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A lot has changed in 50years. Number, size, accuracy of weapon impacts. Farming's reliance on mechanization, pesticides, fertilizer. Way more food is manufactur

A lot has changed in 50years. Number, size, accuracy of weapon impacts. Farming's reliance on mechanization, pesticides, fertilizer. Way more food is manufactured/processed. How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit. Transportation changes, trucking vs rail. I'm not sure but the general push for efficiency, JIT warehousing, I wonder if our food stocks on hand is the same. Also, I'm guessing the fall of USSR, rise of Terrorism as new bugaboo. I wonder how much study, effort, and prepardness USA government has put into full scale nuclear war "defense" of late. Population increase.

Roboprog 11y ago
> How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit? A few do. And she/he would have some very motivated students :-) Otherwise, yes, it's kind of fuzzy mapping the situation of the early 70s to the current day.
hga 11y ago
Well, we're also turning a substantial fraction of our corn output into ethanol to burn for fuel. Stop that, and the feed used for animals, factor in a much reduced population, and the numbers probably work out. How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit. That's where things start getting really sticky. Nuclear War Survival Skills has a simple design for a pestle made out of three pipes bound together, in this scenario people are not likely to get anything as refined as flour. Then boil it into porridge.
- lostlogin 11y ago
  If you get fallout into my sough dough starter I'm going to to be pissed. There is a small amount of evidence that brewers yeast may be helpful - mostly from sites like the link below. Simultaneously awful design and alarming advice. Check these highlights. "Apple Pectin Capsules This can force strontium through the body, without its being absorbed. Sunflower Seeds Eat for radiaiton[sic] poisoning. Source of pectin to attract, bind and eliminate radiation from the system." http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/shepherdspurse/archiv10.htm http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/shepherdspurse/archiv10.ht...

Roboprog 11y ago

> How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit? A few do. And she/he would have some very motivated students :-) Otherwise, yes, it's kind of fuzzy mapping the situation of the early 70s to the current day.

hga 11y ago

Well, we're also turning a substantial fraction of our corn output into ethanol to burn for fuel. Stop that, and the feed used for animals, factor in a much reduced population, and the numbers probably work out. How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit. That's where things start getting really sticky. Nuclear War Survival Skills has a simple design for a pestle made out of three pipes bound together, in this scenario people are not likely to get anything as refined as flour. Then boil it into porridge.

lostlogin 11y ago
If you get fallout into my sough dough starter I'm going to to be pissed. There is a small amount of evidence that brewers yeast may be helpful - mostly from sites like the link below. Simultaneously awful design and alarming advice. Check these highlights. "Apple Pectin Capsules This can force strontium through the body, without its being absorbed. Sunflower Seeds Eat for radiaiton[sic] poisoning. Source of pectin to attract, bind and eliminate radiation from the system." http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/shepherdspurse/archiv10.htm http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/shepherdspurse/archiv10.ht...