In Chapter 10 of Having Your Say, the “A, but B statement” is introduced as a way of stating your goal and what is blocking your goal from being achieved. For my topic on the threat of RDDs, I have created two such statements to clarify the overall goals of my risk communication and what is hindering the process.

 1.) The federal government should find different ways to provide information on the threat of RDDs to the those who live in areas that are at risk of being attacked by such a device, but it is difficult to do so because of other sources that provide inaccurate information and who are more trusted by the public than the government.

2.) The federal government should re-develop plans that pertain to the handling of the aftermath of an RDD attack, especially those plans about overflow at hospitals and economic disruption, but the elected portion of the government has no incentive to do so since the public does not demand it and is more concerned about other issues.