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Over the past two years, Los Angeles County emergency responders have been quietly preparing for a massively bad scenario: explosion of a 10-kiloton "improvised nuclear device" in the San Fernando Valley. The preparations culminated in a series of meetings and simulation exercises this past summer under the banner of Operation Golden Phoenix. The results are in. A lot was learned, and they are now more ready than before the training. From the latest Government Technology magazine: