People Don't Think Hard Enough About What Nuclear War Is and What It Would Mean
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Link does a 403 in Cyrillic letters for me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625064136/https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/24/people-dont-think-hard-enough-about-what-nuclear-war-is-and-what-it-would-mean/
...give this a whirl matey....
The Day After ( made in early 80’s) scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
....dittos...
...and wasn't a kid....
For me "the 100" series hits pretty close.
I don’t have Netflix to watch it.
I think that media from TV shows, to movies to video games has lead people to believe that they'll be the ones to survive (obviously because everyone's the hero in their own story).
In addition, we've been so inundated with post apocalypse fiction that many people have become jaded to it. The fear that people had about it in the 50's has completely dissolved and is even routinely mocked now.
...valid observation, nicely stated and framed....
That is so true. I just looked up some details about the Russian Tsar Bomba. It was the largest nuclear device ever made and I think they only made one but they did test it.
I imagined such a bomb being detonated over London, UK. Buildings right into the north midlands could be damaged while London would be vapourised. The flash would be visible in Lerwick which is a town on an island to the north of Scotland and it might also be seen in Bilbao which is a city in Spain.
Luckily, the Russians decided the weapon was somewhat impractical but nuclear missiles are typically far more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb so destroying cities in one strike is to be expected.