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Nothing wrong with being a little prepared... But wrapping your entire house?
I lived in Germany in the Mid 80s. When Chernobyl went up in a radioactive cloud some of that radiation moved as far west as France. Where we were in Germany we tested the High School's ventilation filters and they were 47 times normal. It took months of cleaning public facilities, plenty of rain storms, and lots of testing before our area was considered marginally safe.
There are so many potential variables IF something were to happen that wrapping a room in plastic will probably do no good. If practical you need to exit the area and stay upwind, like Fishpart said.
One part of me says to have a little faith in the officials and I do trust our guys overseas like Slip says. But having lived under different terrorist threats from a different class of terrorist when living in Europe, thinking worst case scenarios or even considering how to carry them out is really easy. So in the best of circumstances, it "could" still be easy for a terrorist to get away with attacks. That's one thing that really peeves me about the news media. They go out of their way to come up with scenarios and maybe even inadvertantly shown the bad guys a trick or too....
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