You mention nuclear bombs to Americans and they get edgy. Granted, nuclear war ain’t good but the dirty little secret is that it is survivable. The Ruskys know it, the Chicoms know it and I pray that our military still has plans to win it.
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You mention nuclear bombs to Americans and they get edgy. Granted, nuclear war ain’t good but the dirty little secret is that it is survivable. The Ruskys know it, the Chicoms know it and I pray that our military still has plans to win it."
That's correct, and the clucking about "Mutually Assured Destruction" has been a misleading bit of propaganda disseminated by a few mad folks who value their market stability more than life itself. Nukes are built to be used, and we can indeed survive nuclear exchanges.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki anti-nuclear propaganda debunked by the hard factshttp://glasstone.blogspot.com/2009/11/groupthink-and-proliferation-why.html
Declassified effects of nuclear weapons and other threats: minimizing weapons effects on civilians Can Britain and America prevail over an alliance of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea in WWIII? American sanctions on Japan in 1940 led to Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, so beware of the lessons of history Mr President, and get civil defense Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Evidence that inaccurate statements about weapons effects have historically caused increased threats to national security, instead of reducing them
Bobhistory - Politics 1950s and 60s [Nuclear exchanges survivable after all.]https://bobhistory.wikispaces.com/Politics+1950s+and+60s
Nuclear War Survival Skills Free, online book
http://www.oism.org/nwss/
The cleanup would be fast, and that's not the half of it.
After a nuclear exchange, much more will happen that most people by far know nothing about. War would continue for a little while, yes. But let's just say that employment would be very abundant and would pay very well. And no, not only military employment.
The economy would be running like a powerful machine. You see, though, that's another change that many of the political/regulator class people want to prevent. They really don't want the multitudes they consider to be human trash to survive a nuclear exchange--another reason that they continue to get themselves ready with luxury fallout shelters in remote areas while continuing to publicly insist that nuclear war would only cause absolute human extinction.
There are even plans to continue and increase safe farming after nuclear exchanges, cleanup, testing of products and all.