re: #95 Decatur Deb

Dragged a realistic 800kt over Rucker, the only nearby target. Nukes are over-rated.

There are certainly some wild ideas out there about their effects, such as a crater 100 miles wide or a dozen of them breaking up the planet (both of which I have heard). I think a lot of this results from counter-survival propaganda, as well as a general cultural bias against the hardships, discipline, and even brutality that would be necessary. Some of this propaganda is well-intended, based on the assumption that any belief in the survivability of nuclear war would somehow make it more acceptable. I really don’t know how many people would find a desperate subsistence level survival preferable to immediate death, though, and I have always rejected that argument. “You mean there’s a slight chance we can live on like rats in the subway instead of being flash fried? Well, hot damn! Let’s nuke the bastards!”
The real thing is entirely bad enough.