The threat of nuclear war is still very real. While we aren’t still living under the same threat anxiety of the Cold War, some of the bad actor nation-states we have in the world today, might actual be making the risk of nuclear war even greater.
At least during the Cold War, we had stability, with neither side wanting to destroy the world. We can’t say that with any sense of security, when talking about North Korea or Iran, and since Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladmir Putin has been acting like he’d like nothing better than to escalate that war into a nuclear one.
There will always be a risk of nuclear war, as long as nuclear weapons exist. While some think that they can be negotiated out of existence, that’s not going to happen as long as countries like China are increasing their nuclear arsenal.
All it would take is one national leader in a growing number of countries to start lobbing nukes, for the world to experience something much worse than Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Most people have seen the pictures from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, as they are commonly used to show the dangers of nuclear war, as well as the supposed risk of nuclear power plants.
But the message that is conveyed by those pictures isn’t totally true. While some nuclear bombs are the most devastating weapons in existence, there are others which are much less powerful and which would cause much less damage.
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In order to be properly prepared for the possibility of a nuclear attack, we need an accurate picture of the damage those weapons can cause. That’s considerably different than the one we’ve all been told.
Not Everyone Was Killed in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
To start with, we need to go back to the beginning. That’s the two nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, leading to the end of World War II.
While they pictures show utter devastation, those pictures were taken fairly close to ground zero, where the worst damage occurred.
People who were near ground zero died; but the entire population of those cities weren’t killed. Rather, about ¼ the population died, with another ¼ of the population being injured.
That’s still a horrific number of people and the most that have ever been killed by any single weapon. With today’s nuclear bombs being much larger, they would kill even more people, but more people would survive.
You Can Survive a Nuclear Explosion
Chances are pretty high that you will survive a nuclear explosion. Of course, how high your personal chances are depends largely on where you live and work.
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The closer you are to a nuclear explosion, the greater the effect it will have. If we assume that the nuclear bombs are targeted at major cities and military installations, then people living in the center of the city or near military bases will likely be killed, but people living in the suburbs will likely survive.
If a 150 kt nuclear bomb was dropped on a major city the “moderate blast damage” ring would extend 3.74 km from ground zero. This would cause most residential buildings within this radius to collapse, with most people being injured and deaths being widespread.
The “thermal radiation radius,” which is hot enough to cause third-degree burns, would extend 5.26 km. The “light blast damage radius” would extend 10.5 km.
Within this range, windows would shatter, but the buildings would survive, possibly with some minor damage. Most injuries will be caused by things flying through the air, including the shards of broken windows.
Russian Nukes Aren’t All Targeted at Cities
Back during the Cold War, the concept that was used to “keep the peace” was known as “mutually assured destruction”.
The basic idea was that nobody would start a war, knowing that their own country would be destroyed.
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This gave rise to the common misunderstanding that Soviet all aimed at our major cities, with the intent of destroying the civilian population.
While there were undoubtedly some nukes targeted at Washington, DC, New York City, Denver, Los Angeles and other major cities, the vast majority of them were targeted at militarily significant targets, not civilian populations.
Even those which were targeted at population centers were probably targeted at military targets that were in or near those cities. Intentionally killing civilians is not only against the Geneva Convention, but is not an effective war fighting strategy.
A Nuclear War Wouldn’t Leave Us Without a Government
In many of the Cold War movies, imagining what a nuclear war would be like, the United States is left without a functioning government.
This is highly unlikely. While Washington, DC and even some state capitals would be targeted, destroying the seats of government, our government is decentralized enough that the various departments of both federal and state governments would still function.
Our federal government has long had plans to evacuate the President, his Cabinet, Congress, the Supreme Court and other high-level officials in the case of nuclear war.
While those plans will probably not go off without a hitch and some people won’t make it, enough of our federal government’s top leaders would remain, to ensure continuity of government.
Atomic Bombs Don’t “Vaporize” People
There’s a common image of nuclear explosions vaporizing people, buildings and everything else they encounter.
That’s not true.
Nuclear bombs destroy through a combination of the blast wave (we can think of this as a high wind), heat, and radiation.
