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RE: The Aftermath of a Nuclear Fallout
What really boggles my mind is that, during the Cold War, just about everyone - including schoolchildren - lived with the specter of nuclear destruction hanging over their heads. This was an accepted fact of life, and everyone understood it. Nowadays, it's like a distant memory in the minds of my generation, and utterly non-existent in the minds of the generation after mine. Nuclear stockpiles are still out there, ready to use at a moment's notice.
I wonder if humanity's collective short memory won't be our undoing.
yes, I am from the later generation. I can understand though how difficult and stressful it must have been at those times. It would be like living with a ticking time bomb....which could literally be the case at that time!
yes i lived with the school drill " Duck and Cover ", total rubbish, as if being under a table would help you. There is a collective dissonance to this subject. People really think it will never happen and carry on ignoring all of the dire warnings being sounded right now around the world. The best solution to this problem is to have never created such weapons, sadly we did and now they are in the hands of just about every rogue player on world politics, even i would say ISIS, seeing as they are clearly nothing more than a mercenary tool of destabilization and destruction by other bigger players !!
ya i absolutely hate those duck and cover videos! Either they were stupid or they just didn't care!
The world really is in chaos as long as these weapons are in the hands of the rogue people as you mention!
I remember the nuclear doom, and I have educated myself such that I might manage to survive that first 20 years of misery. But nobody wants this, and why anyone tolerates this is beyond me. I should note also, that a lot of the stockpiles are cleaner weapons, and apart from the clouds of dust, the radiation poisoning would not last as long as 20 years, especially in the equatorial regions.
It is literally like living in an apocalyptic world...where you have to live underground hidden away from everyone else, scavenging for food and so on.