RE: Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?
March 22, 2015 at 1:55 am
(March 22, 2015 at 1:50 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(March 22, 2015 at 12:48 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Sure - if it ever comes to it, it'll be the end of civilization as we know it, maybe the end of humanity, or even life on Earth. But at least it will be fairly quick.
If you live in the blast/firestorm zones, it'll be quick. For those in Butt-Fuck, Ks. or Middlanowhere, Id. not so much. Radiation poisoning's a slow painful way to die. Even if you're outside the blast/firestorm and fallout areas there will be massive disruption of all the infrastructure (natural gas, water, electricity, hospitals) we depend on to survive. Add in nuclear winter and possibly thinning of the ozone layer afterwards and you have a recipe for suffering rarely seen anywhere on this planet, all over the planet.
No, it won't be "fairly quick" except for those in immediate target areas.
... to say nothing of the massive amounts of mutations which will certainly put paid to most of the succeeding generations in the hot zones -- meaning that most if not all of the genetically viable human survivors will be isolated from one another, without an advanced transport network to connect with each other.