The intense heat will burn things rapidly and the blast wave will tear things apart, giving the impression of vaporizing; but it’s not actually vaporizing.
Potassium Iodine (KI) Doesn’t Protect You from Radiation
Potassium Iodine is touted as being able to protect those who take it from radiation sickness. That’s not the same as protecting us from the radiation itself.
Rather, it is a very specific protection, against the possibility of radioactive iodine (radioiodine) getting into the thyroid gland, causing radiation sickness.
Potassium iodine is absorbed by the thyroid gland, filling the places where radioiodine would become trapped. In doing this, it protects from this specific threat; but no others.
All Food and Water Won’t be Radioactively Contaminated
There are two types of radioactive risk that we face with any nuclear detonation: direct radiation and fallout. Fallout is dust from the explosion, that radioactive material has attached itself to, making the dust radioactive.
The classic mushroom cloud associated with a nuclear explosion is this radioactively contaminated dust being sucked up into the upper atmosphere. There, it is subject to prevailing winds, which could blow it far from ground zero. As it falls to the earth, the radiation may contaminate whatever it comes into contact with.
This can cause significant danger, both from the radiation from the fallout attacking our bodies and from the radiation contaminating farms and water sources.
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The big problem, is that there is no way of visibly telling whether our food and water is contaminated.
However, we can tell if our food and water are potentially contaminated through the use of a Geiger Counter; something that should be part of our survival gear.
Your Home Can’t Protect You from a Nuclear Explosion
People living outside the blast zone don’t really have to worry about the direct damage caused by the nuclear explosion; but they may have to worry about nuclear fallout.
It’s a good idea to gain an understanding of the prevailing winds where you live, along with what potential targets might be in the area. That will give you the ability to predict where the highest fallout areas will be; at least to some extent.
Since the amount of radioactive material actually attached to any particular piece of fallout is miniscule, the amount of radiation it puts off is small as well. That radiation will be broken down into Alpha and Beta particles, Gamma rays and X-rays.
Your home is adequate protection for the Alpha and Beta particles, which shouldn’t be able to get through the home’s walls and ceilings. Gamma and X rays, on the other hand, will penetrate your home, as well as anything inside your home. However, there shouldn’t be enough of it to cause you any harm.
It should be noted that going down into your basement isn’t really going to provide you with any additional protection from Gamma and X rays.
On the other hand, if you live close to the city, within what could be considered to be the moderate and especially light blast damage zones, being in the basement during the explosion itself can protect you from radiation, blast and heat, especially if you are up against the wall of the basement facing the explosion.
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This was a good post, really! It reminds many of us of the importance of paying attention to “current events” (there’s a phrase I haven’t seen or heard in a long time).
My fear is that it may not be being found by the people who most NEED to be informed, the ignorant/uninformed. I don’t mean stupid ignorant, I mean those who don’t even think about more than the next blockbuster movie or what to put on the weekly shopping list.
North Korea, China, Russia, even Iran, are far less likely to care about damage caused by “dropping the bomb” on us if it comes down to it. If they were to decide this was the way to go, they won’t even likely be concerned about the ramifications of the U.S. continent being as unusable as Chernobyl, with PERHAPS the exception of our farmland, a resource they WOULD value.
Mexico and Canada would probably be considered, if at all, as collateral damage. And neither of their leaders are especially likely to even WANT to object anyway, let alone be in a position to help. Our northern friend(koff koff) Trudeau is practically a dicKtator himself, and Mexico is no longer in control by the supposed gov’t, but the Cartel.
You wrote above,
” Intentionally killing civilians is not only against the Geneva Convention, but is not an effective war fighting strategy.”
Isn’t the very idea of MASS MURDER, ie. nuclear attacks, going against the Geneva Convention? I am the first to confess I do not remember all the conditions set forth in it, so I will defer to anyone who professes to know more, as right now I don’t have the time or inclination to go looking it up at the moment.
KI is on my list of items to get soon, as is a Geiger counter, but I am still trying to find one that is reliable, yet reasonably priced.
Bless those who are trying to be ready, I am trying to, for me and mine.
There is something big coming soon!
