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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one of the most insane threads I've ever read on DCUM.

All you paranoid folk must know nothing about nuclear war!!

Mutually Assured Destruction means just that.[b] No one will survive. The planet will not survive. Everything and everyone on the planet will die.
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Sorry, but that’s just not true. Lots of people will still survive. The planet will absolutely survive. The most dangerous radioactive materials in fallout are essentially gone after about 4-8 weeks. A few types of long lasting isotopes will remain but they aren’t nearly as radioactive as the other materials in fallout. You can read about this stuff on wiki. I did a lot of reading about this stuff last night. The radiation is very high in the first few days, then starts to reduce quickly. There’s a mathematical formula for it called the 7-10 rule. Google it. [/quote]

Where did you read this?

A large scale nuclear attack between the USA and Russia would mean a nuclear winter that would kill most of the human race. If that wasn’t in the materials you read, they aren’t reliable. Period.[/quote]

Sorry. You’re misinformed. Physics just doesn’t work out that way. Nuclear bombs aren’t magic. They’re just bombs - with some interesting side effects that subside on an entirely predictable mathematic timetable. 4-8 weeks is entirely correct in terms of fallout. Iodine 131, Cesium 137 and Strontium 90 require more time but are produced in far smaller quantities relative to the more energetic isotopes produced in a fission cycle, which are the primary dangers from fallout. Localized neutron activation in otherwise stable elements is another source of intermediate length contamination, but it is very localized, confined to the area of neutron flux at the moment of the fission/fusion cycle.

“Nuclear winter” was a term created by Carl Sagan and embraced by Hollywood script writers. It has no basis in reality. A large scale exchange would put enough soot, smoke and dust into the air to cloud skies for a short time, but that’s all. Many volcanic eruptions in the last millennia have put far more ash into the atmosphere than every nuclear weapon on earth possibly could.

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Okay, good luck with that. Enjoy the post apocalyptic hellscape following large scale nuclear war between us and Putin. You’re quite welcome to my share of the canned foods, I hope not to survive. [/quote]

Stay healthy and in good shape. I plan on surviving, and I might need to eat you at some point. Which I absolutely would (after humanely killing you, of course) [/quote]

I plan on eating trumpers. They’re fat and will keep alive for a long time. I’ll rig a snare trap and bait it with a red MAGA hat. They’ll reach down to pick it up and I’ll catch them in the snare. Then I’ll club them in the head and cut them up and cook them. Dinner at 8! [/quote]

Aren't they poisoned with pool chemicals? And some sort of brain-eating disease? 
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