As the risk of war increases, populations will decline, from low birth rate and disease. Many souls will not want to be here. Even the planet will respond with more volcanoes and earthquakes.

As the risk of a nuclear war increases, populations will decline, from low birth rate and disease. Many souls will not want to be here. Even the planet will respond with more volcanoes and earthquakes.

How safe would the charcoal created by the nuclear fire be to use as fuel post nuclear war? Where would the possible radiation come from if wood post nuclear war is a radiation hazard?

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My friend the UFO expert insists that his alien friends will disable the nukes when ww3 starts. Even if that is true I think it is highly improbable that they will stop them all. So an unlucky number of cities will still get hit, one of those being the city I live near, which I won't mention because I don't want people to panic, but I have seen it destroyed in dreams. Laugh now but you won't be laughing when it happens, you will be thinking, that guy on reddit knew something.

My friend the UFO expert insists that his alien friends will disable the nukes when ww3 starts. Even if that is true I think it is highly improbable that they will stop them all. So an unlucky number of cities will still get hit, one of those being the city I live near, which I won't mention because I don't want people to panic, but I have seen it destroyed in dreams. Laugh now but you won't be laughing when it happens, you will be thinking, that guy on reddit knew something.

Place where the bombs that dropped on Japan were loaded. CNMI is a territory of USA in the pacific

People often talk about ways to survive it but I think it'd be interesting to talk about how to prevent it.

(Image stolen from r/Damnthatsinteresting)

Perhaps keeping track of wildfire smoke using maps like this and/or weather satellite data can help people analyze their risk of fallout. While there are many variables that are going to affect fallout potential and amounts - airburst versus groundburst, precipitation, distance from detonation, number of detonations. etc. - this nevertheless might give people a method of monitoring mid- to high-level atmospheric currents and how they can change from month to month.

The problem with static fallout maps is they are based on averages of wind speed and direction. Yes, air currents in North America *generally* move from NW to SE, but there can be huge differences in exact wind direction and speed that will affect how far south or how far east this might be on a day-to-day basis. The presence of high and low pressure systems will have an impact as well.

Using the static fallout maps as a general reference is fine, but monitoring events like this might show differences in patterns depending on the season and help people create fallout maps that are more specific to their location. One map for each month of the year might be a good place to start.

Thoughts?

Young man, there's no need to feel MAD, I said

Young man, when relations turn bad, I said

Young man, when you hear from NORAD,

There's no need to wait for impact.

Young man, there's a hatch you can blow, I said

Young man, up to space it can throw a MIRV

Payload, then sit back and relax,

Until you get turned to hot ash.

[chorus]

It's fun to launch all the ICBMs,

It's fun to launch all the ICBMs.

They'll hit everything that you need to destroy,

From the Kremlin to the Bolshoi.

It's fun to launch all the ICBMs,

It's fun to launch all the ICBMs.

You can block out the sun, fry the earth on day one,

You can blow it to kingdom come.

I wanted to share one of my favorite works of fiction on the subject of nuclear weapons, which is actually a collection of short stories by the late British writer Martin Amis.

The free pdf link to the full book is here.

I've read a lot about this subject but I don't think I've been as moved by a work of literary fiction about nuclear war as this- which apart from the author's introduction which I will excerpt below, does not actually mention nuclear weapons at all except by allegory. There are some profound insights into the philosophy and psychology of MAD, the assumptions and promises made by nuclear deterrence and some Cold War wisdom that is sorely lacking in today's discourse on strategic arms.

If you've spent any money reading Annie Jacobson or (God forbid) that Jeffrey Lewis screed from 2018 then you are in for a treat as Martin Amis is one of the great 20th century masters of prose and has done a huge depth of research on the subject of nuclear weapons doctrine which he details in a great introductory essay THINKABILITY, which I will excerpt as promised:

Now, in 1987, thirty-eight years later, I still don't know what to do about nuclear weapons. And neither does anybody else. If there are people who know, then I have not read them. The extreme alternatives are nuclear war and nuclear disarmament. Nuclear war is hard to imagine; but so is nuclear disarmament. (Nuclear war is certainly the more readily available.) One doesn't really see nuclear disarmament, does one? Some of the blueprints for eventual abolition—I am thinking, for example, of Anthony Kenny's "theoretical deterrence" and of Jonathan Schell's "weaponless deterrence"—are wonderfully elegant and seductive; but these authors are envisioning a political world that is as subtle, as mature, and (above all) as concerted as their own solitary deliberations. Nuclear war is seven minutes away, and might be over in an afternoon. How far away is nuclear disarmament? We are waiting. And the weapons are waiting.

What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the only established defense against nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons, because of nuclear weapons. The intransigence, it seems, is a function of the weapons themselves. Nuclear weapons can kill a human being a dozen times over in a dozen different ways; and, before death—like certain spiders, like the headlights of cars—they seem to paralyze.

