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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. Could this have been prevented? Could they still be planning existential attacks somewhere?

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Want to know the top three things that scare me?

Disaster Preparedness

Phones are used for extensive tracking in China, including the need to access government resources like healthcare. Unfortunately, we did have self-imposed government shutdowns lasting over what I would deem to be a long period. I have been hearing of them working with and paying North Korea to develop them as far back as late 2001.

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