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Because they're too busy apprehending innocent people with the wrong ethnic background, or people wearing the wrong clothes?
Mawk, you are America's best friend-- paranoid and ready to consume like mad out of fear. If it ever gets to the point where one of our nations is to be bombed, you will have no control over whether you live or die. You can't survive an atom bomb.
I think the best way to prevent your death is to elect officials who will ensure that the job is done right so as to prevent tensions between countries from escalating, thereby causing a situation in which nukes might be used. As for preparing for the actual bombing. . . I don't think there's anything I would do besides get the hell out of the U.S. Other than that, I would really just want to be around people I feel comfortable with.
Duck and cover. . . as if.
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In a survival situation, you DO have a choice over whether you live or die. Survival IS a choice.
I'm not Americas' best friend because I don't live in America. I'm not paranoid either. I am not poised to consume like mad out of fear. And the fact that you've somehow come to the conclusion that I'm paranoid just because I stated how I would go about surviving in an imaginary for instance scenario, tells me that you aren't very perceptive to the reality of this discussion.
I was actually talking about hypothetical methods for surviving long enough through nuclear fallout to be able to form an escape plan. Obviously if I was within a 20 mile radius of the actual site of impact/detonation while the reaction was occuring, then I would die. But I don't live in a place which stands any chance of being considered a good target for a nuke. Nukes are expensive and nigh on impossible to detonate in a western nation due to intelligence and the like, thus it is more likely that I will only be effected if I am downwind of a nuclear explosion.
At no point did I say that I'm waiting and ready to hop out of my seat and panic buy army surplus NBC suits, rations and gasmasks at the slightest sign of terrorism. Don't take things so literally.