A nuclear attack is a little more than a “radiation emergency.” Just saying... Not sure Go Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned is the best advice for 20kT (or 200kT) incoming.https://twitter.com/NNSANews/status/1040285990538158082 …
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Replying to @NarangVipin
It actually does work out a lot better than any alternatives one might consider, at least according to all of the models that have been run.
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Replying to @wellerstein @NarangVipin
The most important lesson of this video is that the only effective defense against a nuclear attack is prevention. Once the bomb goes off the lives saved by evacuation vs shelter in place will be a rounding error for the # of casualties.
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Replying to @gregkoblentz @NarangVipin
It's more than a rounding error according to their models (hundreds of thousands of preventable casualties, maybe more), but sure, prevention is the only true defense. Agreed.
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BUT, that being said, 1. we all know prevention unlikely to be perfect; and 2. there are reasons to believe that getting people to think through this stuff, to talk seriously about personalized consequences, etc., is more engaging than just saying "it's awful and unthinkable."
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If #2 is true — if talking about this kind of thing seriously actually does produce a change in the salience of the risk — then it may be a precondition to getting mass action or support for #1. That's part of the thesis of the Reinventing Civil Defense project.
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So rather than being counterproductive to the task of reducing the possibility, serious discussion of the aftermath of an attack (including civil defense) may be important to supporting it. And there is lots of evidence that just emphasizing the horror just shuts people down.
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