You Will Survive Doomsday

A guide to the post-nuclear apocalypse, and how one should expect to survive.

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# MYTH #01: Almost everyone will suddenly be killed on doomsday.
# MYTH #02: Most people would be quickly killed by the bomb blasts, thermal radiation, or radioactivity.
# MYTH #03: You can build an adequate shelter in your basement.
# MYTH #04: You must filter the air coming into a shelter to remove the fallout.
# MYTH #05: Water would become radioactive.
# MYTH #06: There would be no dangerous radioactivity after a couple of weeks.
# MYTH #07: Radiation sickness is not contagious so there is no danger in assisting those affected.
# MYTH #08: Food exposed to radiation becomes radioactive and is therefore not edible.
# MYTH #09: If you have a special radiation suit (like you see in the movies and on TV) you will be protected from the radiation.
# MYTH #10: New crops of food grown in future years will not be radioactive.
# MYTH #11: There is no such thing as a fallout pill.
# MYTH #12: There is a fallout pill that will protect you from all radioactivity.
# MYTH #13: There would be dangerous radioactivity for thousands of years.
# MYTH #14: There would be no dangerous radioactivity after a couple of years.
# MYTH #15: You are prepared if you have a two weeks emergency supply of food stored.
# MYTH #16: You should be prepared to be self-sufficient and be able to survive on your own.
# MYTH #17: Any survivors would have to live the rest of their lives underground.
# MYTH #18: Life after doomsday won't be worth living.
# MYTH #19: You need not make any preparation because you are either going to die in the holocaust or be saved (religious connotation).
# MYTH #20: The bombs today are so large and there are so many they will destroy the world.
# MYTH #21: You will receive adequate warning from your government.
# MYTH #22: You will receive no warning, and there is no hope if you do.
# MYTH #23: One of the primary targets will be nuclear power plants.

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MYTH #15: You are prepared if you have a two weeks emergency supply of food stored.

More important to the present theme are questions as to what preparations survivors should be making ahead of time. Since it will take a while to get crops growing again because of social disorganization, ozone depletion in the atmosphere, climatic changes, crop adaptation, early crop failures, soil deprivation, and similar factors, survivors will need a couple of year's supply of food. Wheat and honey are the only two basic foods, of which I am aware, that have an indefinite shelf life. Thousand year old kernels found in the pyramids have still sprouted. Fortunately, these two foods, wheat and honey, meet most adult nutrient requirements. Powdered milk will be necessary if one wishes to reduce the infant mortalities. The infants will not survive otherwise, unless their mothers have adequate natural milk, which is unlikely. Salt is important as a preservative, among other purposes.

In addition to storing the four basic survival foods (wheat, honey, powdered milk and salt), it is highly advisable that one also store a couple of year's supply of a variety of (non-hybrid) seeds. Some seeds will not store very well and need to be continually replaced.

It is equally important to develop certain skills. Gardening skills. I particularly recommend the area of hydroponics because this would be one way to grow foods free of contamination. Preserving skills. Here I recommend learning to dry foods using hot air. Freeze-drying requires too much elaborate and expensive equipment and freezing itself is not reliable when electricity is not reliable. Preparation skills. Bread making, use of lentils, and making of many foods, or their substitutes, that today are commonly gotten in prepared form.

On all of these subjects one could write a book. Indeed many books have been written on them. Even if one does not have time to immediately develop all these skills they might do well to get themselves a survival library and then as a next step acquire the essentials in materials listed in checklists in most well organized manuals.

It's an incredibly long read, though a very interesting one. Those interested in writing Post-Apoc literature or media should definitely consider it in order to create a more convincing fiction.

You've survived Doomsday.

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I don't think the man is suggesting that one feed children honey, seeing as how he explicitly mentioned that grains and honey meet all of the adult nutrition requirements, and how one should keep powdered milk on hand to lower the spectre of infant mortality rates.

Is a nuclear war likely? Of course not. Then again, the possibility for their occurrence isn't entirely out of the question. One requires only the will to push the button, and then the bombs start flying. (Chinese proximity to Russia, for instance, will practically guarantee that the Ruskies will be dropping their bombs on the Amerikanskis)

This is good information to know, however, even in the case of a terrorist nuclear strike. I had the suspicion that the radiational effect of fallout depended on how dense a concentration there was of it, and this thing confirmed that for me.

Also, I don't care if you've read some of this before. You're reading it again. :doggy:

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Seriously, what. Economy? There have been many economically devastating wars in the past.

Indeed. It's like everytime somebody brings up WW1, you get the dumbest stares.

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