Chinese spies gained access to US military bases by posing as tourists, report saysBelieve it or not!
The Chinese nationals getting into secret areas on military bases is not a fluke. Remember the Chinese weather balloons spying on American nuke bases. Until the fearless Manchurian candidate, Let’s go Brandon finally ordered the balloon shot down?
How many spy balloons have crossed the American terrain?
What other operations are in future planning as Chinese nationals cross the open American Southern border?
The Iodine preventative on websites will protect the thyroid from radiation. The preventative is used to displace the invading radioactive iodine from the nuke blast. Follow the instructions on the label.
Still the Marxist are going are bringing back the Covid fearmongering and Dr. F’er is making his appearance to the gullible mask wearing COVID shot Sheeple.
Did the liberals not learn from COVID 1.0 morphing into a 2.0 lockdowns?
Remember how the 2020 presidential election was stolen?
This 2024 will follow a similar pattern to a vital winner take all or nothing situation.
This time they have plan well adjusted by bringing in the public announcements of Covid. Wear a mask, get your poisonous shot. We see Biden, Dr. F got several shots and Covid several times. What does the Covid vaccine really do?
Well some military personnel have developed heart issues. National Security military defense not capable to fight. Like China or Russia maybe?
The Covid scare 2.0 and the FED digital currency are just examples of what to be. As they try to keep Trump from running again. What makes Trump such a danger to the Deep State? I am sure most of us know the answer or answers to that.
Aren’t all elections winner-take-all affairs? ?
It’s Potassium IODIDE, not iodine.
Sloppily-written article made the same mistake.
Please, DON’T be like the person in the show, “Jericho” who DRANK IODINE he was given to “protect” him after he walked for miles through fallout. If that’d have been real, he’d have suffered an agonizing death from the iodine, long before he’d have died from radiation exposure!
Mister Chan.. Id like to AMPLIFY some of your comments regarding the COVID19 vaccines; I hope there are many besides me who have noted the tens of thousands of deaths due to heart issues from people who took the vaccine who were otherwise young and healthy and had NO previous heart issues. More of these young people being in places where vaccines where required.
Iv met many people who have told me they dont want to live a life concerned about nuclear war, that they would rather get vaporized then trying to surviving and dying a slow death from radiation.. It is unfortunate that many of those people who want to keep their head in the sand… will be the ones who will suffer the very thing they wish to escape! A VERY good book for ANYONE who wants to know things to avoid and things TO do .. and its NOT a technical book. You can download the book for free or buy it for about $20. Go to Ki4u.com and you can find it there.
When I hear talk of a nuclear blast demolishing 50 square miles.. this is a HUGE blast.. one must remember that 50 square miles.. is only a SEVEN MILE radius. I dare say there are many nuks that large.
I like this article and think it agrees with pretty much all Iv learned /studied over the decade+.
Personally, I believe if we see a nuk attack, it will be primarily one designed to create an EMP. Probably several. We are so dependent on our technology it will shut the country down in an instant…. and for a LONG time
Iv long encouraged people to read “One Second After”.. and Iv recently ordered “One YEAR After”. I understand it emulates a torn apart post EMP US dealing with different new governments attempting to establish. Some of them pretty tyrannic.
1st.
If someone starts lobbing nukes, they are not going to give a tinkers damn about “The Geneva Convention”.
2nd.
A “High Altitude Air Blast” will create massive EMP damage with very little structural damage, even directly under the blast. Look up a Soviet bomb test on10/22/1962. A 300kt warhead detonation 180mi high over the city of Dzhezkazgen, Kazakhstan.
3rd.
It is the EMP and it’s resulting damage, that we need to be concerned about. An EMP pulse would shut down EVERYTHING electronic within a given radius. That means Power-Plants, Water-Plants, ALL COMUNICATION, cars, security-systems, EVERYTHING. Think about what a small EMP over Wall Street would do, CLICK no power, no computers, no money. MASS PANIC.
In my opinion. They don’t need to destroy our cities. Just our electronics. Then the vast majority of people will destroy ourselves.
