Is anybody prepping for Nuclear War?

[churchmouse]

Probably Praxair. They make metallurgical compounds for the military contractors. Not to mention Allison

Navel Avionics.

 

[churchmouse]

I believe the target here is Ft Ben. Payroll processing center of the military.

Soldiers wont fight if you cant pay them is the theory.

Allisons. Rolls Royce. Navel Avionics. PraxAire. And more.

 

[CWMC]

Don't worry. All of us that shoot 45 acp will simply shoot the nukes out of the sky, and destroy the souls of everyone living in the country that launched them against us!

this

 

[Indyhd]

MISO 1 and 2. I wouldn't have thought it THAT important given the associated disruption from a full-scale attack, but Homeland Security apparently disagrees. I guess if you have warheads to go around...

And I was just assuming it was the city of Carmel.
Pretty sure Russia or China would want to eliminate Carmel first.

 

[ancjr]

It'd be a waste of a bomb to drop one anywhere around here.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

It'd be a waste of a bomb to drop one anywhere around here.

Don't feel left out. The EMP will still kill the electric grid. There will also be fallout from the target stikes out west.

 

[jake blue]

The lucky ones die at ground zero. The rest get to suffer and die off slowly from the aftermath. Tombs is pretty much on the mark - there's going to be far greater casualties in the post-strike landscape than from the initial strike.

Initial strike - wipes some major cities off the map as well as probably a few strategic targets. Disruption of communication, supply chain, infrastructure, etc leads to general chaos. A few more casualties result from general chaos as people become lemmings in the face of a crisis.

Weeks following - survivors near strike zones quickly succumb to radiation poisoning, direction and severity determined by prevailing weather but that too is probably unpredictable. There's likely no long-term studies regarding weather pattern changes resulting from multiple regional nuclear detonations.

Months following - radiation clouds have blanketed the entire country, poisoning the entire population to some degree. Crops wither, livestock dies, those who know how to survive without modern conveniences still struggle to feed themselves and their loved ones, so clan feudalistic mentality sets in. The more isolated and remote the better but it's still a bleak prospect.

The waterways become polluted with the diseased runoff from the mass casualties of both human and animal corpses left unmanaged. Again, isolation being the best defense but no guarantee of safety.

The first year following - probably ~90% casualty rate between the victims of the initial strike, those who perished lacking the skills to adapt and survive, and the casualties of the first winter season. If you think winters are getting worse now, what happens when an ash cloud essentially blocks the sun for months at a time? This will also bring much of the atmospheric radiation back to the earth so look for a second surge of radiation poisoning related deaths and across a much wider area than the initial fallout.

Years later, when longer less obvious effects of radiation include impotence/infertility and genetic disorders, trying to repopulate the human race may be next to impossible. Even if our global leaders and the wealthy elite remain relatively unaffected in their fortified underground bunkers, it could be many years before they emerge and the genetic pool of their offspring will be much less diverse leading to inherited genetic disorders arising from inbreeding. Additionally, if they think they're going to emerge to the same social status that awarded them survival odds, they're going to be sorely disappointed. There will no longer be a class structure upon which they can prop themselves up so they'll emerge healthier but equally unprepared to undertake the task of rebuilding unless they just happened to have an army of working class grunts cryogenically frozen all this time under their bunkers whom they can thaw and immediately put to the whip rebuilding their society.

So yeah the initial victims were the lucky ones.

 

[Ziggidy]

Let's all pray that never happens.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Training film we played in the background during nuclear exercises.

Another good book to read.

 

[armalitesheepdog]

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

nuclearsecrecy.com

This website is cool. Let's you see how far out from the point of impact the damage would be according to kiloton

 

[armalitesheepdog]

Navel Avionics.

I totaly forgot about Navel Avionics.
Its now Raytheon. Yep....thats a target for sure. Anyone know that in WW2 They built the Norton bomb site?

 

[turnerdye1]

Well this thread took off! Holy crap lol. It seems like it's kind of a split fence when it comes to preparing for this.

I'm in north central Indiana between Kokomo and Fort Wayne. I'm not sure of any targets around me but maybe I'm just unaware. I'd be more worried about a larger bomb being dropped on Indy, Chicago, or Detroit. And obviously if that were to happen the grid would likely be down and fallout would be all over this area depending on wind.

Most the research I've done says that staying hunkered down and sealed in your house for atleast a week afterwards is best to let the fallout decontaminate to a safer level. Obviously you wouldn't want any of that stuff on you but at some point it'd have to happen.

I went ahead and bought the paperback Nuclear War Survival Skills book off of Amazon. W

 

[KLB]

I believe the target here is Ft Ben. Payroll processing center of the military.

Soldiers wont fight if you cant pay them is the theory.

Post nuclear war, I doubt much of anyone is getting paid.

 

[KLB]

Do we have any intercepts to shoot down center of the country nuke strikes that may not happen on the coasts?

The missiles would be coming in over Canada, so unless we had something up there...

 

[Trapper Jim]

Inevitable. Just when is the question. Prepping won’t help much in a Nuke job, but prepping for everything up till then is thinkable. For instance, in a full scale war before the Nukes, common ammo, 9mm and 5.56 will totally be unavailable to citizens. May even be confiscated by Government.

Not so popular ammo (the stuff I use for serious work) having no use to military use will be left alone for the citizens but will not be made because of government controlled ammo resources. Better stock what you have.

Remember, we can’t even provide ammo for us now let Alone wartime.

We haven’t even began to talk about our official arms manufacturing problems and who can do it?

Hope I’m worm food to see it.

 

[armalitesheepdog]

In a all out nuclear war if you survive the initial wave you might as well open a bottle of your favorite adult beverage and prepare to "opt out". Prior to the second wave. Life won't be worth living.
You won't be going to work tomorrow you won't be going to the grocery store you won't be doing anything but dying a slow death from radiation poisoning. Of course I'm talking all out end of time nuclear war.

 

[jsx1043]

As Indy is on the priority hit list and we are on the west end of it there is no prepping. Just wait for the blinding flash of light and the ensuing melt down.

 

[flightsimmer]

Yeah, I'm going out for a coke.

 

[churchmouse]

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Terminator...

 

[Gunmetalgray]

NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

nuclearsecrecy.com

This website is cool. Let's you see how far out from the point of impact the damage would be according to kiloton

Interesting simulation tool