.

North Korea on Tuesday reportedly launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile — a rocket capable of travelling more than 3,400 miles with a weapon on top. The feat suggests that the isolated country, one of nine nations that together wield more than 14,900 nukes, could strike Alaska.

However, the rest of the US faces a much different and shadowy nuclear threat: a terrorist-caused nuclear detonation, which is one of 15 disasters scenarios that the federal government has planned for — just in case.

"National Planning Scenario No. 1 is a 10-kiloton nuclear detonation in a modern US city," Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider. "A 10-kiloton nuclear detonation is equivalent to 5,000 Oklahoma City bombings. Though we call it 'low yield,' it's a pretty darn big explosion."

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Update: If a nuclear bomb explodes, these are the emergency supplies you should have prepared or grab on the run (Yahoo News/Business Insider)

WNU Editor: In Canada I am always stocked up that can always be used for any emergency .... nuclear attack, earthquake, etc.. In my Moscow condo .... a bomb shelter that is two buildings away is all that I have.