The US just spent $290 million on anti-radiation pills used to 'save lives following nuclear emergencies'
By: RYAN HOGG
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The US just spent $290 million on anti-radiation pills used to 'save lives following nuclear emergencies'
President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 2022. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File
The US spent $290 million on anti-radiation pills to save lives after a "nuclear emergency".
The US Department for Health and Human Services said the purchase was part of a "long-standing program"
The US just spent $290 million on anti-radiation pills used to "save lives following radiation and nuclear emergencies".
The US Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday it had bought a supply of the drug Nplate from Amgen USA Inc. as part of a "long-standing program" of emergency preparedness using authority and funds provided under the 2004 Project Bioshield Act .
Nplate is designed to treat patients suffering from acute radiation syndrome (ARS), which occurs when a person's entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating radiation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds, per HHS.
The drug stimulates the body's production of platelets, fighting symptoms of ARS which include uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding due to a loss of those platelets.
Declining to confirm to Reuters whether the purchase was linked to escalating rhetoric by Russia, an HHS spokesperson said it was "part of ongoing efforts to prepare for a wide range of threats including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and emerging infectious diseases."
Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated threats to use nuclear weapons as he announced a partial mobilization of troops in late September.
The US has repeatedly said there is no evidence that Russia is planning to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine or its allies , accusing Putin of "saber-rattling." But CIA director William Burns told CBS News said it was "very hard to say" whether Putin was bluffing about using the weapons.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the BBC on Friday that Russia was "preparing their society" for nuclear war, but that "Putin is not ready to do it."
There are fears that Putin could use smaller tactical nuclear weapons in response to the slowing of Russia's progress in its invasion of Ukraine, heightened by a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the last month .
US President Joe Biden said he didn't think Putin was joking when he made those threats, adding he didn't think there was a way to use tactical nuclear weapons and not have it result in "armageddon."
"We have not faced the prospect of armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis," the president said.
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And since he said that, and ordered the pills, Biden is indicating that America is facing the prospect of armageddon now. Putin has painted himself into a corner, and he's desperate and probably unbalanced and with what America is pouring into Ukraine to maintain the conflict Putin sees this as a proxy war with the USA, so nobody should be surprised of the need for the pills (after 18 years of not doing it). Maybe Biden will instruct the schools to again start the students practising hiding under their desks, and it could be a good time to invest in construction companies that construct bomb and fallout shelters.
Previously, I've said that history has already established that the only thing that will really unite Americans is an invasion of the USA. Biden may see that scaring people with the threat is a good way to unite the voters for the purposes of the midterm elections.
Anti radiation pills. What a great waste of US taxpayer money.
You just described Fallout the game series.
All that is needed to hire the company that constructs the shelters to come up with a bunch of experiments to conduct on it's future dwellers.
The Biden administration must have a lot of avid players; or maybe their children are?
I am sure an end of the planet nuclear war will be exactly like the Fallout games./s
I don't know anything about the Fallout game series. Never heard of it.
"Biden may see that scaring people with the threat is a good way to unite the voters for the purposes of the midterm elections."
He's uniting them, alright.