The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

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

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

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