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Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by mothsonasloth on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:18AM (#18389245)
I wonder if silicon valley has any bunkers?

Surviving a nuclear attack is doable, provided you are:

Outside the flash zone Outside the shockwave / concussion area Sheltered from fallout radiation Have access to a constant source of uncontaminated water Can survive the following saturation nuclear attacks (from SS18s etc) Able to survive the civil unrest Disease Dwindling food source

Have I missed anything?

Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by VLM on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:09AM (#18390618)
Minor quibble, the most likely "nuclear attack" is something like 9/11 by an enormously high factor. Very difficult to survive if you worked early shift in the towers in NYC, pretty easy to survive if you live in Silicon Valley, and most of the long term social problems were pretty indirect (dead and PTSD military personnel, political destruction of unrelated countries in the middle east, economic damage from the wars, security theater in airports, etc).
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:57AM (#18389659)
As the OP points out, there might be one or two issues with morale too.
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by sdrothrock on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:24AM (#18389770)
> Sheltered from fallout radiation

It might be included in this, but you'd also want to have an air supply isolated from fallout.

Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by brohee on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:27AM (#18390737)
Filtering air intake thru a HEPA filter is plenty good enough, fallout is dust.
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by Gibbon1 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:23AM (#18389488)
> silicon valley has any bunkers?

Maybe.

During the cold war most people in the valley assumed they would die immediately if there was a nuclear war.

Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by VLM on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:12AM (#18390640)
Those factories supplying America's war machines are now all in China, I wonder if SV is off the target list now.

Certainly hitting Oshkosh Wisconsin or Lima Ohio would damage the countries military capabilities vastly worse than hitting SV today.

Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by Tsubasachan on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:41AM (#18389833)
Bunkers are the first things to be hit I would imagine.
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:42AM (#18390447)
Military bunkers, perhaps. Your bunker in your back yard? Not so much.
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by thomaslutz on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:48AM (#18389372)
Formatting.
Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by qubax on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:14AM (#18390652)
I agree. Surviving a nuclear attack isn't the problem. That's just simply a matter of luck of where you are at the time of the attacks.

Surviving the aftermath would require blood, sweat and tears.

When civilization ends and humans are thrust back into subsistence living, we are essentially back to tribalistic animals having to endure rampant starvation and disease. Life is going to be hard for everyone, but especially those without tight groups/tribes and without arms.