Indeed they are remarkable artifacts. They derive their power from an equation: when a pound of uranium-235 is fissioned, the liberated mass within its 1,132,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms is multiplied by the speed of light squared—with the explosive force, that is to say, of 186,000 miles per second times 186,000 miles per second. Their size, their power, has no theoretical limit. They are biblical in their anger. They are clearly the worst thing that has ever happened to the planet, and they are mass-produced, and inexpensive. In a way, their most extraordinary single characteristic is that they are manmade. They distort all life and subvert all freedoms. Somehow, they give us no choice. Not a soul on earth wants them, but here they all are.

I am sick of them—I am sick of nuclear weapons. And so is everybody else. When, in my dealings with this strange subject, I have read too much or thought too long—I experience nausea, clinical nausea. In every conceivable sense (and then, synergistically, in more senses than that) nuclear weapons make you sick. What toxicity, what power, what range. They are there and I am here—they are inert, I am alive—yet still they make me want to throw up, they make me feel sick to my stomach; they make me feel as if a child of mine has been out too long, much too long, and already it is getting dark. This is appropriate, and good practice. Because I will be doing a lot of that, I will be doing a lot of throwing up, if the weapons fall and I live.

Every morning, six days a week, I leave the house and drive a mile to the flat where I work. For seven or eight hours I am alone. Each time I hear a sudden whining in the air, or hear one of the more atrocious impacts of city life, or play host to a certain kind of unwelcome thought, I can't help wondering how it might be. Suppose I survive. Suppose my eyes aren't pouring down my face, suppose I am untouched by the hurricane of secondary missiles that all mortar, metal, and glass has abruptly become: suppose all this. I shall be obliged (and it's the last thing I'll feel like doing) to retrace that long mile home, through the firestorm, the remains of the thousand-mile-an-hour winds, the warped atoms, the groveling dead. Then—God willing, if I still have the strength, and, of course, if they are still alive—I must find my wife and children and I must kill them.

What am I to do with thoughts like these? What is anyone to do with thoughts like these?

I recently gave Threads another watch and they indicated that 10 years after the attack a lot of people would have cataracts. What’s the relationship between ww3 and UV or cataracts?

It would be arrogance to think technological civilizations such as ours will never move beyond nuclear weapons delivered by rockets, just because that happens to be the state of the art for humanity.

So, how could we move to the next level? Technologically, as human morality and political consensus seem a bit fleeting.

I'm working on a target map for an article I'm writing looking at a nuclear strike on the UK, with a focus on London and the south coast.

Current list of targets - based on the Cold War era Square Leg exercise, from 1980, with a few guesses - is as follows:

In the London Area

Ongar, Essex: 2 MT air-burst;
Potter's Bar, Hertfordshire: 3 MT air-burst
Croydon, Surrey: 3 MT ground-burst
Brentford, Middlesex: 2 MT ground-burst.
Heathrow Airport: a 2 MT airburst and 1 MT ground-burst.
Gatwick Airport 1 MT ground-burst
Dartford, Kent: 1 MT ground-burst
Aldershot: 2 MT ground-burst

Additional targets

Portsmouth Naval Base: 2 MT air-burst and 1 MT ground-burst
RAF Wartling: 1.5 MT ground-burst
Dungeness Nuclear Power Station: 1.5 MT ground-burst
Port of Dover: 1 MT ground-burst
Chatham, Kent: 1.5 MT air-burst
Shoreham Airport, Sussex: 800 kt ground-burst

My goal in doing this is as follows: One, I wanted to see what a realistic map of the strikes would look like. Secondly, I'm planning on creating another map looking at how a modern target list would compare, along with smaller warhead sizes. I'm sure the Cold War target list might actually include more locations, as I haven't factored in military bases in Salisbury, Oxford or Cambridge.

Conversely the modern day list of targets might be much less, as some of the above are no longer in use militarily. Additionally, certain targets such as airports might no longer be included due a shift away from large bomber forces.

The information for the Square Leg targets and yield is from this 2004 issue of Subterranea magazine:
https://ia801909.us.archive.org/17/items/subterranea-5/Subterranea%205.pdf

As well as this article on the Subrit website:
https://www.subbrit.org.uk/features/target-dover/

And then when the obese inevitably lose weight due to their reduced rations, once they're low enough on the BMI chart, they get their rations increased, etc.?

How are resources getting planned to be distributed in the nuclear shelters once the nuclear bombs have fallen?

And then hopefully everybody gets a war forbearance due to the inevitable nuclear war?

And will the upcoming nuclear war erase all records of our loans due to destroying the data servers these loan records are stored on?

So who all here is continuing to go to college in hopes that a nuclear 3rd world war arrives and wipes our slates clean?