Kurzgesagt Explains what would happen if we nuke a city. My thoughts + commentary on the subject plus a literary recommendation. Leave yours down below!
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPH-br_eJQ&t=3s
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You said "un-realising", thank you for reminding me I'm not alone 😂
The idea that we can wish nuclear weapons away at this point is pure fantasy. The horrifying reality is the only reason no nation has deployed a nuclear weapon on another sonce WW2 is fear of the reprisal. The genie, as the expression goes, is out of the bottle.
Ukraine also denuclearization… I don't know tbh. Just like you need police or soldier with gun for protection
I imagine the services would use drones and robots to scan for survivors and provide resources.
Posession of a Nuclear Weapon should be a War Crime.
I had never truly considered how it would play out but seeing it explained this way seems truly horrifying… not sure I'd want to survive such an event if I was in the city where it happens! While I'm sure there are emergency plans to at least try and help the survivors, this only works in a scenario like this where it's only one hit and not an all out war. I don't know that it's possible to live in a world free of nukes, or any weaponry for that matter, I think it comes with being who we are. As humans and living beings like any other, I think it's part of our nature to seek an advantage over others even if you could argue that it's no longer needed today since our survival isn't really threatened anymore like it might've once been the case ages ago.
Peter Watkin's 'The War Game', while commissioned by the BBC to document what a limited nuclear strike would do if it targeted Kent (UK), was censored for 25 years, because he took his commission very seriously, and no-one wanted to see that.
Scenes where police officers shoot fatally injured survivors as an act of mercy (because the country runs out of ran out of pain killers) really brought home the impact of these things.
Gruesome, and recommended watching.
Pretty sure we already did that 2 times
You live in fantasy land if you think countries will give up there nukes never ever going to happen
leaders are the problem. we've never needed them.
"Is it feasible to denuclearize in a non utopian society" – no, of course not. We don't even manage to have something like international courts who have jurisdiction over every country. Without something like a real "world government" (not the toothless UN that has no power over anybody) there is no banning of nuclear weapons.
I really love Nukes.But I would never actually detonate on.
As for being underground, eventually fallout would trickle to the ground.
Okay, but when we open this Pandoras box there is no way back.
Only humans would be dumb enough and create nukes. Smh.
I think that's why governments dont really use them as they know there is no way to save yourself from mutual ulitmate destruction. That and the weather and water would spread the radiation very far.
When a nuke is detonated it pushes out all of the air for miles. A second shockwave hits everything as the air rushes back in. Something the video didn't bring up.
For once I have a literary recommendation: "Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn" or "The last children of Schewenborn" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Children_of_Schewenborn . A detailed view of live in the aftermath of a full nuclear war.
Cholera, radiation sickness, drinking water from the swimming pool because it is chlorinated, breakdown of society, famine, mother dying during labor, malformed baby that is killed by dad…all through the eyes of a child.
A nuke can destroy about 80 square miles, which is far less than 500 square kilometers. The stand blast covr around .5 kilometers not 2 kilometer. While I get the point of increasing damage for fear purposes it actually harms people for planning how to survive.
Get away fron large cities now🎉
To answer the question what to do when you're safely underground during an explosion: wait as long as you can because the radioactive fallout. Create some kind of filter to breath through and swallow as much iodine as your stomach can handle….and don't expect any help. A single nuclear blast in one city is a very unlikely scenario. If someone dropped the bomb, it will NOT be the only one. Missiles were sent back and forth by the dozens. Move as far away from the blastsites and only eat food from greenhouses. Hope you'll survive, but be sure to carry a shovel at all times. You'll need it to bury many of your friends and family.
Protesting against nukes is like protesting against crime. It's a utopia, and even if temporarily achieved, it would be an unstable equilibrium.
De-nuclearisation will never happen. Certainly USA, Russia and China won't. I think Putin just wants an excuse to launch one in Ukraine. Doubt it, but Xi would surely think about it for Taiwan if they don't capitulate. As for Kim Jong Un he is probs the most dangerous. Maybe they want to flex their, hmm small muscles. The horror that would ensue considering the WW2 ones are tiny compared to the latest ones. Perhaps dirty ones are the most likely, conveniently by terror groups affiliated to certain authoritarian countries who of course deny it and so the social media propaganda war begins…
This video was ruined by the preachiness of their political stance. Nukes ARE necessary because if everyone had it, no one would use it. But if we vow not to make it, it only takes 1 rogue country to instantly rule the world.
yeah demand they disappear. That will work.
wait what? who is we? what city?
There are things even non-preppers can do immediately after a nuclear explosion if they know what to do beforehand. The video link below tells you why you should know (even before the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine). Here is the best summary I can find in a Ted Talk; many of the things are very counter-intuitive and it is interesting even if you aren't seriously concerned: https://youtu.be/tW7IgKJWtqk
I love the way you forgo the long intros. I also find your commentary quite engaging. Your input greatly enhances every topic you cover.
It is always refreshing to listen to someone so intelligent, yet so humble.
Thanks!
I'm surely not an expert, but I see what I believe is an inevitable course to another world War. Besides nukes, biological weapons are at the ready. Cities are doomed.