In this letter (April 7, 2013), the situation in North Korea is extremely important. Kim Jung Un, the subsidiary leader of this country in the 4th world, threatens with a nuclear strike everyone who sees, in particular the United States. No one is confident in their abilities, and the media continue to lose, but it seems that it is not that Kim is unstable and, apparently, believes that his own brainwashing, i. E. It can “destroy” United States.
Kim cannot destroy the United States, but if he does not have the ability to shoot nuclear weapons at a sufficiently large distance, he will be able to kill many Americans (and people from other countries, such as Japan and South Korea). We know that he successfully tested some medium-range and medium-range missiles, and he fired at least one nuclear warhead, so the threat is real. He also annulled the 1953 cease-fire, which ended the shooting (but not the war) on the Korean Peninsula, therefore, whether his threats are sincere or just a video game in his mind, he should be taken seriously. (There are also rumors that he has hidden submarines with nuclear weapons on board, but I could not verify it.)
In this article, we will not discuss the possibility of Kim, but you can make a heads-up about what you can do if he really pulls the trigger. Most people under the age of fifty probably never read what nuclear war is, so you can’t know what to do. I have lived under threat all my life, so I read a lot over the years. My goal today is to CHANGE YOU.
I and most people I know live on the West Coast of the United States; if Kim can even reach the mainland USA, we will be the most likely target. Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle are the most likely choices for a nuclear strike, but the targeting accuracy of North Korea may not be so great, so a missile launched from this country can land anywhere. No one is safe.
When I was a child, growing up under the “Red Stick” (who, apparently, today is mocking the skeptics, it seems to be joking), we had air sirens that sound if Soviet nuclear bombs were discovered; we also had CONELRAD, the equivalent of Today's emergency broadcasting system, which would interrupt radio and television if it had happened. Today, I doubt that these sirens still exist or will be used in the event of a nuclear strike, but we have EBS ... so you may or may not receive any warning if a nuclear strike is launched. It is very possible that the first warning you receive will be ...
Flash.
A nuclear flash is the brightest thing you will ever (hopefully never) see. It is so bright that everything disappears within three to five seconds, then gradually returns to the universe. I once saw him in 1958, when atomic bombs were regularly checked in Nevada; I was ten years old and got up early, before dawn, because we knew in advance that a test would be held. I lived about 300 miles west of the ordeal, with the Sierra Nevada mountains between them, but the light was so bright that it erased everything for a few seconds. At that time I was in the room.
If you see a flash and you are outside, do not look at it. Depending on the size of the bomb and the distance from it, just by looking at it, you can melt your eyes in your head. Even if you survive, you will be blind to life. (Even if you are a hundred miles away, take no chances. Close your eyes and cover them with your hands if possible.)
Your chances of surviving a nuclear explosion depend on many factors. The first and most important of these is your distance from the blast. If you are within a certain radius (which depends on the type and size of the bomb), you are doomed. Nothing can save you, so don't even worry about it.
But if you are still alive ten seconds after the outbreak, and your skin does not bubble and bubbles, you can still survive. Radiation can help you later, but your most immediate threat after a flash survival ...
BLAST
Again, depending on how far away you are from a bomb, you can have from a few seconds to a few minutes to get under cover. A nuclear explosion emanates from the epicenter. You have probably seen films or documentaries about cyclonic winds. You need to get under cover. If you are outdoors, try to find a ravine, a ditch, a culvert or at least a depression in the ground. Find a place quickly and lay face down, closing your eyes and covering them.
In an urban environment, you may not have many options. Many tall buildings, especially stone buildings, will fold. Those built for the earthquake code may remain standing, but will be greatly distorted and damaged, windows blown, etc. Your options are limited, but at least move away from the WINDOWS window. Cellars, if available, can save your life, but you can also be trapped there if the building collapses and burns. As I said, your options are limited.
If you are on a street in an urban area, you can hide in the alleys or behind the walls of concrete blocks, but again buildings will collapse and you may be crushed. It is best to be a sewer if you can get to the manhole cover.
Assuming you are still alive after the burglary wave has passed, the next threat you encounter will be ...
FIRESTORM
From that little research I was able to do, it looks like there are no thermonuclear weapons in North Korea. The tests they have carried out so far, it seems, with weapons that produce explosions, measured in kilotons (unlike megatons); The Little Boy's bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 was about 20 kilotons, which is far from the hydrogen bombs that came later (and were part of the “Red Panic” of my youth), but nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons, and even a small bomb is a serious question.
Thermonuclear can destroy, for example, Los Angeles, by itself, leaving a little more than a glassy crater, but "simple" atomic weapons can still cause great damage. Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced “firestorms” after the explosion, which means that the fires were so intense that they sucked the air towards them to feed the fire. The firestorm is the wind that blows towards the fire and can reach the strength of a hurricane. In World War II, they were first documented in Hamburg and Dresden after the Allied mass bombing raids turned these cities into gigantic fires; Tokyo and many other Japanese cities had the same effect in the months preceding the atomic bombs.
If you are on the ground and are still alive after a nuclear explosion, you must clear the target area as soon as possible. If you are still near the lights that will consume what is left of the target, you can literally be sucked into the fire by the strong winds created by the firestorm. If you are underground and because of the wind, you can still die from suffocation, because the fire absorbs oxygen around you. Get as far as you can, as quickly as possible, from the target area.
It is not intended for textbooks on nuclear war, but merely for warning. Follow these simple instructions and you can survive, but for more information, I recommend you google for information about How to survive a nuclear attack.
