NYC PSA about nuclear attack preparedness raises eyebrows
CBSN
New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats - severe weather, public health, mass shootings. But a new PSA on surviving a nuclear attack has rattled some cages.
Released this week by the city's emergency management agency, the 90-second video opens on a computer-generated street, devoid of life. Damaged skyscrapers can be seen in the background.
Looking into the camera, a spokesperson says: "So there's been a nuclear attack. Don't ask me how or why. Just know that the big one has hit."
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.