So older people remember them, while younger boomers never had them. It is insufficiently appreciated that nuclear weapons arrived in two generations 7 years apart, the second generation a thousand times more powerful than the first, and with no theoretical limit on that power.
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A fun thought experiment is to imagine if natural uranium had a different isotope ratio, so that atomic weapons did not require enrichment, and whichever Hapsburg prince controlled the Bohemian mines that were its only known source for centuries had been able to nuke his rivals.
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Or imagine if the Cuban missile crisis had ended in global nuclear war. The small bands of mutant survivors still alive in 2020 would gather by the fire sometimes and try to imagine the alternate future that might have been, never fathoming to what extent they had dodged a bullet
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Also, nuclear winter fixes global warming, and a lot of people are going to reflect on that in the coming decades. Just sayin'.
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Plus you know the fallout
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It is also useful for active shooter protection.
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We kept having them, just rebranded as earthquake drills.
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My elementary school had two kinds of drills with five different names: nuke=earthquake=tornado and fire=flood
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duck-and-cover under the desk is still actually really good advice regardless of weapon. In case of actual nuke, would usually get you out of line-of-sight of a flash, which is underrated as threat; and with any weapon, falling debris or partial building collapse is a big risk
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obviously useless in the primary blast radius, but with any weapon, the secondary area is much, much larger than the primary and it's not like it's going to *hurt* anyway in the former case, there's just nothing that helps, so might as well
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