Nuclear attack and its survivability
Everyone knows about the power of the atomic bomb. Images of a horrifying wall of fire turning people into skeletons in an instant, quickly followed up by an all-destroying blastwave has been endlessly regurgitated in movies and TV shows.
"There is no defense against nuclear attack!!" is the underlying message. "Nothing can protect you!!"
Yet the most horrifying, sickening thing about this is ......almost everyone believes them. In stark contrast , the core message of this site is to help people realize that even in the event of a nuclear attack on your own city, there is still a realistic hope of surviving the experience. Why should I make such a claim, when everyone knows that vastly powerful megaton bombs can flatten entire cities? Well, what the MSM (and consequently the public) have missed is that along with the process of nuclear proliferation, nuclear attacks of the future are nowadays more likely to be single detonations over each city by either terrorist organizations or rogue states. (Which is a very different threat than, say, the Cold War scenario of six or eight warheads arriving over one target city within a few minutes from a nuclear superpower). Unfortunately, the proliferation problem means that the chances of a single-detonation attack has dramatically increased.
Today's proliferating states are: Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel and India. Egypt and Japan are considering joining them. Some of these states are, of course, dependable. Others are not.
There are many lies spread about the effects of nuclear weapons, which results in such a sense of shock, horror, and panic that the general population is psychologically paralyzed from making preparations. (Check out this blatant propaganda that is now found everywhere, and which, astonishingly, is accepted as truth by the general public:- Myths).
Yet the most horrifying, sickening thing about this is ......almost everyone believes them. In stark contrast , the core message of this site is to help people realize that even in the event of a nuclear attack on your own city, there is still a realistic hope of surviving the experience. Why should I make such a claim, when everyone knows that vastly powerful megaton bombs can flatten entire cities? Well, what the MSM (and consequently the public) have missed is that along with the process of nuclear proliferation, nuclear attacks of the future are nowadays more likely to be single detonations over each city by either terrorist organizations or rogue states. (Which is a very different threat than, say, the Cold War scenario of six or eight warheads arriving over one target city within a few minutes from a nuclear superpower). Unfortunately, the proliferation problem means that the chances of a single-detonation attack has dramatically increased.
Today's proliferating states are: Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel and India. Egypt and Japan are considering joining them. Some of these states are, of course, dependable. Others are not.
There are many lies spread about the effects of nuclear weapons, which results in such a sense of shock, horror, and panic that the general population is psychologically paralyzed from making preparations. (Check out this blatant propaganda that is now found everywhere, and which, astonishingly, is accepted as truth by the general public:- Myths).
Many useful survival lessons can been gleaned from past nuclear disasters:
- The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, and some specific test detonations which were carried out in the fifties and sixties (e.g. Operation Doorstep (aka Operation Upshot-Knothole, 16 kt Annie March 17, 1953), and Operation Cue (aka Operation Teapot, 29 kt Apple-2 May 5, 1955)). All these contribute valuable information to help shape civil defense recommendations.
- The nuclear reactor accidents which occurred at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Windscale and Fukushima, and elsewhere, which provide a reasonably broad range of data to guide the response to future civilian accidents.
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