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<p>[QUOTE="doug444, post: 1962961, member: 38849"]First sign of nuclear war, I'm outta here. Life won't be worth living. If you have an extended family of 15 or 20, several households living together in a compound in the boonies of Idaho, etc., with lots of useful skills, tools, and supplies, maybe you have an incentive to survive; I don't.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a pretty realistic film to watch [Wikipedia]:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>The Day After</b></i> is a 1983 American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_film" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_film" rel="nofollow">television film</a> that aired on November 20, 1983, on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" rel="nofollow">ABC</a> television network. It was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts#Top_44_network_prime-time_telecasts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts#Top_44_network_prime-time_telecasts" rel="nofollow">seen by more than</a> 100 million people during its initial broadcast.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> It is currently the highest-rated television film in history.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The film postulates a fictional war between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" rel="nofollow">NATO</a> forces and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" rel="nofollow">Warsaw Pact</a> that rapidly escalates into a full-scale <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare" rel="nofollow">nuclear exchange</a> between the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow">United States</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" rel="nofollow">Soviet Union</a>. However, the action itself focuses on the residents of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" rel="nofollow">Lawrence, Kansas</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri" rel="nofollow">Kansas City, Missouri</a>, as well as several family farms situated next to nuclear <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_silo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_silo" rel="nofollow">missile silos</a>. (more)</p><p><br /></p><p>============</p><p>In an emergency, away from urban areas, there will always be plenty of people with mixed-up priorities, who will trade food, water, and ammo for gold or silver, assuming the government hasn't confiscated your stash a month before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug444, post: 1962961, member: 38849"]First sign of nuclear war, I'm outta here. Life won't be worth living. If you have an extended family of 15 or 20, several households living together in a compound in the boonies of Idaho, etc., with lots of useful skills, tools, and supplies, maybe you have an incentive to survive; I don't. Here's a pretty realistic film to watch [Wikipedia]: [I][B]The Day After[/B][/I] is a 1983 American [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_film']television film[/URL] that aired on November 20, 1983, on the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company']ABC[/URL] television network. It was [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts#Top_44_network_prime-time_telecasts']seen by more than[/URL] 100 million people during its initial broadcast.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] It is currently the highest-rated television film in history.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] The film postulates a fictional war between [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO']NATO[/URL] forces and the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact']Warsaw Pact[/URL] that rapidly escalates into a full-scale [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare']nuclear exchange[/URL] between the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States']United States[/URL] and the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union']Soviet Union[/URL]. However, the action itself focuses on the residents of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas']Lawrence, Kansas[/URL], and [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri']Kansas City, Missouri[/URL], as well as several family farms situated next to nuclear [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_silo']missile silos[/URL]. (more) ============ In an emergency, away from urban areas, there will always be plenty of people with mixed-up priorities, who will trade food, water, and ammo for gold or silver, assuming the government hasn't confiscated your stash a month before.[/QUOTE]
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