Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?

nil@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except you really don’t. Hiroshima was a tiny bomb compared to what’s currently aimed at you.

  A thermonuclear missile can start a fire storm, that’s a fire that creates it’s own weather patterns. This fire storm will be the size of a US state. From a single missile.

  Each state has dozens of missiles aimed at it, just waiting for the launch order.

  The same sort of devastation will hit all of Europe, Russia, China, and basically the entire northern hemisphere.

  It doesn’t matter if you’re in a hardened bunker either, because you’ll just cook alive inside. That’s if your bunker survives at all, because there’s no bunker on earth that can survive a direct hit. Not under the White House, not NORAD, not even most deep mines.

  And since every single nuclear power is “launch on warning”, we’re likely fucked. At any time, we are less than 30 minutes from complete extinction.

  But since there’s literally nothing we can do about it, I just don’t think about it.

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