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Most important step they missed was you probably don't want to be anywhere near NYC during a nuclear confrontation.

delecti 4y ago
Even discounting the broader metro, there are almost 9 million people living in NYC. It's unlikely that any meaningful fraction of them could possibly get out in the time between learning we were in a nuclear confrontation, and the first consequences of that confrontation for NYC.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  > It's unlikely that any meaningful fraction of them could possibly get out in the time between learning we were in a nuclear confrontation, and the first consequences of that confrontation for NYC. I imagine it's very likely the two would happen simultaneously.
- ohiovr 4y ago
  The NYC is telling people to get inside and pray to their "neon god". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xWCJAtz3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xWCJAtz3U If most people believe, then traffic might not be impossibly bad.
  - delecti 4y ago
    > If most people believe, then traffic might not be impossibly bad. In that case, a meaningful fraction definitely wouldn't get out, because they wouldn't even be trying to.
mdeck_ 4y ago
I’m not sure how it could possibly be useful to anyone to hear that they shouldn’t be in the place where a nuclear explosion occurs.
bpodgursky 4y ago
New York is actually surprisingly uninteresting as a military target. You'd glass it if you were trying to kill US logistical capacity of course, but if you were trying to neuter a second-strike, you wouldn't really bother.
- crmd 4y ago
  Port Newark is a primary industrial target, and the large cluster of defense contractors in northern NJ are a primary counterforce target. Unfortunately the fallout plumes from the Jersey targets covers all 5 boroughs.
groby_b 4y ago
As a child of the 80's - that's probably where you want to be. Right in the epicenter, if you can make it. At least it'll be over quick. I'm fairly certain that's preferable to the scenarios survivors of a large scale nuclear exchange will face in the weeks, months, and years after.

Even discounting the broader metro, there are almost 9 million people living in NYC. It's unlikely that any meaningful fraction of them could possibly get out in the time between learning we were in a nuclear confrontation, and the first consequences of that confrontation for NYC.

SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
> It's unlikely that any meaningful fraction of them could possibly get out in the time between learning we were in a nuclear confrontation, and the first consequences of that confrontation for NYC. I imagine it's very likely the two would happen simultaneously.
ohiovr 4y ago
The NYC is telling people to get inside and pray to their "neon god". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xWCJAtz3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xWCJAtz3U If most people believe, then traffic might not be impossibly bad.
- delecti 4y ago
  > If most people believe, then traffic might not be impossibly bad. In that case, a meaningful fraction definitely wouldn't get out, because they wouldn't even be trying to.

mdeck_ 4y ago

I’m not sure how it could possibly be useful to anyone to hear that they shouldn’t be in the place where a nuclear explosion occurs.

bpodgursky 4y ago

New York is actually surprisingly uninteresting as a military target. You'd glass it if you were trying to kill US logistical capacity of course, but if you were trying to neuter a second-strike, you wouldn't really bother.

crmd 4y ago
Port Newark is a primary industrial target, and the large cluster of defense contractors in northern NJ are a primary counterforce target. Unfortunately the fallout plumes from the Jersey targets covers all 5 boroughs.

groby_b 4y ago

As a child of the 80's - that's probably where you want to be. Right in the epicenter, if you can make it. At least it'll be over quick. I'm fairly certain that's preferable to the scenarios survivors of a large scale nuclear exchange will face in the weeks, months, and years after.