Have you ever seriously wondered how you would react upon hearing news that a nuclear device had been detonated, and that it wasn't for a test. If it had been used as a weapon on a city or region I'm talking about. Would you be real worried, even if it had happened far from your location? What would you do?
shareI live in Los Angeles and if a nuclear war broke out then LA would be one if the top targets. I would see a flash of light then that's it. I would be vaporized along with millions of other people. At least it would be a quick death.
shareNot necessarily. There were survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima who were far away enough from the blast to not die instantly and they suffered horrific burns. Some lived, some died but the idea that you would be instantly vaporized and thus would not feel pain or suffering is wishful thinking.
shareModern nuclear weapons are much more powerful than the bombs used in Japan. If used in a large city such as Los Angeles millions of people would be vaporized.
shareHow can we not ponder that scenario when Russia has recently, overtly, made that very threat? I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as a boy. I feel like I'm reliving it!
shareI distinctly remember being scared as a boy in the 80โs also. There was no major event in my mind but the thought was always there that sooner or later it would happen.
shareHere's a perspective I encountered early this morning with my first coffee that moved me to tears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJJxAvl33Dw
shareIt was pretty unsettling when Reagan bombed Libya...1985?
shareAgree 100%. Remember seeing The Day After in 1983 and being unnerved and wondering how we got to the point where governments had the power to destroy all life on Earth
shareYeah, that got to a lot of people. I'm in Kansas. One of the missile silos depicted in that movie, now long abandoned, is about 40 miles west of me.
sharesafe to say i would be pretty freaked out.
depends a bit on context of course.
if russia used a small tactical nuke in ukraine, i'd be upset and angry like everyone would i'm sure.
and i'd be very worried about the spillover consequences.
as for what i would do...i'd spend hours and hours doom-scrolling through twitter.
I figure it would be a similar feeling to how I felt when I turned on the news in 2004 and heard about the earthquake/tsunami in the Indian Ocean. I knew it was a mass casualty event, but never would have thought almost 228,000 were going to die.
shareI don't want to survive a nuclear war, so I guess I would get a drink, sit out in my yard and hope I was smack in the middle of ground zero.
BTW - this happened several years ago in Hawaii. It was announced that missiles were incoming and how people reacted is interesting. Obviously it turned out to be a false alarm.
i read a book on chernobyl a few months ago. it's better to be incinerated than to die from radiation exposure.
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