Map of potential nuclear targets.

X ^ | Declaration of Memes

[hardspunned]

How screwed are you?

[grobdriver]

Looks like we’re good - but why would they want to nuke the Aggies in College Station? Lose a bet on their football team? (easy to do)

[SaveFerris]

Yikes

Maybe I should buy that old Titan II silo down the road 🛣️ about 30 miles....

[hardspunned]

Be honest, are you banking on some Euroweenies getting nuked which brings the world to its senses before something really serious happens?

That’s our best hope now.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah

[SaveFerris]

I’ll take a ‘61 Thunderbird

[ShadowAce]

You’re not worried about this nuclear razor’s edge our dementia patient is navigating for us?

I'm not worried, either.

There's absolutely no point in worrying about something you cannot control.

[Political Junkie Too]

I actually like the music my neighbor plays.

-PJ

[who knows what evil?]

Well, this will resolve that illegal alien problem, AND get us down to Deagle’s target population of 100 million by 2025. It’s a WIN-WIN!

[Vermont Lt]

On a fairly recent map, the Russians had indicated the city near me, Springfield MA because of its industrial output.

Jokes on them. The Armory was closed in 1973.

So, they would be wasting a bomb on us.

[Who is John Galt?]

I have it on good authority that all of Russia’s nukes are now duds. I heard it from a Zeeper.

Yes, plus I have been assured by all of the clairvoyants, gypsy fortune tellers, and "MAKE UKRAINE GREAT AGAIN!!!" folks on FR that, while "PUTLER!!!" is a crazed dictator planning to conquer Europe (and then the rest of the world), he is also a self-sacrificing humanitarian, who would gouge out his own eyeballs and eat them, before he would use even one of the thousands of nuclear weapons under his control. What a relief!

;^)

[Vermont Lt]

When I was in fourth grade our teacher’s husband was a B52 pilot. We would have our once a month drills.

There was one time when she must have been having a bad day…we overheard her complaining, “We are ten miles away from the base….none of this is going to matter.”

Not exactly what a ten year old needed to year. LOL

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Even if only 10% of the Russian Nukes work—we are screwed. Power gone, order gone, as the war ends we would be occupied by Mexico who would loot what ever is of use to them to seal or sell. Only winners, places that didn’t engage in the war.

[heavy metal]

another reason to appreciate living in hurricane alley...

[Phlyer]

I won’t suffer from radiation poisoning.

One of the interesting legends that have developed is that radiation poisoning will be a huge problem over and above that from the immediate heat/blast/EMP effects. Actually, in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki the number of radiation sickness deaths was less than 10% of those from direct effects (those that would have resulted from an equivalent-power, non-nuclear weapon if there were such a thing).

If you're one of those 10%, possibly millions over and above the 100 million or so deaths from direct effects, then the radiation effects are a very, very big deal. But if you're reasonably far from a direct target, then it's not likely to kill you. Moving to a 'safe' location can be effective.

One of the really frightening things is that - about the time the USSR was collapsing - the Soviets were writing papers on how to fight and *win* a nuclear war. We (the US) need to recognise that Russia lost 10% of it's total population in WWII, and another 10% before that in Stalin's purges, and came out of that dual decimation stronger than ever. They can envision having 20% of their population killed and still ruling the post-war world. We can either recognize that our own 'boogy-man' fear of nuclear weapons where the first one used means the end of life is overstated (at least in their minds), or find a way to 'win' at every level of conflict so that none of them is tried by a fanatic - but not necessarily insane - adversary.

[reg45]

DC will no longer be moaning about statehood.

[ExSES]

I remember teaching Civil Defense classes on survival after a nuclear attack back in the 60s and early 70s. I always used to end the classes with... "Those of us surviving will envy the dead"!

[Bartholomew Roberts]

They just want to get rid of all the Meth!

[bk1000]

More screwed that I thought!

[hardspunned]

Don’t be niggardly when spreading around the destruction. The entire Northern Hemisphere would be an unlivable wasteland.

[hardspunned]

https://youtu.be/Q7kA5qDOUHE?si=qt20xu3CZzvv_sLO