Radiation, fallout, and perpetual winter – would you survive a nuclear war? What about the President, Australia, and modern civilization? In this episode we do a deep dive on nuclear warfare, how bad it might be, and what rebuilding civilization would entail.
HELPFUL RESOURCES
NUKE MAP: Nuclear impact, fallout, fireball, etc. map
"The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch"
TPO Rerun: “Everything You Know About Nukes Is Wrong, with Ward Wilson”
The Soho Forum: "It Is Imperative To Eliminate Nuclear Weapons"
DHS: Radiation Risks for Responders
MUSIC
“The Great Atomic Power” - The Louvin Brothers
“99 Red Balloons” - Strings and Things
EPISODE SOURCES:
GOVERNMENT WAR PLANS
The Atlantic: The Armageddon Plan
Telegraph: How many nuclear bunkers are there in Britain... and who would get in?
Politico: Time is ticking to replace the Pentagon’s 1970s-era Doomsday planes
iNews: How is the Doomsday Plane ‘nuke proof’?
BBC: What are the Letters of Last Resort?
NY Post: This is Where the Government Would Hide During Nuclear War
NPR: In the Event of an Attack, Here’s How the Government Plans to Save Itself
WaPo: Five Myths About the Continuity of Government
NUCLEAR ATTACKS AND STRATEGY
The Sydney Morning Herald: Soviets Did Not Target Australian Cities
Wired: In Nuclear Silos, Death Wars a Snuggy
ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS AND FALLOUT
Popular Mechanics: This Is What a Nuclear War Between the U.S. and Russia Could Look Like
Vox: This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you
Vice: How to Survive a Nuclear Bomb
Britannica: Residual Radiation and Fallout
NuclearSecrecy.Com: What the Nuke Map Taught me About Fallout
Electro Magnetic Pulse Fact Sheet
NUCLEAR WINTER & STARVATION
Robock: Global Food insecurity after nuclear winter
TedXMileHigh: “I've studied nuclear war for 35 years -- you should be worried”
Cosmos: A nuclear war could starve five billion people – but Australians might survive
Atomic Archive: World-Wide Effects of Nuclear War
How Stuff Works: What Would Nuclear Winter Be Like?
Allfed: Low-Tech Solutions to Mass Starvation
Alliance for Science: Could Humans Survive a Nuclear War Between NATO and Russia?
Lesswrong: Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction
EuroNews: Nuclear bunkers for all: Switzerland is ready as international tensions mount
Al Jazeera: Could the World Survive a Nuclear Winter?
DOOMSDAY VAULTS & LIBRARIES
The Museum of History in Granite
The Time Capsule That's as Big As Human History
Food & Wine: Oreo Built a 'Doomsday' Vault to Protect Its Recipe and Cookies
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