"Gary L. Nunn" wrote:

> http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058745

>From the article:

> The Nuclear Emergency Search Team. President Gerald Ford
> created this special response team following a 1974
> nuclear extortion hoax in Boston. NEST consists of roughly
> 1,000 Energy Department physicists, engineers, and computer
> programmers who have volunteered for training. NEST members,
> who are on 24/seven call, are scattered around the country.
> In the event of an emergency, NEST can mobilize a team
> within four hours. (NESTers are unarmed; the FBI or
> commandos carry the iron.) 

Cool! A techie militia... :-)
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