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If you want a good, full book on nuclear survival, it's worth checking out Cresson H Kearny's book on it from research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I'm not
by brobdingnagians 8y ago
If you want a good, full book on nuclear survival, it's worth checking out Cresson H Kearny's book on it from research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I'm not planning on using any of the information, but it's fairly enjoyable to learn about some of the particulars. It's like thinking of how you would survive a zombie apocalypse. It is fairly optimistic about survival if you aren't in the blast radius and is chock full of useful information, including what sort of attacks would be most likely and what to do in each phase. He makes a real point of saying that it wouldn't be the end of the world and is very survivable; people get a much more depressing and fatalistic view sometimes. Cheer up.
[ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instructions/dp/1634502973?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1634502973 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instruc... ]
- arethuza 8y agoPerhaps fine for a large less densely populated country and small scale attacks. Somewhere like the UK in the early 1980s facing a realistic Soviet attack (e.g. the one that almost happened in Autumn '83) then almost all of the people in this country would have been in serious trouble with little prospect for long term survival. NB The UK government was always rather more "realistic" about the actual impact of a war than the US.
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