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I recently saw a comment chain about nuclear bombs, and that led me to thinking about this. Say there is a nuclear explosion in the downtown of my US city. I survive relatively fine, but obviously the main part of the city has been destroyed, while major zones extending from the center were also badly damaged. What would be a good response to (a) survive and (b) help out the recovery effort?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I live at the edge of a city but near a major airport. my biggest nuke fear is a bomb hits the city center that leaves me alive and the airport ones take awhile to arrive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there even any nukeing the airport? Damage to the runway plus the EMP generated would probably prevent aircraft from taking off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

turns out that flat strips of concrete firmly attached to ground are pretty hard to damage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just assumed they would want to hit major infrastructure like airports, depots and such. Now my new fear is they don't nuke the airport at all. Im like at 3rd degree awefulness distance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

airstrips longer than 1600m (iirc) were at some point designated as strategic targets by soviets, so you assumed correctly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I used to live about three miles from Camp David. I figured I'd either be killed immediately or inside a defensive perimeter in the event of a war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Large bridges, airports, urban areas, any military installations, dams/hydroelectric, power plants, major train hubs, etc. are all targets in all-out nuclear war. You’ll need to actually think of how many things are targets and plot what not to be near.

Either way, all-out war would fuck the planet and probably set us back a century at best. If China survived they’d be the global power as they have the resources and manufacturing that the rest of the world has mostly given up, the rest would be completely decimated.