> While of course we should try to prevent it, we should also try to mitigate the consequences in the even a war does occur!
I used to have an old Stanford Research Institute report from the 1980s where the author tried to project that if the US and USSR had a full scale nuclear war, US GNP would be back to normal within five years.
Who knows what government bureaucrat had a program requiring an Orwellian report like to justify whatever policy.
Who is this we? If you want to store up MREs and tin foil hats and build a bomb shelter, be my guest. Most of our efforts will be to prevent a large-scale nuclear war from happening or needing to happen.