Bury One's Head in the Sand or Scare Oneself to Death

If Nuked stay in your Car or go to your Basement quickly

My above Blog which if you wish to read please click on "If Nuked" above describes what I'm trying to address here.

I think the best way that would be useful to address this subject that would help all those in the western world better cope with this subject in a useful way would be to address the psychology of this in a simple way in the U.S. since World War II.

First, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked by Truman as a way to save American lives as he thought enough had already died. From an American point of view this might have been necessary but at this point I think the whole world would say these were very very unfortunate events for the whole world.

Then the Cold War between the Iron Curtain Countries and the Western World Began and we all thought it was only a matter of time that we were going to die. This caused many people who couldn't deal with this to kill themselves both directly and indirectly worldwide. From the late 1930s until the Berlin Wall fell around 1990 terror was an everyday experience for everyone on earth. Though we all got used to it who survived, it was always uncomfortable sort of like a needle poking each of us through our clothes all the time bothering us until the Berlin Wall fell.

However, then people became so euphoric in the Western world at the Collapse of the Soviet Union that people became unrealistic about the fact that nuclear weapons were still everywhere and ready to go off at any time with the slightest provocation.

So, here we are today and the practical possibility of a nuclear accident either of a small nuclear weapon or dirty bomb or even an improperly maintained electrical generating nuclear power plant anywhere on earth is an everyday and every moment possibility.

So, I would say that in a practical useful way we in the western world (and especially the U.S. point of view) have buried our heads in the sand hoping to God that we all didn't need to build basement and buried  bomb shelters once again.

Unfortunately, we are there again. This time it is triggered by a rogue nation called North Korea, and also by Iran gaining nuclear weapons and also because Pakistan's instability is also scaring everyone about how safe Pakistani nuclear weapons still are. In addition to that there is more worry about someone, like a terrorist stealing a small or large nuclear weapon from any nation and setting it off.

So, if you are level headed and want to make sure your family survives whatever comes, it might be time to build yourself a bomb shelter and stock it on or near your home. Or if you live in an apartment try to find a safe place to hang out. If you own a condo and are allowed to you can build a safe room to protect yourselves from criminals that also will double as a well stocked nuclear bomb shelter.

I agree with the article in the New York Times article listed in my previous blog with a button at the top of this page, "It's time to consider once again preparing for the unthinkable". We've had a 20 year break but now it's time to be realistic once again so at least some of us survive whatever comes if it comes.