Nukes
You Will Survive Doomsday
By Bruce Beach
Table of Contents
MYTHS
MYTH #23: One of the primary targets will be nuclear power plants.
Many persons come up with all sorts of rationalizations as to why
they should not prepare for survival. One is that there is a sufficient
number of weapons in the world, that if they were all used, they could
destroy the whole of mankind. This is true.
However, it may be that all the weapons will not be used. Some may
be destroyed by the other side. Some may misfire. Others may just fail
to get launched. This is why each side has so many extra. Moreover,
many persons make the mistake of assuming that it is all in man's hands
and determined by man's will. Whatever. It may be that some limited
amount of the potential for destruction will be used.
Another rationalization often heard is that the person feels they
live in a target area such as in the vicinity of a nuclear generating plant.
In actuality the Russians have little need to target the nuclear
generating plants and probably can do more damage by not doing so.
A bomb on the plant would just blow it to smithereens and the material in
the plant might add little to the radioactive fallout. On the other
hand, as a result of the EMP, if the plant is left on its own when it
loses its computer control it will go into a meltdown and add
substantial radioactive material to the atmosphere.
All of this is quite speculative, of course. There are no experts on
nuclear war. There is no one living who has been through one. There is
general agreement that it will be awfully terrible. It will probably
take six or seven months just to bury the bodies. But, there will
probably be someone around to it.
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