Nuclear war survival guide reveals seven everyday items if disaster strikes

11 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by Bender
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16 Comments

shalmanese

9 hours ago

One test I now use on survival related material, especially ones written pre-COVID, is how long does it take them before they start talking about how to cut hair.

One thing we learned during COVID was a significant limitation in people's willingness to stay isolated was their hair was getting out of control. It's the exact, boring, unsexy topic that you omit if you're selling the fantasy of survival and you include if you want to cover the boring, day to day logistics.

The entire survival industry is not acquitted well in being revealed as how much the industry is an aesthetic movement.

Systemmanic

12 hours ago

1. Building a shelter

2. Clean drinking water

3. Non-perishable food

4. Radiation fallout meter

5. Valuables, money and vital documents

6. Lighting

7. Protective clothing

embedding-shape

12 hours ago

Slightly more up to date than 1979, the Swedish government recently produced and sent to all residents a "in case of crisis or war" guide that includes a bunch of helpful tips on how to be prepared in case of crisis, and is very concise and easy to read: https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf (some Sweden-specifics, like about all the civil defence shelters being available everywhere, but most things are generic and global advice)

WalterGR

12 hours ago

The guide itself was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876737

comrade1234

12 hours ago

Iran doesn't have nukes and the Obama deal was really good. Iran didn't want to develop nukes. But now it totally makes sense that they should.

warshinder

12 hours ago

Hillary Clinton was interviewed recently and she was refreshingly candid about the glaring problems with the “Obama deal” which most notably was that it did nothing to prevent Iran from amassing a large stockpile of ballistic missiles and giving support to violent factions like the Yemeni’s who you may recall used such to disrupt global trade. It was better than nothing, and maybe good, but it’s worth adding context when someone describes it as “really good.” Hillary Clinton wouldn’t use that phrase.

comrade1234

11 hours ago

Where is this interview? I Haven't heard of this. So now you're trying to equate missiles with a nuke program?

zzgo

9 hours ago

The Iraq War was pushed through under the claim of preventing Iraq from obtaining Weapons of Mass Destruction, which presumably could have included nuclear weapons.

The Bush administration sold the claim in part because of aluminum tubes which they claimed could be used to create ballistic missiles. Clinton, who herself voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, is aware that parts that could be used to build ballistic missiles is pretty much fungible with nukes in a lot of American's minds.

It's not the commenter who is trying to equate missiles with nukes, it's the American political discourse that posited and accepted this claim nearly 25 years ago.

warshinder

2 hours ago

No the point, as I understand it, is that with enough missiles, enforcing the JCPOA becomes impossible. Iran can dominate other regional powers, cause global suffering, decide they want to build nuclear weapons after all and not much can be done to stop them. As we are seeing, they are powerful enough now that Trump isn’t having an easy time winning, and it may even impact the midterms it’s that bad.

warshinder

2 hours ago

I just saw a clip, from the recent 92nd street y interview. I’m not saying missiles are nuclear weapons. I’m simply saying the JCPOA was flawed according to her. Not that she thinks it should have been repealed entirely. She argues Trump could have extended or expanded it, but of course she would say that because she wasn’t the one tasked with renegotiating it with them.

defrost

2 hours ago

It was a good deal that constrained enrichment, allowed human inspectors to roam and legitimately raise complaint if kept from chasing leads, permitted installation of tamper resistant / tamper revealing fixed monitoring instruments.

It addressed neither missiles, late library fees, digital piracy, etc.

It was flawed in the same sense a car is flawed for not being able to pull a 820 Flexi-Coil 18 metre bar, with a 2320 tow behind Flexi-Coil airseeder across a muddy field.

( eg: outside of design scope )

Worth noting also - not just a US deal - a number of other countries had input on the deal and on inspections.

newsomix9xl

7 hours ago

Stockpile whisky - you can disinfect with it, trade it, or drink it and stop caring about the Apocalypse.

WalterGR

3 hours ago

A person would be better off drinking 40% ethanol than relying on it for disinfection. That way the inevitable death from bacterial infection might be a very small amount less horrible.

thehamkercat

2 hours ago

Hey, you can disinfect with it 3 times to get 120%

_fw

12 hours ago

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