RE: nuclear disaster....
You’re telling me? I grew up with the 1st grade lesson to duck and cover and I read Level Seven by Mordecai Roshwald about life 7 stories underground after a war, as well as the books and films of On the Beach and Fail Safe among many others. And I really resent living long enough for Dr. Strangelove to be coming true today. God forbid.
Did a front of class project describing affects after nuclear war with poster board illustrations. Got an “A.”
I fear dying slowly in the barbarian filled aftermath with radiation poisoning, cannibalism and gangs. Movie Things To Come with Raymond Massey with survival of the meanest louts is probable.
Like today’s NYC and DC I suppose.
Classic Ron Cobb cartoon of the man whose lack of an outlet to regain his lost TV signal is about the worst thing he can imagine.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/09/21/ron-cobb-rip/
“You’re telling me? I grew up with the 1st grade lesson to duck and cover...”
I remember the duck under the desk drills, the assembling in the gym and being assigned sleeping spots drill, all kinds of drills. Only to find out years later that the school was only 10 miles from a nuclear fuels plant that also produces nuclear fuel rods for the Navy. I saw a map that showed us well within the “everyone is collateral damage” zone. Sobering.
Having lived with that on my mind and considering what fruitcakes around the world have nukes now, anyone who mentions the use of nukes has automatically lost. We need a Godwin’s Rule for thermonuclear weapons.