[Eleutheria5]

Well, folks. Start digging if you haven’t already built a shelter. When resting, read Alas, Babylon, forget the author, book from the 1950s, and realize that the scenario he describes is extremely rose tinted.

[SaveFerris]

Mr. TM wrote an electronic version under a similar name.

I’m sure Alas Babylon probably knows who the author is you speak of.

I looked it up. Pat Frank. I figured it was someone else. Learn something new every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas,_Babylon

Interesting - the USA receives aid from Brazil and Venezuela. I seriously doubt that could happen these days, especially given the dire situation in Venezuela. And a significant part of Brazil, at least their Olympic areas, are heavily-contaminated.

[Travis McGee]

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

(Link to the full-length Free Republic thread)

[x_plus_one]

A bomb shelter is not a long term solution. Decades of high background radiation will reduce human population. Cities with coal fired electrical plants will keep civilization alive while the rest of the US dies of hunger and exposure. best to be someplace out of harms reach rather than invest in a bomb shelter. The top 100 cities are targets as are the military installations. There are places to go.