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I wonder if silicon valley has any bunkers? Surviving a nuclear attack is doable, provided you are: Outside the flash zone Outside the shockwave / concussion
by mothsonasloth 8y ago
I wonder if silicon valley has any bunkers?
Surviving a nuclear attack is doable, provided you are:
Outside the flash zone
Outside the shockwave / concussion area
Sheltered from fallout radiation
Have access to a constant source of uncontaminated water
Can survive the following saturation nuclear attacks (from SS18s etc)
Able to survive the civil unrest
Disease
Dwindling food source
Have I missed anything?
- thomaslutz 8y agoFormatting.
- Gibbon1 8y ago> silicon valley has any bunkers? Maybe. During the cold war most people in the valley assumed they would die immediately if there was a nuclear war.
- VLM 8y agoThose factories supplying America's war machines are now all in China, I wonder if SV is off the target list now. Certainly hitting Oshkosh Wisconsin or Lima Ohio would damage the countries military capabilities vastly worse than hitting SV today.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoAs the OP points out, there might be one or two issues with morale too.
- sdrothrock 8y ago> Sheltered from fallout radiation It might be included in this, but you'd also want to have an air supply isolated from fallout.
- brohee 8y agoFiltering air intake thru a HEPA filter is plenty good enough, fallout is dust.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoBunkers are the first things to be hit I would imagine.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoMilitary bunkers, perhaps. Your bunker in your back yard? Not so much.
- VLM 8y agoMinor quibble, the most likely "nuclear attack" is something like 9/11 by an enormously high factor. Very difficult to survive if you worked early shift in the towers in NYC, pretty easy to survive if you live in Silicon Valley, and most of the long term social problems were pretty indirect (dead and PTSD military personnel, political destruction of unrelated countries in the middle east, economic damage from the wars, security theater in airports, etc).
- qubax 8y agoI agree. Surviving a nuclear attack isn't the problem. That's just simply a matter of luck of where you are at the time of the attacks. Surviving the aftermath would require blood, sweat and tears. When civilization ends and humans are thrust back into subsistence living, we are essentially back to tribalistic animals having to endure rampant starvation and disease. Life is going to be hard for everyone, but especially those without tight groups/tribes and without arms.