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Conservative opinion-setter David French has some advice for the residents of Hawaii, and any other city within striking distance of North Korea’s long-range missiles.
So buck-up America, and just learn to live with the “New Normal”, in the Age of Trump, the Insult-Tweeter …
by David French, nationalreview.com — January 15, 2018
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Prepare to live. As tempting as it may be, don’t spend the precious minutes between missile alert and missile impact texting family, sending tearful goodbyes on Snapchat, or attempting to reconcile old grudges. Don’t do it.
First, you have to understand that
the odds are overwhelming that you’ll survive an initial blast. Nuclear weapons are devastating, but it’s a Hollywood myth that any individual strike will vaporize an entire American city,
much less the suburbs and countryside. You can go to sites like
nuclearsecrecy.com to see the blast radius of direct nuclear strikes at various yields.
The bottom line, even if a nuclear weapon as big as the largest North Korea has ever tested were to impact squarely on Manhattan, the vast majority of New Yorkers would survive the initial blast. A strike would devastate central Honolulu but leave many suburbs intact. If the missile misses a city center even by a small amount, the number of initial casualties plunges dramatically.
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As Bill Maher put it, “this is the moment that the Idea of first-strike Nuclear War, went from Unthinkable, to Thinkable.” To Normal. To just another messy fact of modern life.
You just need a plan to survive. Or to live in a far-enough placed suburb.
And then you’re golden!