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One practical thing you can do is to buy a significant quantity of iodine. If there's a nuclear exchange and fallout one of the big killers will be radioactive

One practical thing you can do is to buy a significant quantity of iodine. If there's a nuclear exchange and fallout one of the big killers will be radioactive iodine that lodges in your thyroid and then kills it. Having a lot of potassium iodide so you can absolutely saturate your thyroid and at least stave off that disaster is fairly easy and fairly cheap. If you live through the first second then you want to have the ability very soon. If you then live through the first month it'll help you make it through the next few years. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/emergencies/ki.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/emergencies/ki.htm

stef25 5y ago
Here in Belgium you can get it free from pharmacies cause they were scared one of our old reactors might malfunction one day. You don't need lots, it's just a small box of pills. It does say that if you're over 40 there's the risk of it messing up your thyroid and you should maybe reconsider. It's especially useful among children. One studied showed that people in parts Belarus that were children when Chernobyl blew up had something like a 30-40% chance to develop cancer.