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I’m surprised Muscle Shoals and Mobile aren’t targets here in Alabama. They have always been regarded as potential targets.

Anyway, I’m screwed because I’m in the “die slowly and painfully” fallout area.

[Anyway, I’m screwed because I’m in the “die slowly and painfully” fallout area.]

The fallout hysteria is just that - hysteria. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were cleared starting the day after - and resettled. Nagasaki’s population before the bomb was 250K. It is now 500K. Japan’s population went from 70m prewar to 125m recently.

If death from Russian nukes worries you this much, there’s always Mother Russia. Move to a dacha in the sticks with no running water that no one will bother to strike. The lifestyle might be spartan, but the price is right. 10 to 20 thousand dollars for a cottage far away from the big city, a step or two up from a log cabin.

[I’m surprised Muscle Shoals and Mobile aren’t targets here in Alabama. They have always been regarded as potential targets.

Anyway, I’m screwed because I’m in the “die slowly and painfully” fallout area.]

Much of the hysteria about fallout is longstanding Russian disinformation planted with Russia sympathizers during the Soviet era. Part of it was the usual left wing hysteria. Part of it was ideological fellow traveling. But at least one part was just lack of compelling material to justify helping the Russians get a leg up. Who wants to be part of a Russian kleptocracy, Tsarist, Bolshevik or Putinist? So let’s give Russia everything it wants even if we end up as Russian oblasts, a Novo NovoRossiya, because that way we don’t risk a Russian nuclear attack.

Anyhow, life expectancies at Nagasaki and Hiroshima are not materially different from other Japanese prefectures - low to mid-80s - despite these two areas being the only cities ever attacked with nuclear weapons, with what would be considered dirty, high-fallout warheads by today’s standards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_prefectures_by_life_expectancy