L.W. McQueary aka. oldtroll57 at gmail dot com
I Goggled “Effects of a High Altitude Nuclear Blast”. That is where I got the info. above.
Yes, I have to agree with you about the Geneva Convention. Russia and Ukraine are already ignoring it.
If another World War comes along, why would the Convention not be ignored then, as well?
And, why would the enemy want to be unnecessarily destructive, when the goal is to capture our land and resources. Unless, of course, it is a maniac like Biden.
SO right, Wendal..
Still, you know in many places they will very likely still want to do surface blast. West coast has many military bases that are EMP hardened and an enemy will likely want to take out missile silos, bases, and carriers and their home ports that facilitate them.
Years ago many people I might talk to would consider me a bit paranoid by expressing concerns for EMP. And talk of nuclear awareness? Forget it. Well, it takes TIME to be comfortably prepared… unless youre OK with suddenly having to live in a cave!
How many readers know that the highest levels of radiation dissipate within 48 hours? Not saying gone.. but where maximum non-lethal exposure from just after explosion is like 5-10 min .. to like a couple hours-after 48 hours… to many hours after 14 days.. How many people realize that the “radiation suits” you see in the movies have ZERO protection from Gamma/Xray radiation? They principally protect from of ALPHA particles getting into your lungs or ingested. They DO protect from Beta particles (Beta is free electrons and like Alpha are easily blocked by a layer of clothing. Beta particles have little more penetration).
Well, this part of the article is a shame…
“While those plans will probably not go off without a hitch and some people won’t make it, enough of our federal government’s top leaders would remain, to ensure continuity of government.”
If we are going to suffer through any major Nuclear War it would be prudent to get rid of all the politicians ASAP.
After all, they are most likely responsible for all the world’s chaos and problems in the first place!
So, “We The People” should make plans to help eliminate as many of “them” as possible right after the nukes drop. Clean house and start fresh with short term limits and mandatory intelligence tests to judge a candidate’s knowledge of history, economics, morals, ethics, etc., before even being allowed to run for any office!
Let’s Go Brandon! ;))
Yes it is true and even before the upcoming nuclear which they are indicating we need to get rid of the Fake administration of Satan!
The Go Brandon administration, is pulling out all the stops to bring down America before Biden leaves office. Most awaken Americans see through the Wizard of Oz curtain veil of injustice upon America. The woke are puppets of a deadly regime power creeping all fabrics of this nation.
Can the American public bring defeat in 2024?
It is our America in Jeopardy!, of becoming what is not America. Only some hapless Marxist utopia design that will fail where ever it was tried.
What will you Americans do to protect our freedoms?
In my opinion, the Elitists, the One World Government people and their Democrat followers, are pushing for a civil war between the Republicans and Democrats. That way, those in power right now can declare Marshal Law and STOP any and ALL ELECTIONS. They get to stay in power and use OUR own military against us, to insure that they stay in power.
I really don’t think that they would win. I think that 75% of them will cut and run and hide when shit really does hit the fan. That is, unless we keep doing exactly what we are doing now N O T H I N G ! ! !
The Democrats are focused, take over, take over, take over. Meanwhile the Republicans can’t even agree on what time it is. Talk, talk, talk.
The Constitution TELLS us what to do when the elected officials “no longer serve the people”. READ IT !!!!!!!!! The politicians DO NOT run this country. WE the PEOPLE run this country through them. That is how the founding fathers envisioned it and so they wrote down RULES not guidelines or suggestions, but RULES on how this country is to operate as a FREE COUNTRY. Those RULES ARE CALLED the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
I will not “pick a fight”, but when one is brought to my door, I’ll not back down or run from it. That old dog laying on the porch still has teeth, and will fight to his last breath to defend his home. They need to remember that fact, before poking or kicking him.
These are my opinions and I am still free (at least for right now) to express them.
