- 10 Aug 2022 21:37
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When I was 16 or 17 (it was about a million years ago), I read Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War.
Nukes have more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
Which is the sole reason there has never been a nuclear war, you know, with guys throwing thousands of nukes at each other. Would you do it, knowing your country would be basically dead manana?
The government used to do war simulations. People almost always did everything they could to stop it. The stress was so high one guy died from a heart attack in the middle of it.
You can see that in the history, as well.
Anyway, you know how nuke bomb shelters were popular back then. They didn't work. There were a bunch of reasons why, but to live through it in an underground shelter you had to be far enough from the blast site that you had a decent chance of surviving in a cellar.
I can go over the details, basically none protected you from superheated gas, or had radiation filters, or if the blast dropped tons of debris on the door to get out. There's more, but you get the idea.
One guy said that "The living would envy the dead." Which is pretty obvious, if you make the mistake of thinking about it. Food, health care, transportation, they would disappear as the roads clog, everyone tries to escape, and stores get emptied.
I used to talk about this in another forum. Preppers think they are smart, but if you prep for one type of disaster, there's usually a few others that can kill you. One guy lived on a lake, and was ready for lots. But if the Yellowstone caldera blew, he would die.
I digress.
Let's just say it would suck to be you.
Facts have a well known liberal bias