US: FEMA, Homeland Security Plan for the Worst

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security are conducting emergency response drills at MetLife Stadium in northern New Jersey to make sure the New York City area is prepared in the event of a nuclear attack.

Dubbed "Operation Gotham Shield," the simulation aims to determine how best to evaluate, treat and transport people who are injured in the event that a 10,000-ton improvised nuclear weapon is deployed on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel, which connects the town of Weehawken to Midtown Manhattan.

Emergency management organizations in New Jersey and New York are also taking part in the drills, which will span several days and are being held about 15 minutes from Manhattan in the city of East Rutherford.

"Today's large scale exercise focused on multiple emergency response agencies coming together from multiple...