It’s a story that both is and isn’t news (and that itself is a sign of the times): The New York City Fire Department is preparing for a nuclear attack.

“It’s the training we do that’ll make the difference between who gets saved and who doesn’t get saved,” (Chief Joseph) Pfeifer said at the Council on Foreign Relations on E.68thSt.

The FDNY is particularly concerned about terrorists developing a crude nuclear bomb and detonating it among the skyscrapers in lower Manhattan.

Such an attack would likely result in nearly 225,000 casualties, Pfeifer said.

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“If an improvised nuclear device goes off … it will be horrific, but we can survive,” said Pfeifer.

Well, I got up and walked around
And up and down the lonesome town.
I stood a-wondering which way to go,
I lit a cigarette on a parking meter
And walked on down the road.
It was a normal day.

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