https://www.skywatchtv.com/2023/08/22/how-to-survive-nuclear-war-2/
Some people might be tempted to skip or skim over the topic of nuclear Armageddon because they assume the event will be overwhelming or not survivable. Unfortunately for their families, however, those who pass up reading this entry will miss out on essential, life-saving “good news.”
What possible “good news” could there ever be about nuclear destruction coming to America, whether via dirty bombs, terrorist nukes, or intercontinental ballistics missiles (ICBMs) from afar?
In a word, those events are all survivable for the vast majority of American families—that is, for families who know what to do beforehand and who make even modest preparations.
Tragically, though, most Americans today don’t give much credence to—much less seek out—such vital, life-saving instruction because they have been misled by our culture’s pervasive myths that say nuclear destruction isn’t survivable. In fact, most people think that if nukes go off, then everybody will die—or will wish they had. That’s why we hear such absurd comments as: “If it happens, I hope I’m at ground zero and go quickly.”
This defeatist attitude was born as the disarmament movement ridiculed any alternatives to its agenda. The sound civil defense strategies of the sixties have been derided as largely ineffective, or at worst as a cruel joke. With the supposed end of the Cold War in the eighties, most Americans neither saw a need to prepare for nuclear destruction nor believed preparing would do any good. Today, with growing prospects of nuclear terrorism, we see emerging among the public either paralyzing fear or irrational denial. People no longer can envision effective preparations for surviving a nuclear attack. In fact, the biggest surprise for most Americans, if nukes really are unleashed, will be that they are still here!
Most people will survive the initial blasts because they won’t be anywhere close to ground zero—which, of course, is the target of a missile or bomb—and that is very good news. Unfortunately, though, few people will be prepared to survive the subsequent radioactive fallout, which eventually will kill many more than the blast itself. However, there is still more good news: Well over 90 percent of the potential casualties from the fallout can be avoided if the public is trained through an aggressive national civil defense educational program. Simple measures taken by a trained public immediately after a nuclear blast can prevent agonizing injury and death from radiation.