The premise is unrealistic - if there ever was a nuclear war, the first to strike would be the US or Israel, not muh bug bad Norf Kowea.
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Woah thats crazy, the Zionist Occupation would never massacre mass amounts of civillians indiscriminately in horrific ways (or has explicitly threatened usage of nuclear weapons)
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for real. small country that stays in its small part of the world and doesnt really bother anyone? definitely the first to nuke! definitely not the globe spanning empire that has already used nukes at war.
Wait, has something changed in the speed an atomic war would take place in the last 40 years? When I was a teenager in the 80s I could be vaporized from one moment to the next.
We had fucking autobahns and bridges mined with tactical nucles so they could be blown up in order to stop a conventional army.
Maybe fatalism is what you get being a teenager in the 80s living right next to the Iron Curtain.
Doomsday nowadays is an nuclear explosion 200km above a country, back to the 18 Century in milliseconds. Lights off, all electronic devices converted to paperweights, no water, no fuel, no transports, no communication....Mad Max.
Well, at least Twitter would be gone forever.
That happens in the book.
I've always wondered what would happen if someone nuked Antarctica.
Probably wake Cthulu
Fucking finally. Let's do this.
I don't mean to piss in the soup of anyone who just enjoys the topic, but I do want to question the idea that it's important to reflect on the potential for nuclear catastrophe. I think nuclear weapons are here whether we like them or not, and that the average person worrying about nuclear war is as unnecessary and self-destructive as worrying about solar flares or plane crashes. Is that incorrect? Is it possible to eradicate all nuclear weapons? Am I capable of influencing whether or not nukes exist? How might one go about disarming powers which do not want to be disarmed? How do we prevent future creation of nuclear bombs or the keeping of existing ones in secret?
Democracy means you have the illusion of mitigating warmongering, and right to object to your destruction.
To be honest this is only phrasing from people that have never lived under totalitarianism. If you have and then you managed to move or overturn it, you count your lucky stars every day about the ways you can actually affect outcomes in your life.
Of course you are only one voice, but the fact that you’re allowed to organise groups to address grievances is a revolutionary idea that most people that have it barely appreciate it - they think it’s natural and self evident, in fact it isn’t for most of the world.
I can theoretically vote to disarm my own country, but I cannot vote to disarm other countries.
Well you see the problem is you're not voting hard enough, clearly if you just voted dem harder maybe they wouldn't be spineless liberals
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If my city gets nuked, I hope it goes off right above my head. I don't want to live through a second that shit.
Seems like a comfort read.
Her book is so good. Strongly recommend.