As if there’s going to be a world left living in after a nuclear war ends. In the US, the most frightening aspect of life in a nuclear war would be the rapid regression to tribalism and infighting rather than the exposure to radiation, though with the winds and weather patterns, that would make it moot for the vast majority anyway.

There will be all out panic and irrational behavior will predominate. Things will break with nobody to fix them. Services we take for granted will suddenly trap us or kill us indirectly. No communication will be easy or quick.

Moreover, the long term effects on the environment from massive nuclear detonations and debris lingering in the atmosphere would make the country live in something out of a Cormac McCarthy novel. Abandon all hope even if you are rich enough to have a bunker; life just simply won’t be worth living once there’s a first strike.