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Phew, my country seems mostly intact. If you're sufficiently far from a major city or a base, you should be fairly safe. Although getting food could be a proble

Phew, my country seems mostly intact. If you're sufficiently far from a major city or a base, you should be fairly safe. Although getting food could be a problem in the long-term if nuclear winter sets in, which seems uncertain based on what I've read.

admissionsguy 4y ago
> Although getting food could be a problem in the long-term if nuclear winter sets in, which seems uncertain based on what I've read. I would worry more about the severance of supply chains if your country/region imports much of its food.
- RivieraKid 4y ago
  This is an easy problem compared to a nuclear winter. But this depends on the country of course.
pmoriarty 4y ago
"If you're sufficiently far from a major city or a base, you should be fairly safe." You have to be far from missile launch sites too, which tend to be scattered over many remote areas. Hydroelectric dams, power stations are also likely to get hit, so say goodbye to electricity. Say goodbye to modern medicine too, as pharmaceutical plants will not function without power, working supply chains and a skilled population to staff them. So anyone who depends on modern medicine (like blood pressure medication, dialysis, etc) to survive is going to be dead. Antibiotics will quickly run out, and so even minor infections that are treatable today will become life-threatening. Hospitals will be completely overwhelmed (if they survive at all), so say goodbye to hospital care for any serious conditions. Childbirth will go back to the stone age, and child mortality will skyrocket. You'd also have to survive the fallout... water's going to be unsafe to drink pretty much anywhere as it'll be contaminated and water treatment plants are unlikely to survive either. The fields will be contaminated with fallout, all the animals are likely to die. You'll likely die of starvation or thirst unless you're a survivalist who happens to be in their bunker when the nukes hit (because there's unlikely to be any warning)... even then, how long is their food and water going to last? The handful of survivors unlucky enough to live through a nuclear war will emerge on to a world devastated on a scale that's beyond imagining. Most of them would probably rather be dead, and the suicide rate among survivors will likely be high.

admissionsguy 4y ago

> Although getting food could be a problem in the long-term if nuclear winter sets in, which seems uncertain based on what I've read. I would worry more about the severance of supply chains if your country/region imports much of its food.

RivieraKid 4y ago
This is an easy problem compared to a nuclear winter. But this depends on the country of course.

pmoriarty 4y ago

"If you're sufficiently far from a major city or a base, you should be fairly safe." You have to be far from missile launch sites too, which tend to be scattered over many remote areas. Hydroelectric dams, power stations are also likely to get hit, so say goodbye to electricity. Say goodbye to modern medicine too, as pharmaceutical plants will not function without power, working supply chains and a skilled population to staff them. So anyone who depends on modern medicine (like blood pressure medication, dialysis, etc) to survive is going to be dead. Antibiotics will quickly run out, and so even minor infections that are treatable today will become life-threatening. Hospitals will be completely overwhelmed (if they survive at all), so say goodbye to hospital care for any serious conditions. Childbirth will go back to the stone age, and child mortality will skyrocket. You'd also have to survive the fallout... water's going to be unsafe to drink pretty much anywhere as it'll be contaminated and water treatment plants are unlikely to survive either. The fields will be contaminated with fallout, all the animals are likely to die. You'll likely die of starvation or thirst unless you're a survivalist who happens to be in their bunker when the nukes hit (because there's unlikely to be any warning)... even then, how long is their food and water going to last? The handful of survivors unlucky enough to live through a nuclear war will emerge on to a world devastated on a scale that's beyond imagining. Most of them would probably rather be dead, and the suicide rate among survivors will likely be high.