What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]
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#2Here's a modern version
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lie-down-try-not-to-cry-cry-a...
In all seriousness, in a true nuclear disaster the survivors will envy the dead.
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#3This reminded me of the better documentary films I have seen, The Atomic Cafe (1982).
It is a well-crafted film, with a neat-o formal technique of only using found footage/ audio to describe the history of US atomic-age propaganda.
More interestingly to me, it offers a useful commentary about the contradictions between the use of media to present nuclear wars a survivable and possibly necessary event but simultaneously an existential threat that requires the total resources of the state to avoid. The ending of the film seems especially useful as footage of naive "duck and cover" drills is juxtaposed with (legitimately terrifying) images of actual bomb blasts.
I think, in general, it recalled this bit: "Christopher Isherwood gave expression to this unreality of the American daily life, exemplified in the motel room: "American motels are unreal! /.../ they are deliberately designed to be unreal. /.../ The Europeans hate us because we've retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate.""
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#4Controversial take, but I'm going to be pretty upset if there is a global thermonuclear war and we all die, I am not going to sugar coat it.
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#5I suppose this is of special interest now since Poland, a NATO member, got hit by what sounds like an errant missile from Russia recently. [1]
Reading the first part, I think the best thing that could happen in the event some big red buttons get pushed is that if you're next to a military base you're probably going to be vaporized along with it if you can't evacuate. Trying to survive that kind of thing sounds way worse.
Was nice knowing everyone!
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/russia-poland-missi...
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#6Here's a modern version https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lie-down-try-not-to-cry-cry-a... In all seriousness, in a true nuclear disaster the survivors will envy the dead.
Not most of the dead though, one certainly wouldn’t envy the guy that died an hour ago after days of radiation poisoning or starvation.
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#7Interesting, but no thank you. I consider myself lucky to be living around one of the largest nuclear stockpiles on the planet. Huge target for the enemies. So, if nuclear attack is imminent, I would likely not even feel my body disintegrating. I'm more worried about the survivors.
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#8Interesting, but no thank you. I consider myself lucky to be living around one of the largest nuclear stockpiles on the planet. Huge target for the enemies. So, if nuclear attack is imminent, I would likely not even feel my body disintegrating. I'm more worried about the survivors.
I'm with you. My plan for surviving the apocalypse is not to.
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#9Controversial take, but I'm going to be pretty upset if there is a global thermonuclear war and we all die, I am not going to sugar coat it.
You'll be upset, I'll be frantically filling my bathtub and water mattress with potable water—we are not the same
Re: What to do if a nuclear disaster is imminent [pdf]
#10Controversial take, but I'm going to be pretty upset if there is a global thermonuclear war and we all die, I am not going to sugar coat it.
You'll be upset, I'll be frantically filling my bathtub and water mattress with potable water—we are not the same
Great more water for the raiders when they bash down your door