Do you think you could survive a nuclear war?

I'm going to show you that it's entirely possible.

Come on, let's go take a look.

Hello everyone, Dr. Chris Martinson here and a very somber topic for you today,

because obviously the things that are

right now in the context of when I'm recording this in March of 2022, there's a war in Ukraine right now

and tensions between Russia and the West are quite high. So this is a tension that's been going on for a long time in part two of this report.

I'll be talking about, well, I've been tracking this tension all the way back as far as 2011. So it's been a while, but now it seems actually quite serious. So, hey, let's just go through, I think, something that's a really somber but important topic. And that's, you know, a lot of people think, you know, nuclear war,

if it gets to that, I won't survive. Hey, listen, if you're right under the blast, you won't. But for everybody else, it's actually a lot more survivable than you think. And so I want to talk to you today about how that would, how you'd go about that, but I want to give you the, you know, me, I'm going to give you the essential context for this, the science behind it. So what is the science and what do you need to know? And I think having that understanding, it helps you, I think, helps me understand how you

would formulate a strategy. So let's go there. This is episode 51, how to survive a nuclear war. As always,

my personal motto is, I'd rather be a year early than a day late, especially when it comes

to preparations like these. By the way, these are the sorts of preparations that you make,

and then you forget about them, and hopefully you never have to use them. But at least you've

been there, done that, and had thought processes, processes and more importantly gotten the items that you need.

This is what a 10 megaton blast in New York City would look like and it's got a breeze from the southwest.

And so it's blowing a big plume of radiation off to the northeast. And it looks bad and it is bad. Trust me, we don't want to be anywhere

near that. I would be under this band over here of yellow-orangey badness. And so what does that

actually mean? So there's some terms on there, a thousand rads per hour. You probably don't know what

that means. I didn't until I started researching this and looking into it. So let's, let's decode this a little bit. All right, first thing we need to know is not all radiation is the same. There's no one thing called radiation. It comes. There's a spectrum of radiation types. You're surrounded by radiation. The fact that you're listening to this right now, you're bathed in a certain

amount of electromagnetic radiation, you're bathed in cell phone signals, and you've got

electromagnetic pulses all around you as well. Cosmic rays sneak through every so often.

You probably live near, if you've ever had, if you ever stood near a chip of bananas,

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