When nucleor war comes, where in the u. s. is the best area to live.?

Question

where would you move to if you knew it was comeing,

Answer 1

The Alaskan wilderness is probably your best bet. Most targets of ICBMs are industrial bases, military bases, and missile silos.

Take a look at this site. It gives some locations of the various missile silos around the country. The midwest is one of the worst places to be:
http://www.siloworld.com/COORDINATES/LOCAL.htm

Every state in the union has a military base or two or four. Most of the coastal shipping will be targeted. Population centers like New York City and Los Angeles, certainly. Holing up in the Rocky mountains might be an option, but you'd have to dodge radioactive clouds and fallout drifting by from the prevailing winds. It can be done. Most radiation from fallout dissipates within 6 weeks.

Yep. A little log cabin up in the vastness of the Alaskan wilderness. Even if the Chinese invade, it'll be decades before they wander by my hidden canyon up in the frozen north. I'll be eating caribou and fish, and playing my guitar with frozen fingers. Let 'em come get me.

Answer 2

You are naive to think you can survive.

In November, 1980, a group of physicians and scientists held a symposium at the University of California in Berkeley. At this symposium Dr. Kosta Tsipis, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stated,

. . . our earth is surrounded by a thin layer or ozone. Ozone is a particular isotope of oxygen that has the lovely property of absorbing much of the ultraviolet rays of the sun. The ultraviolet rays of the sun are the ones that cause skin burns. When you go to the beach and you get sunburned, that's what does it. In addition, the ultraviolet rays of the sun blind eyes that are exposed to them for any period of time. The very fact that we can exist on this earth—that there is a fauna, animals with eyes on this earth—is based on the existence of the ozone layer that filters out most of the ultraviolet rays of the sun and therefore allows us to survive.

What happens when a nuclear weapon explodes is that a very large number of nitrogen oxides are generated by the radiation that flies out from the explosion. As a matter of fact, a one- megaton weapon will generate 10 molecules of nitrogen oxides. These molecules are lifted up together with the fireball, and reach (for a one-megaton weapon) the altitude of say 50, 60, 70 thousand feet, where the ozone is. At that point, these molecules will start eating up the ozone— literally—taking it away from circulation . . . for long periods of time. It is a very complex photochemical process, but we know that it occurs . . . . The National Academy of Sciences felt quite sure to state that if you have exploded . . . in a very short period of time 50% of the weapons that will be available in the arsenals of the Soviet Union and the United States by 1985, this simultaneous explosion will create enough nitrogen oxides to take out 50 to 70% of the ozone layer above the northern hemisphere and 30 to 40% of the ozone layer in the southern hemisphere, because we assume that all of these explosions will take place in the northern hemisphere . . . .

The latest word out of the scientific laboratories is that a 20% depletion of the ozone layer will allow enough ultraviolet light to come to earth that it will blind all unprotected eyes. Now, we can all wear glasses, but the animals and the birds will not wear glasses, and they will all be blinded and they will all eventually die. And this is the largest-scale ecological catastrophe that one can imagine—that all the fauna on the earth will be blinded and eventually die.

I can think of nothing else that is a more massive ecological dislocation — to use a mild word. The entire ecosystem will collapse. Because if we don't have insects, for example, to pollinate the flowers, we won't have fruit . . . . The whole thing collapses, and that is what will happen, most probably, if only 50% of the weapons in the arsenals of the two superpowers in 1985 were to be exploded within a few days in a nuclear war.

If you're within a few miles of a nuclear detonation, you'll be incinerated on the spot!

And if you survive the blast, what does the future promise?

The silent but deadly radiation, either directly or from fallout, in a dose of 400 rems could kill you within two weeks.

Your hair would fall out, your skin would be covered with large ulcers, you would vomit and experience diarrhea and you would die of infection or massive bleeding as your white blood cells and platelets stopped working.

If you have less exposure to this deadly radioactivity, you may develop leukemia in five years.

Hiroshima survivors were thirty times more likely to have this fatal disease than the unexpected population!*

(*Between 1945 and 1963 several hundred thousand soldiers were marched through areas where the Nevada atomic weapons tests were conducted. The rate of leukemia among these men had been 400 times the national average! Shut Down, p. 165, The Book Publishing Co., 1979.)

A smaller amount of exposure sets you up for cancer in twelve or more years.

Even a tiny invisible particle of plutonium is so radioactive that it can cause cancer or alter your genes so that your children may be deformed at birth!

Plutonium has been called "thalidomide forever."

Answer 3

no where would be good, Alaska has oil, Hawaii has Pearl Harbor and all other places would be equally adequate to take down. The best place to live would be New Zealand, seriously.

Answer 4

Antarctica
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Answer 5

Underground, way underground. Maybe some of those really big caves in Kentucky come to mind.

Answer 6

Iowa

Answer 7

In the White House. You know they're gonna save their asses ...so that's where i'd like to be hanging out. I would just have to be in a different room than Bush.....eeeeeek!!

Answer 8

Right next to a primary target- it's quick and painless that way.