. . . what would YOU do to save yourself? (or not, if you have a death wish (that's you, Deathwish))

What do you think would happen to the world afterwards? As in, economy, government, society, getting FOOD which is pretty important, etc.

Discuss.

I would ask god.

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I would ask god.

And he would smite you.


I live in the south so we don't have basements here. AKA = no bomb shelters.

I would out on sunglasses, pull up a chair, and watch the missles fall.

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I would ask god.

olololol god is allergic to radiation you silly butt


I'd probably head straight to a grocery store nearby. I'd then declare myself king of the store and start building a society with the food stores there.

If that wasn't an option, I'd just start walking. Nowhere in particular, just. . . around. Sort of like an adventure, but you'd probably die in this case :o

Is this what you would do if you were going to be nuked or in the area of the explosion?


Anyway, I'd drive. I'd go to the pharmacy and get that pill that keeps you from getting thyriod (sp?) cancer due to radiation. If that wasn't an option, I'd probably just try to dig a hole :)

Aren't we fucked nonetheless if there was a nuclear war?

I'd go to Utah because mormons beleive this is how the world is going to end and all have food stored up and they all have bomb shelters.

Oh, I'd grab my sword to fight off any zombies.

If the nukes were close, I'd probably just watch with a horrified look on my face.


If they were far away, I'd get on my ATV, and get the hell away from the blast areas. After that, I dunno. I'm pretty sure there'd be enough stores and markets without owners to supply me with food for a while.

Id die probably.

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Aren't we fucked nonetheless if there was a nuclear war?

Well, that really depends on where you are. If you're in a big industrial center, you're screwed, but everyone in Wyoming wouldn't really have any problems, eh? I'm assuming in this topic that you weren't screwed from the get-go.

The reason I brought this topic up was because I read the book Alas, Babylon two years ago and I just remembered it while reading Brave New World. In AB (I'll call it that from now on), the main character actually sets up a community with his neighbors and family and manages to stay alive for over a year after the big nuclear war.

AB also makes it realistic - the main character really screws some stuff up early on. He had advance warning that the war would probably come very soon, but when he went to the store to get supplies he forgot really essential things like fresh water, flour and salt, etc. I suggest the book strongly, if you haven't read it yet.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm pretty sure that life as we know it would change drastically if a nuclear war broke out, but there isn't any reason that people couldn't continue living (if they weren't in a blast area, at least).

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If that wasn't an option, I'd probably just try to dig a hole :)

And you'd look like a jackass for spending your last moment digging a hole with which to protect yourself from a nuclear explosion.

I doubt anyone who'd be around to see you doing that would be around to criticize you for it, though

I'd drive. Probably in the opposite direction of Chicago (what else are they going to bomb in Illinois, seriously), since I live about an hour away from it. I don't know how big a nuclear blast's radius would be, but I'm assuming I'd die from fallout rather than the actual explosion, and I don't want to be around for that.

Well, living in an insignificant suburb in an insignificant part of Canada, I doubt my city would be a prime target for the initial wave of nukes, so I'd have the advantage of time on my hands.

I'd do one of two things:

Option A: Spend a large amount of money purchasing gasoline and non perisherific food stuffs, as well as a small, but fully closed in and secure trailer for my car. I'd pack as much food and water, as well as many tanks of extra gasoline into the trunk and trailer and set out, perhaps with a trusted group of acquaintances (we could give ourselves a really cool survivors-of-the-apocalypse sort of name, something like "the stranded" or "the funtime party patrol"), in the opposite of the general direction that the war was progressing.

An ideal refuge would be a small middle of nowhere kind of town, mostly self sufficient, but far enough removed from the rest of the world that nobody would bother to attack it, or perhaps not even know it exists. This would probably be far north somewhere. Then I suppose I'd wait out the worst of it, attempting to gather information through whatever shards of media still existed about the progress of the war.



Option B (More Likely): I would construct a supremely powerful, utterly impervious pillow fort in my room and I would just defy the rest of the world to try and challenge me.

I live in New York D:

New York would most likely be the prime target, so I guess I'll be ****ed from the start.

If the nuke landing is going to be far, I'd probably hide somewhere..don't know.

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Option B (More Likely): I would construct a supremely powerful, utterly impervious pillow fort in my room and I would just defy the rest of the world to try and challenge me.

Bad. Ass.

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And you'd look like a jackass for spending your last moment digging a hole with which to protect yourself from a nuclear explosion.

I doubt anyone who'd be around to see you doing that would be around to criticize you for it, though

Ya, we'll see who looks like a jackass when the entire world is freezing in a nuclear winter while I'll be in my elaborate honey comb style under ground fortress. I'll accept 2 of every animal and all white people.

My lawn will be the center of the new world, the only world.