#nuclear holocaust

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[missfinefeather]

You know, I dunno why I'm sharing this memory, but I remember in Health class, there was this group assignment where global thermal nuclear war happened and we got stuck in a bunker with a bunch of people

The assignment describes everyone in the bunker with you and details on what your time with them has been so far since winding up in here.

So basically, you find out you don't have enough food for everybody to last to the end of nuclear winter, so you need to kick two people out. It's decided you stay as you are the owner of the bunker, but you have to decide who goes

I think it was supposed to be an experiment about your personal prejudices, but they kinda fucked it up

I don't remember any of the other people in the bunker with us, but there was this one guy who was overweight and he was caught stealing from rations before. My groupmates picked him as one of the people sent out

Then the teacher was like "So you kicked him from the bunker because he's fat?"

And they are like "No! It's because he steals food!"

Hence why I thought the assignment was poorly set up. If they wanted us to judge people for superficial things, then they wouldn't have added details like the fact he was endangering everyone by stealing rations.

Of course, that's what everyone else in the group chose. When confronted with the problem, I volunteered myself to go out into the wasteland, because I'd rather die of radiation poisoning than make that choice

The teacher… was not expecting that response and tried to get me to go with the assignment as it was intended, but I was resolute in my answer.

I wonder if I made the right choice there. Was I being brave, or was it me just being a coward by running from making that choice? I guess it was a little of both? I dunno

Though, one thing I'm proud of: I'm glad I confused the heck out of that teacher xD

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[hellsgate-roadhouse]

Nuclear holocaust by: msabas on deviantart

[good-old-gossip]

Zionists = Nazis

Israeli historian Benny Morris has called on Israel to launch a military attack on Iran, either through “conventional weaponry” or by using nuclear weapons. In a column for Haaretz over the weekend, Morris said Israel’s response to Iranian missile attacks on 13 April was “weak”, and was part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “extreme hesitation and restraint” in the face of Iranian threats for the past 15 years.

“The attacks against Israel over the past eight months by Iran, its emissaries and its allies... provide sufficient reason to attempt to destroy Iran’s strategic capabilities, which include ballistic capabilities,” he wrote.

“There’s no better moment to deliver a strategic blow against Iran, given the current asymmetry in capabilities between the two countries,” he added, stating that Israel had far superior weaponry than Tehran, but that such advantages would be lost in the coming years.

“Once the ayatollahs have nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them, they may well use them against Israel - and leave it to Allah to protect them against Israel’s second-strike capabilities,” he wrote.

He said that Israel had one key advantage over Iran: its current reported possession of nuclear weapons, while Iran only aspired to it.

“If Israel proves incapable of destroying the Iranian nuclear project using conventional weaponry, then it may not have any option but to resort to its nonconventional capabilities,” Morris wrote, referring to nuclear weapons.

He said that while the international media, some world leaders and “ignorant and mindless youngsters on the campuses” would condemn Israel, there would be “significant understanding” among other international onlookers.

Morris’s comments came as Yair Katz, head of the Israeli workers’ union in the aerospace industry, stated that Israel had weapons that could “break the equation” against Iranian threats, in an apparent reference to nuclear weapons.

“If Iran, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and all the countries of the Middle East decide that it is time to settle accounts with us, I understand that we have the capabilities to use the doomsday weapon,” Katz said.

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[thethcministry]

[nicklloydnow]

“In the event of either a fullscale nuclear war, or a ‘limited strike’ between the two superpowers, the Canadian prairies would become the front lines. Cities with airports large enough to service a DC-10 would become prime targets, as would mines and power sources. So begins After the Big One, a 25-minute documentary written and directed by Bob Lower for the NFB.

After the Big One provides us with facts about the effects of a nuclear exchange on Central Canada. It also shows that, not surprisingly, our government has made very few preparations for civilian protection and rehabilitation: Information on civil defense is out-dated and inaccurate, and pamphlets signed by John Diefenbaker with titles like “Your basement fallout shelter” date back to the early 1960s.

Bill Willis of the Winnipeg office of the emergency planning commission admits in the film that he and his staff are ineffective due to a lack of funds and resources. But he also points out that there is little that can be done in any case.” His only hope is to inform people so that, if there is an attack, they will at least know what is happening.

The inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the film is that there can be no civil defense. Indeed, Dr. Ian Carr of Physicians for Social Responsibility describes in the film the medical profession’s inability to cope with the thousands of casualties that would result from a strike, and the devastation to all forms of life from radioactive fallout in the event of a strike on the missile silos of the midwestern states of Nebraska and Montana.

Despite the terrifying facts portrayed in the film, After the Big One is based on the premise that knowledge, however bleak, is power: Only through an understanding of their situation can Canadians gain the influence necessary to, end the threat of annihilation. The film is therefore informational without being sensational, allowing us to comprehend the immediacy of our peril, without succumbing to despair and helplessness. It is a further step toward establishing an informed, and therefore influential, Canadian public.”

[manojnaironline]

The number of nuclear bombs required

I have always pondered this question: What is the number of nuclear bombs required to provide an individual with a sense of security? Is it a singular bomb, a couple, or an extensive arsenal numbering in the thousands? Recently, I stumbled upon a list featuring various countries alongside their corresponding numerical values. The United States and Russia showcased counts nearing five thousand,…

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...The Day After (1983) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #drama #nuclearwar #nuclearholocaust #thedayafter #JasonRobards #ripjasonrobards #JohnLithgow #steveguttenberg #jobethwilliams #AmyMadigan #bibibesch #ArlissHoward #wayneknight #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

[jbfly46]

If the U.S. military doesn’t withdraw all offensive forces from the Middle East immediately the U.S. economy will collapse. If Trump gets reelected our country will turn into a technocracy and it will likely end in a nuclear holocaust.

[3fluffies]

New Fic: A Timeline of Panem (Hunger Games Headcanon)

A Blended Canon and Headcanon Timeline of Panem. Chronicler Wiress narrates the history being pieced together by historians and scientists from the civilizations that once occupied North America to the Cataclysm that destroyed them and finally the Hunger Games Years and Second Rebellion.

Chronicler's Forward: Wiress explains how she and others have worked to restore Panem's knowledge of its own place in history and the civilizations that have come before after the Capitol went to such effort to hide that history and its lessons.

Chronicler's Notes on the Cataclysmic Era: A narrative of world wars and the factors that turned World War IV into the Cataclysmic War that shattered the world and the Mini Ice Age that threatened to erase all human life that remained.

Timeline of the Cataclysmic Era: A timeline of significant events in history up to the end of the Mini Ice Age and the beginning of the Panem Formation Era.

Enjoy! Discussion and debate joyfully welcomed, as are questions and criticism of all kinds!  Feedback! My kingdom for feedback!

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[natecoumbe31]

Bringing about our own extinction

Why do we need to actually create the Matrix?

David Meerman Scott published a fascinating article a few days ago. It compares modern AI companies to Enron and that company’s financial scandal that broke in 2001.  But one paragraph in particular stood out to me that warrants quoting in full: Altman says there’s a chance that so-called Artificial General Intelligence (which is still years or decades away) has the possibility of turning…