If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.