L.W. McQueary aka. oldtroll57 at g mail dot com
The Absulute villiage idiot and his Group of WEF Trained morons will do nothing
Remember agenda is ( 8 billion Depopulation ) and we hear the slip all the time in speaches ( by any means necessary )
That is what Evil Does , obummer is really the head dog in show , not biden
he is the puppett to blame
…very good point – with strong, intelligent, competent leadership, this threat would not be as imminent as it is…
at least for now , your still able to have an appinion , this wont be so for long
The cfr, wef, who will eventially set up the control , imprisionment and incarceration to achieve thier next goal , as they are planning right now
just keep watch on what really happened in maui and do the research and corrolation to other disasters to sell thier agenda , then after much anguish you will see how evil the money groups are and the ( philanderers or money launderers ) , thieves, conmen, crime familys and etc
anyone who can do and not see this with out crying for the dead is dead themselves and have no conscience
If you Turn a blind eye and say this does not exist , you are no better then them , dead men walking
Good article. As far as radiation protection in rural New England, especially in the winter, with either fire bricks or firewood above you and around you (12 inches of wood) will protect you. Most of us in the north country have 6-9 cord of wood to get us through the winter. Water containers are also good (10 inches of water). A house floor can easily handle 600 lbs per square foot.
Dr. Latham – former radiological officer for UT and VA
This is something I was required to carry around with me, something that was asked to show and prove it was on your person on occasion while on the alert pad. Good for giving an idea to people unfamiliar what considerations are necessary.
US AIR FORCE RADIATION DATA CARD
Dosimeter. For working in lit off spaces/ships. All our sub sailors wore them and our weapons dept and security personnel aboard the tender.
It is still a guess to what will happen if America is nuked. We do have historical records to base speculation on. Are those truly what the public sees as truth. What other records are being kept under wraps to the true nature of a nuclear war before, during and after effects to us?
Those records were based on smaller nukes used in World War 2 and tests sites. Some of these modern nukes are much more powerful.
The other side of the coin, Russia may try to nuke us or the lessor countries like North Korea and Iran would.
In reality Chinese has a lot of purchased farmland here to destroy valuable sources for their starving nation. Think about that.
Todays nukes are a thousand times stronger. Nobody survives in the northern hemisphere.
The size of nuclear warheads has dropped significantly since the Cold War because the targeting has become so much more accurate. Their numbers have dropped significantly, toom due to treaty obligations. That does not mean that nuclear war will not be terrible.
You are spreading defeatist “facts” in order to serve a personal agenda.
It is better to take out the head honcho and his loyal crew than whisk a nuke war no one really wants. You can read between the lines on that.
Even if the wealthy, rich or elite do survive in their bunkers of pessimism to breath fresh air again. Someone somewhere will get them for what they did to our world, our nations, our people. God, Jesus will judge in the end.
Some will expedite the process sooner in God’s name of justice. Think so or not, if we survive we will find out.
There is too much fearmongering nuke bargain chips floating around about nuke wars in the future. Since the Cold War Era we have been plunged into a nuke war manipulation to change people’s minds. Of who or what to trust in. Some people as kids in the mid to late 20th century were bombarded with the nuke war intimidation’s.
School kids hiding under flimsy desk to be safe from a nuke. All those home nuke shelters to be safe were a joke too.
Do people think they really want to survive after a nuke attack?
Look at the Cold War test sites, Pacific island sites, Chernobyl disaster, Fukushima nuclear disaster. The nuke storage sites, potential leakage into the groundwater. Some areas are totally restricted to anyone because of dangerous radiation levels for decades to come.
Don’t believe God would let total nuke destruction happen. We still have the future Armageddon War in the Middle East yet to come.
Many politicians have made retirement profits off the nuke war scares since mankind developed the A & H bombs of fear.
Acctually never changed , and infact , more , and better target with multiple targets per head
you see , it really does not matter , once the shooting starts , the fall out will travel for years around the globe and you cannot stop the retalliation of other countries
The hate formed in the mind s of people will be soo bad , they will do what thier master the devil tell s them , just destroy , God Fogives , SATAN destroys, decieves, lies , he is the author of Evil
Worse than that. One prolific analyst Steven Starr briefed the UN a few years back and demonstrated even a limited nuclear exchange on the India-Pakistani border would wipe us all out with the ensuing nuclear winter.
