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teddy241 posted...

Would you hope to be in the center of the blast so you just vaporize or would you want to try and stick it out from the radiation fall out?

I'd argue surviving a nuclear explosion is worse in nearly every way than dying in one. Vaporize 100%.

The only good way to survive a nuclear blast is to be absolutely nowhere near one in the first place.


If actual nuclear war breaks out I'm pretty much dead no matter what. Being right in the middle between NYC and Philly and a few hours north of both Baltimore and Washington DC means I'm more or less right at the heart of the shit hitting the fan.

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If I even survive the first strike (NYC being the most likely problem), I'm probably roasted to the born and irradiated to fuck. At which point I'm probably just slitting my wrists and laying down to die because fuck that noise.

And even if I survived all that by some miracle, I'm still fucked because the fallout is going to hit my area worse than pretty much anywhere else.

http://www.radmeters4u.com/states/aacont2.jpg


Ironically, I actually DO have a Cold War-era fallout shelter like 2 minutes away from me, so in theory with enough warning I could potentially try to get into it. But I have no idea if it's been maintained at all over the last 30+ years, and it was probably never all that effective in the first place (most fallout shelters were more for the PR value than actually able to protect against nukes). And even if it worked perfectly I'd still be stuck inside until someone could evacuate me somehow. So I'd probably still be screwed in there even if I could get in.

On the other hand, if it's just North Korea lobbing nukes the best they could possibly do would likely be to hit the West Coast, in which case I'd probably be relatively fine other than the hit to the economy and produce.