what to do during nuclear winter?

Question

if there was a ww3 with nuclear weapons, what would be the best thing a person could do to avoid radiation? how would the gov't provide for the remaining people?

Answer 1

Hide in the basement for a few years.

Answer 2

It wouldn't matter if you were able to avoid the radiation. The whole world would die and everything in it!

Nuclear war is a problem that can be treated only theoretically. It is not amenable to experimentation. Conceivably, we have left something important out of our analysis, and the effects are more modest than we calculate. On the other hand, it is also possible-and, from previous experience, even likely-that there are further adverse effects that no one has yet been wise enough to recognize. With billions of lives at stake, where does conservatism lie-in assuming that the results will be better than we calculate, or worse?

Many biologists, considering the nuclear winter that these calculations describe, believe they carry somber implications for life on Earth. Many species of plants and animals would become extinct. Vast numbers of surviving humans would starve to death. The delicate ecological relations that bind together organisms on Earth in a fabric of mutual dependency would be torn, perhaps irreparably. There is little question that our global civilization would be destroyed. The human population would be reduced to prehistoric levels, or less. Life for any survivors would be extremely hard. And there seems to be a real possibility of the extinction of the human species.

It is now almost 40 years since the invention of nuclear weapons. We have not yet experienced a global thermonuclear war -- although on more than one occasion we have come tremulously close. I do not think our luck can hold forever. Men and machines are fallible, as recent events remind us. Fools and madmen do exist, and sometimes rise to power. Concentrating always on the near future, we have ignored the long-term consequences of our actions. We have placed our civilization and our species in jeopardy.

Answer 3

except for the blast zones, the radiation would dissipate fairly quickly - within a week or so. The problem isn't radiation. The Nuclear Winter would last weeks or months. Complete darkness. Everything dies, temperature doesn't rise above freezing.

After it clears (probably within a year) the world would be "ok" though it would take a while or things to start growing again. The government would do well to provide cyanide. Faster and more humane than radiation poisoning or starving to death.

Answer 4

You will be on your own.

The government at local levels would most likely collapse.

The government at State levels would be busy trying to defend the states resources by invoking martial law.

The government at Federal levels would hide the truth, and would do everything in their power to convince you of their lack of culpability - which may in fact be true.

Best to stock up on

1. Potassium iodide

Potassium iodide may also be used to protect the thyroid from radioactive iodine in the event of an accident or terrorist attack at a nuclear power plant, or other nuclear attack, especially where a nuclear reactor is breached and the volatile radionuclides, which contain significant amount of 131I, are released into the environment. Radioiodine is a particularly dangerous radionuclide because the body concentrates it in the thyroid gland. Potassium iodide cannot protect against other causes of radiation poisoning, however, nor can it provide any degree of protection against a dirty bomb unless the bomb happens to contain a significant amount of radioactive iodine.

2. Food

3. Guns and Ammunition

Answer 5

Uh...it would be total anarchy. The people "fortunate" enough to survive will have to live in a horrible world. Some will probably be deformed and riddled with cancer, and I often wonder if the new animals born will be crazy monsters because of the radiation. There will be no government, and no form of communication. The phones and radios and tv's will not work. Pretty much it will be the guy with the biggest gun is the guy who gets to eat.

Answer 6

I am afraid that many of us will be on our own. The goverment will try to protect vital services, which is themselves first, then military bases, hospitals, the civillians, etc. later. Of course, radiation would be a huge concern- but surviving through a nuclear war would be surprising if you are close to targeted places.

Answer 7

I believe that anyone who survives a bit of that nasty radiation will be forevermore equipped with sudden super-human powers; such as strength to tear down walls with their bare hands and the ability to set fire to trees and hairdos. I pity the fool who messes with a post-apocalyptic superhero!

Answer 8

What you do during nuclear winter is build glowing snowmen....

Seriously, don't worry about it.
Unless you've got a bunker in Montana and a lifetime food supply you're toast.

Answer 9

Die. The government will only protect themselves. I'll bet they won't even tell us the missles are flying until it's too late. "To avoid mass panic" is what they will say to themselves to absolve any guilt.

Answer 10

bend over, put your head between your legs and kiss your a** goodbye. hang on I need 'hiccup' another drink...