Dr. Jeffrey Simmons shares nuclear disaster tips and prepper secrecy.

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Transcript Ryan Wrecker: Welcome back to The Tara Show. I'm Ryan Wrecker, filling in. And feel free to, uh, send us a good old text message, but we're going to talk more with Dr. Jeffrey Simmons. You know, even looking at some of the recent news stories, and we're currently involved with Iran, and the whole idea was they were so close to developing this nuclear weapon that would have been used, certainly, either on us or an ally. So, the whole premise of it is, there's agencies search and governments out there that not only have the capabilities explicitly in technology, but they are maybe actively racing to try to get to that point, which makes books like this very relevant. And I think about, too, I've—I've heard certain things, and it's so interesting on the FEMA side, because I know you have experience talking to different governors and emergency response teams and managers. I heard that, let's say—and maybe you can confirm or deny this—let's say, even if you're not within the immediate blast zone, but you're within eye's reach where you can actually see a mushroom cloud, the first thing you're supposed to do is take off all your clothes and try to wash your body immediately if there's any sort of residue or radiation that may have gotten on your clothes. What—what—so that's the first thing I've heard you should do. I like how you say, "Okay, don't rush out of the city immediately because you're going to be stuck in a jam and it's going to be worse for you." Tell me, what should you do? Like, what are the things that you should do? Dr. Jeffrey Simmons: Okay, it depends a lot on where you are, just in general. Are you near your home? Are you in your home? Uh, you know, are you far from your home? Yeah, you have to get those clothes off, and there's some modesty issue here, but your life could be in jeopardy. Maybe you have to work out something with that. But you have to get those clothes off, and you have to wash down. So hopefully, you're in your home, or close enough, or a friend or neighbor's home—wash off, stay put. The same thing with pets. If you bring pets in, you've got to wash them off as well. They have the same problem you do. Uh, so that's a major issue. There's a little bit of debate whether you should cool water or warm water. I recommend cold water, uh, partly because you don't want anything dilating on—on your skin and absorbing anything, but certainly not hot water. And, uh, and thoroughly, just wash off. You know, they'll set up, um—FEMA will set up these kind of systems where you can be washed off, but that's days if not weeks away, especially given that scenario. And, you know, they'll give you paper clothes. You take clothes off at one end, you get paper clothes at the other. But you're in your neighborhood or something. You've got to get this off of you, and you've got to get away from it, and you've got to get inside. And don't be staring at this blast, cause you could be permanently blinded. And watch out for stuff falling from buildings, and keep in mind also—this is a small fact, but true—anything that's coming down from a building, if it's five stories tall, it might fall the same distance the building is as it's coming down. So just—like walking down through Seattle, in some of the big cities where on the West Coast where there's earthquake territory, if it's rattling and you're next to a high-rise, you better run like crazy, because that can come down the same size it is. But anyway, you're talking nuclear blast. So you've got to stay put for 24 to 48 hours. You should have, uh, prepared this. You should have, you know, food that won't spoil, uh, stored away. You should have one gallon of water per person per day. It's hard to do with a big family, a lot of stuff to carry and weigh—weigh a lot. But you should have that. You should have a radio that you can listen to—listen to with a transistor, uh, that's a transistor radio or a—some mechanism to listen, because TV and radio and power m ...

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