really neither. Hollywood likes to portray these dog-eat-dog lone ranger scenarios, but the reality is people band together. A good many major cities would be

really neither. Hollywood likes to portray these dog-eat-dog lone ranger scenarios, but the reality is people band together. A good many major cities would be decimated, but even just an hours drive away you'd be mostly fine, at least after a week or two when the fallout has fallen out. I don't mean to downplay an all-out nuclear exchange as no big deal, obviously it would be an even worse disaster than ww2 etc, but it wouldn't end civilization let alone all life.