<story><title>Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)</title><url>https://www.oism.org/nwss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>I know we&amp;#x27;re not supposed to question why a link was posted here, but... why? ;)&lt;p&gt;I mean I thought about a lot of bad scenarios and how to prepare for them, but a nuclear war is probably not survivable, you&amp;#x27;re just going to prolong the pain a few more days &amp;#x2F; months.&lt;p&gt;To have any chance you probably would have to stay at least 5 years in an underground bunker. The guys on the TV shows Alone (I&amp;#x27;m watching the first season now) are getting crazy just after a couple weeks of isolation.&lt;p&gt;The Germans have an excellent saying for these kind of situations: better an horrible end than an horror without end (sorry if my translation isn&amp;#x27;t accurate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>This is addressed right up front in the book, interestingly enough.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;While working with hundreds of Americans building expedient shelters and life-support equipment, I have found that many people at first see no sense in talking about details of survival skills.  Those who hold exaggerated beliefs about the dangers from nuclear weapons must first be convinced that nuclear war would not inevitably be the end of them and everything worthwhile.  Only after they have begun to question the truth of these myths do they become interested, under normal peacetime conditions, in acquiring nuclear war survival skills.  Therefore, before giving detailed instructions for making and using survival equipment, we will examine the most harmful of the myths about nuclear war dangers, along with some of the grim facts.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)</title><url>https://www.oism.org/nwss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>I know we&amp;#x27;re not supposed to question why a link was posted here, but... why? ;)&lt;p&gt;I mean I thought about a lot of bad scenarios and how to prepare for them, but a nuclear war is probably not survivable, you&amp;#x27;re just going to prolong the pain a few more days &amp;#x2F; months.&lt;p&gt;To have any chance you probably would have to stay at least 5 years in an underground bunker. The guys on the TV shows Alone (I&amp;#x27;m watching the first season now) are getting crazy just after a couple weeks of isolation.&lt;p&gt;The Germans have an excellent saying for these kind of situations: better an horrible end than an horror without end (sorry if my translation isn&amp;#x27;t accurate).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goda90</author><text>Why try to survive? That&amp;#x27;s something people have to ask themselves individually really.&lt;p&gt;I took a wilderness survival course in college. We were usually out in a park practicing skills, but one day we just stayed in the classroom and our teacher talked about what drives people to survive extreme situations, even when they have little experience or training to do so. He brought up cases of parents going the extra mile to save the child they were lost with. He mentioned Hugh Glass and his drive for revenge after being left for dead from a bear mauling. Viktor Frankl observed a concentration camp prisoner who was always optimistic until the day he saw his family brought into the camp, and then he died soon after. For some people it could be a biological urge to keep living. Or maybe their religious beliefs drive them.</text></comment>