Homemade Nukes: How Safe Are You?

"A panel of medical experts has just released its assessment of the technologies and therapies that could be rolled out if a home-made nuclear bomb was ever detonated in the heart of an American city." The main therapy they seem to advocate here is "cowering in the basement," so I'm not exactly optimistic. I can barely even get down there to do the laundry; can you imagine what it would be like after a nuke?
