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Video trivializes nuclear war, glows with survivability, everything
managed undre control, not really more trouble than conventionals...
so they can use them. Prepare now.


Nuclear Watchdog Groups Mock NYC's Atomic Bomb Preparedness Video As
'Delusional'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/13/you-dont-got-peace-group-blasts-nycs-new-nuclear-survival-psa
https://twitter.com/freedomrideblog/status/1546647400030392323
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg
https://twitter.com/nuclearban/status/1546875107368370179
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/25/victory-humanity-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-take-effect-honduras-becomes-50th
https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11282/chapter/8
https://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk Programming The Nuclear Strike

Peace advocates on Tuesday derided a New York City public service
announcement meant to prepare residents for a nuclear attack as a
21st-century version of the absurd Duck and Cover civil defense film
of the early Cold War era.

"So, there's been a nuclear attack," the narrator of the NYC Emergency
Management video begins. "Don't ask me how or why, just know the big
one has hit."... "So what do we do?" she continues before instructing
viewers to "get inside, fast," "stay inside... and get clean
immediately," and "stay tuned; follow media for more information."

    The City of New York came up with a pretty useless PSA on how to
protect ourselves from nuclear attack. Follow media? Um, there won't
be electricity or media. Then again, we'll all be vaporized so... It
pains me to say that there were no nuclear PSAs when Trump was
president. pic.twitter.com/PhMzBCdSrY
    — Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) July 12, 2022

"All right? You've got this," the woman assures viewers.

While New York City Mayor Eric Adams called the PSA a "great idea,"
some critics accused officials of unwarranted fearmongering amid
increased nuclear tensions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
and NATO's response.

Others lambasted the PSA as latest in a line of nuclear war
informationals like the U.S. Civil Defense Administration's Duck and
Cover and the British government's Protect and Survive films that
offer little more than delusive contentment for millions of people who
likely would not survive a full-scale thermonuclear attack.

"The reality is, if this comes to pass, you don't 'got this,'" tweeted
the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was
awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work leading to a landmark
treaty outlawing nukes.

Calling the PSA "outrageously misguided," ICAN said it's difficult to
get inside fast during a nuclear explosion "when, in a matter of
seconds, houses up to 175 kilometers away from the epicenter crumble
like they are made of cards."

    5/ The reality is, if this comes to pass, you don’t “got this.” In
the hours and days to follow there will be no way to respond. As
stated in our research paper below no state has the healthcare
infrastructure to deal with the aftermath of a nuclear
attackhttps://t.co/HdSDDhtlYK
    — ICAN (@nuclearban) July 12, 2022

"The PSA goes on to advise to 'stay inside, remove clothing, and
shower,'" ICAN added. "As if taking a shower will be feasible during a
nuclear attack, or effective to protect you against radioactive ash.
And 'stay tuned'—as if communications infrastructure will be
functional."

The United States and Russia have over 11,000 nuclear warheads in
their combined arsenals. China, France, and Britain have hundreds of
warheads each, while India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea each
have between 50-165 nukes.

According to NukeMap, a single Russian 800 kiloton warhead airburst
over midtown Manhattan would destroy or severely damage much of New
York City and cause an estimated 4.5 million casualties.

A higher-yield weapon, like the five-megaton warheads atop China's
Dong Feng-5 intercontinental ballistic missiles, would destroy most of
the city while killing or wounding around eight million people. In an
actual full-scale nuclear war, multiple warheads would likely be
launched against a target as important as New York.

Millions of people not instantly incinerated or obliterated by the
fireball—which is hotter than the sun's core—and immense blast wave of
a nuclear explosion would suffer severe burns, blinding, lacerations,
blunt-force injuries, and, for many, the slow death of radiation
poisoning.

"The living," Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reputedly said, "will
envy the dead."