A nuclear war is survivable

Thank you ;) [quote]Why do you think the town of Chernobyl has never again been built on ? because they cant , because its to dangerous , no matter how much radiation is on this ground it is . Radiation , I believe does not disappear significantly for decades and may remain for 100's of years.[/quote] Yes. You remeber the problem about the man crossing the street? A man wants to get to the other side of the street. On the first day, he walks half the distance, so he's halfway. On the second day, he walks half of the REMAINING distance. On the third day, he walks half of the remaining distance and so on. When does the man get to the other side of the street? Never. It's the same with radiation. It may decrease to be veeeeery small, but there will always be some. After a year the amount of radiation would be about 0,000000000...01 REM. If you remain in a good shelter for a month or two you shouldn't be afraid of radiation. [quote]The stats about radiation you presented , are questionable . There have been mothers giving birth all the way in Sweden , to mutated baby's , who were concevied after Chernobyl , may I remind you that , these mothers were thousands of miles away from the town of Chernobyl itself and may I remind you these babies where conceived years after the blast ?[/quote] Actually, I was born and lived for most of my youth in Finland. My parents told me about how Chernobyl affected Finland, a neighbouring country to Sweden and Russia. They were advised not to eat berries or swim in lakes. They had to watch what they were eating, but as you see, they didn't die and I'm not malformed. Actually, I'm very healthy and normal young man. With the right precautions taken, you can and will survive fallout. Just like my parents did. [quote]I agree its human nature to survive and god , I have seen things that are unbelievable , with my eyes and on to . But sure humans will try to survive , out of every 1million people in the city attacked by the blast , you would be lucky if 10,000 survive past a month and even if 5000 could make it a year , then after that they will continue to die away without help.[/quote] No. When the radiation is reduced enough, men would rebuild their lives. They would build a house of some kind and start planting and harvesting corn, wheat, apples etc. Anything that can be grown. After they've gotten used to their Medieval life, they would likely start to look for survivors, and when a large group of survivors is joined, they can build a town, and so on. [quote]Now back to the food problem , say I have a family of 4 . Do you think 2 chickens will be enough ? what do you expect the chickens to eat as well. There will be very few animals alive from a blast , but never mind the blast were in a city not a small town with farms. Crops may grow but will most likely be contaminated and would also take a long time for everybody to grow crops , they would be long dead before a month.[/quote] Reproduction? Also, I'm quite sure they can keep themselves alive by looking around the wastes for canned foods and so on. Think about the first settlers in America. They could survive with little or nothing, why couldn't we? [quote]Now away from food , you say the Russian targets are American military bases , ok but like I said you don't think the usa have thought of nukes attacking there secret bases ? They are most likely underground or well protected against a nuclear attack. The only way to destroy these bases is through sabotage , or the worlds biggest ever yet to be seen bomb , they do care if they kill civilians because the more they kill the harder it is for America to rebuild . Also think about new York , or other big cities do you think America could ever rebuild those After an attack ?[/quote] No. Not a single country will ever totally recover. Our civilization will be pushed back a thousand years. However, every country will recover to some degree. For Finland it would be significantly easier than America, because we most likely won't get directly nuked. America, however, will rebuild. It will take time, but it will happen. It might take ten, twenty, a hundred, or even a thousand years for America to rebuild almost completely.