ABOUT NUCLEARFAMINE.ORG AND STEVEN STARR
Why bother to nuke us when we have conveniently placed dirty bombs all over the country? What am I talking about? The clean, renewable nuclear power plants. The problem is the spent fuel rod storage. An EMP would ensure that all of them went critical in about 2 weeks. The plants themselves would shut down but failure to blast water continuously into the spent fuel pools results in a critical meltdown spewing plumes of nuclear waste across the country side. A dime sized piece of Cs137 will render a county uninhabitable for generations.
If you think you shelter, some iodine, and a geiger counter is going to save you, you are delusional.
While this article mentions Alfa and Beta particles cannot penetrate the skin, ingestion (Beta particles in particular) by breathing or swallowing is very dangerous. Face protection that can filter dust is a good idea. Potassium Iodine might not treat radiation sickness, by if radiation particles are able to park in the Thyroid, you are in big trouble. We had a bottle of Potassium Iodiine Pellets in our survival kit primarily for water purification and it is good idea for health in a survival situation, nuclear or non-nuclear… Much better idea than Chlorine.
Here is something we were required to carry, in my past occupation, though this is just a photo of it, copying the image to another tab and making a copy of it isn’t a bad idea… Yes, I still have my SAC Form 673 in my desk drawer.
US AIR FORCE RADIATION DATA CARD
The author stated, “It should be noted that going down into your basement isn’t really going to provide you with any additional protection from Gamma and X rays.”
Wrong. Wrong. Triple wrong. Extraordinarily wrong. The deeper below ground, the greater protection from fallout that remains on the surface soil, The further you are from the roof, the better off you will be.
Yeah that works in areas that don’t have rocks, clay, hard soils most people would have a heck of a time digging. A backhoe would work. Most want that prep to be secret. So city, suburban areas would be too obvious to do. Those areas are where most of the modern population are living at.
It all sounds great on paper, everyone has a plan until they punched, then reality hits! – Tyson.
They “May – Get Me” but I may Not be Easy ? : For Radiation – I have a Full Size : CD – Gieger Counter I have had for a long time.
More likely important, to me, Thousands of rds of 9mm & 223/556 ammo.
Several Guns – All 9mm and AR’s(Fully Outfitted and shoot often in Combat Competitions).
I Have Field Sewer Lines so cannot dig out back – to bury Anything.
I Keep all this in full basement, where “I” stay/live also. “It will Have to Do”. Dry and Cool at least, and Handy, and “Under Ground”.
Perhaps More important to Me –
I have shot in a Combat-Competition Pistol and Multi-gun Match most every month for the last 10yr – Rain, heat, sleet or snow. Pistol, Rifle, PCC.
High Speed “But” Accurate Shooting required. Shoot and Move & “While Moving”.
I am also a – State and DHS Certified Pistol Instr & RSO.
(Took 3 wks Training and $3k to get those – at – State Training Facility). Also – Ranked/Competition – Defensive Pistol and Combat Rifle Shooter.
“Conceal Carry” All day, Every Day, always.
“They” “Leroy” – May “Get Me” – BUT it likely will not be Easy ? Could get LOUD 🙂
Where the hell is the map?
Where’s Waldo?
There are plenty other websites that have these paranoia maps available to the public.
It is the classified maps restricted from the public that we need.Those may get leaked out eventually by the gatekeepers of odd knowledge.
For those who believe they will survive a nuclear attack, I would reccomend reading “ALAS BABYLON”. Although dated in many ways, it shows what would be termed the ‘secondary effects’ of a nuclear war and how to work to survive those.
I’m curious as to how we will be warned about a coming attack.
Growing up during the Cold War in the ’60s as a kid, there were alarm sirens. We had drills for what to do if the siren went off. Once a year, we practiced walking home (if there was enough warning) or to an assigned neighborhood home if ours was too far to walk.
I’ve asked my school aged grandchildren about this, and they say they’ve never heard of any type of civil defense preparation…not in those words, of course.
Maybe they expect us to find out from the news or internet? I’ve never heard. Something I’ll have to look into.
It’s sad that the only people who seem to be concerned are preppers. Even the members of my church, which is big on preparedness, are not as prepared or concerned as they should be.
