Day After Disaster (2009 TV Movie) User Reviews

Another repetitive History Channel documentary

[Eradan · 4/10 · 16 October 2010]

I cannot recommend "Day After Disaster" to anyone. The same 5-6 minutes of CGI are used over and over again. This of course is a syndrome viewers familiar with History Channel productions have seen before. There are also long stretches of talking heads delivering the usual stale, Homeland Security talking points. Anyone who has followed mainstream news coverage of the Forever War has heard those before too. At 100 minutes, the whole thing is about twice as long as it needs to be.

DAD is really not worth your time, but if you think you want to see it, then be smart. Save your money and rent it from Netflix. That way the only thing you'll have wasted will be one hour of your time....

Technically Correct with some flaws

[dncorp · 4/10 · 21 August 2017]

First they would have to evade the U.S. N.E.S.T. that have the Full Capabilities of the U.S. to detect, locate, track Radioactive Materials even low radiation medical devices (even a bottle of low level radiation like radioactive iodine).

N.E.S.T. (Nuclear Emergency Search Teams) have existed since 1974, and are now Nuclear Emergency Support Teams (N.E.S.T.).

Second, the nuclear weapon depicted is not shielded from detection, they would not even have gotten anywhere without being detected.

Most of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. "Backpack" nuclear weapons of this Kilo Ton Yield, weight was shielding to avoid detection, as Small Atomic Demolition Munitions (S.A.D.M.), Medium Atomic Demolition Munitions (M.A.D.M), Heavy Atomic Demolition Munitions (H.A.D.M.). U.S. Army Special Forces and a very few U.S. Army Combat Engineers were trained to use these. U.S.S.R. Special Forces, Spetsnaz were trained to used the U.S.S.R. Versions (usually a larger yield).

I was previously trained as a Nuclear Accident Incident Response Assistance (N.A.I.R.A.) Team Leader, Biological Accident Incident Response Assistance (B.A.I.R.A.) Team Member, Chemical Accident Incident Response Assistance (C.A.I.R.A.)Team Member. As the N.E.S.T. would call in N.A.I.R.A. Teams in the event of a Nuclear Accident or Incident or to warn of a possible detonation and to prepare. Like the N.E.S.T. many of the N.A.I.R.A. Team Members were E.O.D. Qualified and equipped especially to render safe nuclear weapons (not like the Movies, in that a State, City, Local Law Enforcement E.O.D. is called in to render safe a nuclear weapon or device).