Unreasonable Software - Protecting Your Family From a Terrorist Nuke

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Protecting Your Family From a Terrorist Nuke

Nashua, N.H. -- April 24, 2002 -- You're at home watching TV, after dinner. The screen turns to static and the sky lights up. A nuclear weapon has just exploded. Should you run for the basement or head for the car? If you take shelter, when is it safe to come out? Is there anything you could have done to make your family safer other than moving to Tuktoyaktuk? Responding to public concern over the threat of terrorist weapons of mass destruction, Unreasonable Software, Inc. announced Fallout Shelter^TM today, the first consumer software for nuclear attack preparedness. Available in May through unreasonable.com, Fallout Shelter for Palm OS^® will sell for US $28.95. Windows^®, Pocket PC^®, and Macintosh^® versions are slated for release in the third quarter of 2002.

Fallout Shelter uses the best unclassified data available to predict the magnitude, timing, and implications of over 150 nuclear effects on people, property, and livestock in the vicinity of a burst. Users can then make informed preparations to reduce the impact of likely attacks on their family, business, or community.

When a nuclear weapon explodes, a shock wave is formed which can hurl bodies and level buildings. If the burst occurs near the ground, the point of contact is vaporized. In or over water, massive waves swell. Thermal radiation can cause fires, retinal scarring, flash blindness, and burns. The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) emitted from a nuclear burst disrupts electrical and electronic equipment. Nuclear radiation can lead to radiation sickness, cancer, leukemia, sterility, genetic defects, etc.

Although the risk of a global nuclear war may seem slight thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat of a terrorist attack or regional war going nuclear is real, and rising. Last month, leaders of the US intelligence community appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence attested to this danger.

"The globalization of technology and information — especially regarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and advanced conventional weapons — will increasingly accord smaller states, groups, and individuals access to destructive capabilities previously limited to major world powers," said Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). "Massive destructive technologies in the hands of 'evil doers' is my worst fear."

CIA Director George J. Tenet testified, "We also believe that Bin Ladin was seeking to acquire or develop a nuclear device. Al-Qa'ida may be pursuing a radioactive dispersal device -- what some call a 'dirty bomb.'" He then expressed concern that a conventional war between India and Pakistan could escalate into a nuclear exchange.

Increasing the danger, Russian weapons-grade nuclear material has been stolen, according to a recent CIA report. Low pay and poor living conditions for Russian nuclear personnel may lead to future thefts.

For more information, see http://www.unreasonable.com/products.htm.

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