I try to involve my family, asking them if they have an emergency kit for each family member or some extra water even, but they think I’m a crazy lady!
It won’t work to alert you in time.
Take a look at the recent Maui Demoncrat run emergency debacle.
The warning system had one siren alarm for a tsunami warning. There was no alarm warning sound for a fire emergency. Since they rarely have large “Wildfires” there.
How many different warning alarm sounds are there in most civil defense/FEMA related warning alarm systems? Probably just one sound and when was the last time the public heard the warning systems tested recently?
If your watching a TV program we might get a ticker tape overlay warning. Like beware a tornado or hurricane is coming in 2 hours, get to safety.
Congress and other political agencies will have been warned way ahead of the public before the disaster strikes. Your tax dollars are at work, paid for by……..
It was a valid concern to NOT sound the sirens in Maui, because locally it would be interpreted as TSUNAMI warning and drive people to move INLAND TO HIGHER GROUND. Unfortunately, THAT was where the fires were!
So. In my area of Texas…the sirens also have AUDIO BROADCAST CAPABILITY. You can be directed to tune to a local station for emergency information. A text push notification system is being improved for cell phones, as GPS ACTIVE 9-1-1 rolls out in some areas.
It is important to understand WHY the sirens might sound. It may vary locally. Here, it is for straight line winds>65 mph (hurricane force), killer hail, and tornado warning. No tsunamis or forest fires. Knowing is half the battle. So keep your head on swivel and plan to look for phone alerts, tune to local channels. However, tv stations no longer interrupt programming like they used to, to serve the needs of the community…its getting pushed off to digital platforms and the FCC ALLOWS IT!
KI dosing has practical age limits, most sites list 18-40 , after 40 it’s not much help. Do you have a well for water? Have you made up a couple of well buckets yet? Do you know how much rope, or cable you’ll need to reach the static level? If a deep well, do you have the materials to make up a tripod and at least one pulley? Canned food is usually viable if washed first with clean water. Learn the basics.
Although well written, the article is about another existential threat that is understood and can be prepared for. One among many. The Great Correction will not resemble anything familiar to us. No physical preparation will suffice unless spiritual preparation has first been made. For 6000 years we’ve been shown what is good and what is expected of us. These comments about Republicans and Democrats, Russians and Chinese or any other boogymen reveal ignorance of the enemy, into whose hands we deliver ourselves.
spent year in this field
Trust no one , especially the media , big tech, college morons and anyone who claim s to be the expert
When this happens and is a matter of time , 1/3 of the earth will be destroyed as the bible predicts , mankind will destroy them selves , thinking them selves to be wise , they became fools and sought after thier own wisdom , and desires
Clearly written in scripters , if you care to read , research, learn about it
NO where to hide from the fall out , not the direct hit, the fall out
When idiots allow morons, idiots, perverbs , and absolute unqualified WEF Trained to run our countries into the ground , This is what you get
Consequence of Actions , ways of life , and REJECTION of truth
all about social acceptance , nothing more , live and let them convert, pervert , destroy any self control , this is what happens
M A D figure it out
look and see how may countries are getting the Nukes , see if God is Right
See how armed to the Teeth , and amounts of weapons , See if God is Right
Cry out for repentance , change , forgiveness and see if God will forgive
This “government” of ours has done almost EVERYTHING it can to first cause the problems surrounding us right now, and then escalating them by crossing red lines; tanks, depleted uranium, cluster munitions, and F-16’s. Russia didn’t start this. We did. So if the balloon goes up, we have our government to thank. Keep prepping.
The old guestimates, as in this article, were based on kilotons … the current payloads are megatons, and thousands of them. Blasts are projected to overlap, and EMP’s are speculated to penetrate up to two miles of solid rock. (NORAD did the current studies) The old data no longer applies.
The second sentence in paragraph 2 reveals that the author is clueless about geopolitics. “We can’t say that with any sense of security, when talking about North Korea or Iran, and since Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladmir Putin has been acting like he’d like nothing better than to escalate that war into a nuclear one.”
