Nuclear War

Posted by CapTenn
The worst of humanity will happen. Mass casualties. Even if one survived the intial blast, fallout, etc., they'd just lay down and die without their iphone to tell them what to do. Disastrous.
We've become too soft as a nation to survive such a disaster. The pussification of the USA will show up in full force.
Thank technology and it's advances.

Posted by cowpuncher
Too much freedom isn't the problem. We have less and less of that every day, and as every little bit of that Freedom goes away, things continue to get worse.
If a nuclear war ever happened, I'm not so sure you'd want to be a survivor. Those who did manage to survive would have to deal with sickness, hunger, learning how to grow their own food, being able to defend themselves and that food, and a host of other problems. I'm sure some would survive, but not many. IMHO more would die in the aftermath than even in the attacks.
Think about this for a second - Our food distribution in most western nations these days works on a "Just in Time" model. Most stores only have a 3-5 day supply of food for normal circumstances on hand at any given time. So ask yourself, what happens when the infrastructure is suddenly crippled or broken, and the trucks full of food aren't rolling in, the power is off (no refrigeration), and those who survive start getting hungry?
Honestly those vaporized in the initial attack would be the lucky ones. Let's hope it never happens.

Posted by Sn1p3r187
Would we ever survive it? And will ever happen in an unsure amount of years? With my mom and dad growing up in the 50's and 60's, they had worry about nuclear war constantly from the USSR during the time. They even told me that in school they did exercises and drills for when a nuclear strike could happen on their city. I grew in the 90's up until no and I never worried about Nuclear war. Then again, some movies, books, and video games just make me say..... what if. What do you think will happen?

Posted by CapTenn
The worst of humanity will happen. Mass casualties. Even if one survived the intial blast, fallout, etc., they'd just lay down and die without their iphone to tell them what to do. Disastrous.
We've become too soft as a nation to survive such a disaster. The pussification of the USA will show up in full force.
Thank technology and it's advances.

Posted by mrdesperado
I think the running joke is the only thing that would survive, is cockroaches and keith richards from the rolling stones . An interesting television series that's predicated on this situation is Jericho. It's no longer on, but it takes a look at what issues might arise in the aftermath of such an event. It should still be on netflix.

Posted by truecap
I don't think it would be nuclear disaster or economic collapse. In my opinion, the most likely and realistic scenario would be pandemic illness. Antibiotics are already proving to be less effective.
As far as post nuclear disaster, we wouldn't be able to grow crops and the animal population would be almost non-existent. People would result to cannibalism. Anyone see "The Road". Very dark and solemn look at a post-nuclear war scenario.