Colgate study outlines Griffiss blast effects on Rome Utica
Two Colgate physics graduates modeled a 20 megaton nuke over Griffiss Air Base predicting Rome and Utica obliterated with few survivors. Hamilton would face second degree burns and blast winds, while radioactive fallout could spawn lethal doses and a decade of cold, dark summers if a wider war occurs.
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Colgate University
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Neil Roeth
Colgate Journal of the Sciences
Colgate Physics
Victor Old
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Energy Research and Development Administration
Washington, D.C
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Griffiss
Oswego drills for mock nuke disaster plan
Oswego County and New York Power Authority officials will rehearse the annual radiological emergency plan on July 18 at the James A. Fitzpatrick plant. The in-house drill tests communications and siren reliability while avoiding active evacuations and siren use. FEMA approval and NRC observation will shape the final July exercise.
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Margaret Helmke
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Helmke
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Marianne C. Jackson
FEMA
Albany
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Jackson
200000 ham operators join radio emergency test
VENICE At 5 am Sunday Bill Acito Jr. tapped Morse code from a remote hay field 20 miles south of Auburn. About 200000 other amateurs across the United States and Canada joined a 24 hour field day to test emergency procedures. The Auburn Amateur Radio Association acted as the official link during prior ice jam emergencies and coordinates communications for local events like the Cayuga County disaster office Great Race triathlon.
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Office of Emergency Preparedness
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Auburn Amateur Radio Association
America
United States
Canada
Cayuga County
Wegmans proposal sparks neighborhood battle in Hookway tract
Neighbors oppose Wegmans store plans on Hookway tract now zoned Residential A-1. The firm says an extensive environmental impact study will be filed, while opponents organize with attorney Grossman and the Alliance for the Preservation of Neighborhoods to push their own analysis and hearings.
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Wegmans
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Grossman
The
Alliance For the Preservation of Neighborhoods
Alliance
Langan, Grossman, Kinney & Dwyer
James
Decision on home for new Army division at Fort Drum
Fort Drum faces a decision in two to three weeks on choosing a home for the new 16,000 plus infantry division with a late August target seen as optimistic by assistant Army secretary Pringle P. Hillier. He toured Drum and said split stationing could cut costs but training and command control favor a single site, with Drum needing up to a billion dollars in upgrades if the full division arrives there.
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North Country
Antwerp pair charged in theft of machine gun
Two young men from Antwerp were jailed in Jefferson County after arrests on multiple counts connected to the alleged theft of a machine gun and other military gear from Fort Drum. Arland Hall, 17, held without bail for two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and weapons charges. Michael A. Laverghetta Jr., 20, held on $5,000 bail for weapons possession and grand larceny.
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Arland Hall
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Hall
Michael A. Laverghetta Jr
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