I recently saw a comment chain about nuclear bombs, and that led me to thinking about this. Say there is a nuclear explosion in the downtown of my US city. I survive relatively fine, but obviously the main part of the city has been destroyed, while major zones extending from the center were also badly damaged. What would be a good response to (a) survive and (b) help out the recovery effort?
It’s there, near the blast zone. Everything will be irradiated. Everything.
People act like this will be survivable. It isn’t, not with current nuclear weapons. If the blast and shock wave don’t kill you, the radiation will. Or if you were lucky enough to be in a bunker, and you don’t have enough food and water, you will starve before it’s safe to leave.
The best case scenario is to die instantly in the blast. Second best is a bullet before your body literally falls apart from radiation poison.