Russia does not want to escalate into a nuclear war and anyone who thinks that is not paying attention. The Russians invaded Ukraine for two reasons: 1) stop the killing of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and 2) to pre-empt Ukraine from launching a full scale military assault on the city of Donetsk, predominantly Russian. The documents of Kiev’s intent to launch a military assault in March 2022 were found in the Ukrainian army headquarters in Mariupol and posted on the Internet in May 2022 for the world to see what Ukraine had planned. The conflict is a proxy war between the combined West and Russia. Biden said the goal of the US is regime change in Moscow and a week later, Lloyd Austin stated that the goal of supporting Ukraine was to weaken the Russian military. Both goals have backfired because Putin’s approval in Russia is 83% today compared with less than 30% for Biden. The Russian military is now stronger that it has ever been since Putin took office. The goal of Russia is to demilitarize the Ukrainian army so that it is no longer a national security threat to Russia, and to de-Nazify the government in Kiev. How would Americans react if Russia or China overthrew the government in Mexico and positioned 80,000 soldiers on the US/Mexico border? That is exactly what the US did in Ukraine. In 2014, VP Joe Biden authorized the funding of minority Nazi organizations who overthrew the government in Kiev. The Maidan was a US sponsored coup that brought Bandera worshippers to power who immediately invaded eastern Ukraine and began ethnic cleansing the native Russian populations who had lived there for centuries. After eight years of Ukrainian army operations in Donbas, over 14,000 Russians had been killed, according to UN watchdog groups. To suggest that Russia invaded Ukraine without mentioning that Ukraine provoked Russia on behalf of the US is to completely misunderstand the reasons for the conflict and to ignore that the US funded Nazi elements like Azov, Aidar, Svoboda, and Right Sektor. These thugs are the descendants of Ukrainians who collaborated with the German SS in WW II as part of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS — also known as the Galicia Division. If the author gets this part so wrong, why should we trust the rest of the article? If anyone starts a nuclear war, it will be the US out of desperation because the combined West underestimated the Russian military and did not adequately prepare for war. Americans have no clue that the US lost the arms race to Russia fifteen years ago and a war with Russia will be suicide. The Russian Constitution states that Russia will not use nuclear weapons unless attacked first. The US is losing in Ukraine and it will be Afghanistan II for the Biden clowns. The US is the only country in the world to have used nukes in the past and Bush the idiot declared that the US has the right to use nukes first if a threat is perceived. We have had Russia hating morons in the White House and in the foreign policy establishment for decades and the US can not be trusted not to launch a first strike to divert attention from losing in Ukraine. The tragic part is that over 400,000 Ukrainians are dead because of Biden.
How many inches is 3.7 KM?
Large American cities would not be targeted because they are large and as if harming civilians is the goal. Most of the largest of cities have major shipping and rail ports (NYC, Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, etc.). Washington DC is the major Military and Government Operations City. There are towns that could be targeted if they can rapidly build the equipment needed to power anything that a country c/would use as a critical transport power device for military or civilian use (like jet, rocket or major-craft shipping engines). First strikes are Communications (satellites and power) because it is easy and quick; then military bases (silos, submarine, and aircraft). After that would be focus on bottle-necks (choke points): bridges (like on the Mississippi); or places where multiple major interstates cross, in or near, a city. USA has done its own in-country strutting, such as in the early to mid 2010s (I believe it was when Obama was President)–maybe you saw it on TV–the two “un-armed nukes” he fired over (I think it was San Diego) at civil-twilight sundown (sky was lit up, but sun was down, news media photographed the rockets flying towards N/Korea (to see it). Shortly after that USA performed in USA cities and several rural areas–Operation “Jade Helm”–to scrutinize activity, work with “captured locals” (Police and National Guard) and create Martial Law (stay indoors or be shot). That was also when Obama did delivered armored personnel carriers to most all major cities in USA; and did the Bullet-grab to arm all USA Departments (including the IRS) and changed “target posters” to show rural white families (like a mom and two kids, one boy or one girl) holding guns–the idea being “shoot to kill” if they are holding guns and on their property; and back then Democratic Presidents (Obama/VP Biden, and now Biden want all Americans disarmed.