Is it worth trying to survive a nuclear war? - Despite it's potential consequences?

[Alex Hogendorp]

As many people anticipate World War 3. Many people have been wondering whether or not an all out nuclear war would be worth trying to survive at all. This thread is about a scenario if Nuclear Weapons are used and the consequences it follows and then coming to a conclusion on whether or not it would be worth surviving.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Back when tv movies like Threads and the Day After was produced. Many people think then the surviving people will envy the dead people in the aftermath.

 

[Vingle]

Lol no, the whole world would we inhabitable. The nuclear weapons is far stronger now than in the past.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

If you don't make contact with radiation, then yes it would be. Life is too precious to just throw yourself at a nuke or feed your head through a rope because of nukes. I can see some super depressed people running toward nukes through a crowd of stampeding people trying to escape, like a fish trying to swim upstream, but I think that at least most people with depression would think twice about killing themselves if the world were to end, mostly because it's a huge paradigm shift & they would at least try their odds at the post-apocalypse before deciding on it.

 

[Nancy]

Fuck no. Look at the damage caused by Chernobyl (won't be habitable for another 20,000 years) and that was only a little uh-oh

Preppers stay coping

 

[The Gene Genie]

Yes. Anti-nuclear advocates, who were literally owned and run by the KGB back in the Cold War days, were shilling for a fantasy. Nagasaki and Hiroshima are perfectly livable nowadays, and the atomic bombs dropped on them were far more "dirty" than the ones built now. Nuclear winter is a meme pushed by the same anti-nuclear advocates on bad science specifically for a political point to try to force the West to disarm while the Soviet Union continued its production.

A nuclear war would be devastating and would probably end our civilization, but humanity would survive and would get on with it. Like every other catastrophe we've ever faced. If anything, it would probably do a bit of good eliminating the urban cities and kneecapping the gayfag elite.

 

[Bog-standard Poster]

When I think of Nuclear war in the west, I think of the little tribes knocking around in the amazon and africa, who would have no idea what a nuclear was, what happened or who caused it. All they would know is to keep on hunting and gathering and react to the new environment in whatever way necessary.

God bless the tribes of humans who haven't advanced in 6000 years, who will keep our species alive for the next 6000.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I mean I wouldn't have to work an actual job and neither would any of you as money would probably become near completely pointless in the aftermath so I would say yes, you should give surviving a try.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Fuck no. Look at the damage caused by Chernobyl (won't be habitable for another 20,000 years) and that was only a little uh-oh

Preppers stay coping

You do know that nuclear bombs would be directed at major cities & political nodes and not the wilderness, right? Seems like a waste of ammo to blow up a desert or farmland for no reason.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

When you are close to death, you'll automatically try to survive. It's instinct.

 

[Nancy]

You do know that nuclear bombs would be directed at major cities & political nodes and not the wilderness, right? Seems like a waste of ammo to blow up a desert or farmland for no reason.

I don't think you understood the point I was trying to make; radiation absorbs into the ground and it stays there for thousands and thousands of years, the entire ecosystem would be destroyed. There's no point in trying to survive because there'd be nothing left to go back to. That's the point of the threat of nuclear war, that's what "mutually assured destruction" means; we're all going to die

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I don't think you understood the point I was trying to make; radiation absorbs into the ground and it stays there for thousands and thousands of years, the entire ecosystem would be destroyed.

Chernobyl didn't wipe out the entirety of Ukraine or the world for that matter. There's actually a slice of land that Ukraine & Russia fought over called the Crimea that's known for being fertile, & that conflict happened after Chernobyl. The only places that would be affected would be the sites of the nuclear strikes, like in Japan. The majority of land mass throughout the world would still be habitable.

You just better hope it doesn't hit any major bodies of fresh water though.

 

[Nancy]

Chernobyl didn't wipe out the entirety of Ukraine or the world for that matter. There's actually a slice of land that Ukraine & Russia fought over called the Crimea that's known for being fertile, & that conflict happened after Chernobyl. The only places that would be affected would be the sites of the nuclear strikes, like in Japan. The majority of land mass throughout the world would still be habitable.

You just better hope it doesn't hit any major bodies of fresh water though.

Fresh water? Dude, there's water in the ground

 

[FamicomGorby]

I think so, but mainly because my philosophy is that while it's not like life is so fucking great, it sure as fuck beats being dead.

The bigger problem than fallout though, will be the collapse of all the infrastructure that makes our global society work. Especially now that farming in the developed world is handled by a small minority that largely relies on the output of the industrial part of society in the form of mechanical farm equipment, chemical fertilizers, etc.

 

[NoonmanR]

There aren't enough nukes to blanket the entire world, but they can definitely send the survivors to the dark ages if they manage to strike at certain resources. Imagine what would happen if, say, the entire oil supply was made inaccessible.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I think so, but mainly because my philosophy is that while it's not like life is so fucking great, it sure as fuck beats being dead.

The bigger problem than fallout though, will be the collapse of all the infrastructure that makes our global society work. Especially now that farming in the developed world is handled by a small minority that largely relies on the output of the industrial part of society in the form of mechanical farm equipment, chemical fertilizers, etc.

Aren't there all kinds of almanacs & books that tell you how to farm? Not just the basic "put seed in ground" shit, but the best soil composition, how to compost, ect?

 

[Dyn]

Nothing will change in Australia except all these retarded yanks and bongs will stop shitting up our internet.

 

[Pedophobe]

Fuck yeah. Don't you want to be the Ayatollah of Rock'n'Rolla or at least the Wez's bumboy? Let's ride!

 

[Nancy]

Nothing will change in Australia except all these retarded yanks and bongs will stop shitting up our internet.

Don't be rama rama, there's Pine Gap and a CIA base there

 

[BirdUp]

it is if you invest in water filtration and aeroponics
buy enough nutrients to last six months, and a backup reserve of canned food