Wapo opinion piece today on nuclear attack

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this post - but did this article absolutely terrify anyone else? I live in close-in Maryland and I feel like I want to move, like immediately. I have two teenagers (one in college locally, one with a disability who is in high school). So I can’t actually move.

What are reasonable people thinking about this and what can we do to prepare?

[Anonymous]

Gift link? I stopped giving money to Bezos’ company.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see this though it’s possible I’m overlooking something. OP are you sure it is from today (July 6)? I see some older ones so no idea which OP is referencing.

[Anonymous]

https://wapo.st/44vltXU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see this though it’s possible I’m overlooking something. OP are you sure it is from today (July 6)? I see some older ones so no idea which OP is referencing.

This is OP. I'm sorry, I thought it was today but it was last weekend's paper my DH left on the dining room table. Gifted it, hopefully you can read it.

[Anonymous]

I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

OP here, that's how I feel! Also, there was NOTHING at the end of the article about the likelihood of this happening, what to do to protect yourself, etc. It was just "Devastation, if you live in the DMV you're dead. The end." That's not an opinion piece, it's something else. What, exactly, I'm not sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

OP here, that's how I feel! Also, there was NOTHING at the end of the article about the likelihood of this happening, what to do to protect yourself, etc. It was just "Devastation, if you live in the DMV you're dead. The end." That's not an opinion piece, it's something else. What, exactly, I'm not sure.

What to do to protect yourself? There's nothing, other than move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

Same

[Anonymous]

I feel like those of us over 50 grew up with this mindset. More likely to die in a beltway car crash.
I grew up down the road from titan missle silos and we were all like “thank God we’ll die in initial attacks and won’t survive for a Threads type existence.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

[Anonymous]

I don't even know what the point of it was. There is nothing new or interesting in the article. You could read all of that on Wikipedia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

OP here, that's how I feel! Also, there was NOTHING at the end of the article about the likelihood of this happening, what to do to protect yourself, etc. It was just "Devastation, if you live in the DMV you're dead. The end." That's not an opinion piece, it's something else. What, exactly, I'm not sure.

There is a vanishingly minuscule probability that this will ever happen. You have more risk of dying from a car accident, falling down the stairs or being struck by lightning.

[Anonymous]

Don't we have a Patriot defense system that could stop the missile?

[Anonymous]

I have tremendous anxiety and very little practical life skills. It actually makes me feel better to know that I won’t even know what hit me. (Not reading the article tho, so if it says something other than that, I don’t want to know!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read it in today’s paper. Terrifying and wish I hadn’t seen it given the current imbecile in charge.

OP here, that's how I feel! Also, there was NOTHING at the end of the article about the likelihood of this happening, what to do to protect yourself, etc. It was just "Devastation, if you live in the DMV you're dead. The end." That's not an opinion piece, it's something else. What, exactly, I'm not sure.

This might be for the best, OP

A few decades back i ended up on a prepper website. I was interested in preparing for a natural disaster and they had good info, but I regret clicking on the link for a nuclear attack.

Reading that, i knew I was toast. I didn't know how I was going to get several feet of soil onto my main floor so I could create an impromptu bomb shelter in my basement. My mind just went numb.