For the flee to New Zealand crowd; I am quite curious what will happen when everyone with access to a long range airliner or business jet heads in that direction…
Related, NZ could do with some serious thinking about its inability to enforce airspace sovereignty.
Hope ya have a farm. GL trying to get through an airport, GL trying to drive anywhere.
We thought we were standing on the shoulders of giants, turns out we where standing on cards.
Seems like such a goofy attitude/plan, so many failure modes.
>goofy attitude
Just a little gallows humor. As for planning, I have enough canned food and bottled water in my closet to last about a week. But that's more a plan for lockdowns/etc than for a nuclear war. As long as I live here, I earnestly don't think there is much sense in planning for that.
The only realistic plan for this scenario is to leave before the war even starts.
I started noticing this sentiment on Reddit sometime last year. Usually with some jingoistic fantasy about whatever country the news media told them to hate.
Enough so that quickly scaling a "proper response" just isn't possible. Even if just a single large city (500K+ pop) was hit with a single, typical modern warhead (200-300kt), the results would be covered in history books for the rest of the millennium.
A large scale exchange? The best you could hope for is that you're living in the Southern hemisphere to avoid the immediate horror, though the next 20 years would still be horrific.
I think that was a fear of death cope. Downplaying such events reduces the temporary anxiety of thinking about living in a world where nukes have been unleashed.
It's hard to overstate how annihilating these weapons are to the areas that are struck by them, and how decimating they are even to the population areas not directly struck but heavily dependent on the major population centers.
I don't really see a meaningful distinction between "end of the human race" and merely "end of civilization as we know it", but it's interesting to learn about the current debate among experts.
Particularly not when as big of a chunk of our population believes the rapture is coming in their lifetimes.
For the crowd simply hoping for some variation of On the Beach, you should be aware that a nuclear war in the 2020s would almost certainly see Australia targeted by Chinese nukes.
In an apocalypse scenario, they are just extra mouths to feed - I wouldn't waste any missiles to target rich people's mansions in any country, but the locals might have plans for them...
Fwiw I’d be more disappointed by a belligerent navy coming to show up our strategic shortcomings.