What’s everyone reading?

[harr1984]

Thanks, reviews look good.

I'm sure it's a great read, but personally I would rather not read it and live my life relatively blissfully unaware of the stark reality of it all.

I somehow found myself going down a rabbit hole of aeroplane crashes not long ago, and now can't help but have constant bad thoughts every time I'm flying. For now I want to avoid further negative thought provoking subjects Not suggesting you or anyone else doesn't read it btw ....

 

[Baleforce]

I’m sure we will survive. The idea of nuclear winter comes from science fiction.

It’s just another way of instilling fear. Stay indoors for a few days, let the dust settle and get back to work on the Monday.

Ftfy

 

[markysimmo]

Great read this

 

[Rorschach]

Arthur Snell's book on British foreign policy (How Britian Broke the World) is 3 squid on Kindle atm, if you are looking for a bargain.

 

[Grays_1890]

Im reading Gangs of New York and a History of Treason at the moment...........decent reads

 

[Mikey10]

I’m sure we will survive. The idea of nuclear winter comes from science fiction.

It’s just another way of instilling fear. Stay indoors for a few days, let the dust settle and get back to work on the Monday.

Try telling that to the inhabitants of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl.

 

[johnola]

Try telling that to the inhabitants of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl.

Well obviously ground zero is not an ideal place to be, same goes for a conventional weapons barrage.

Chernobyl was not a nuclear bomb and has a totally different set of pollutants. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a case in point. Rebuilt almost straight away and now thriving.

I just don’t see much difference between London being destroyed whether by a nuclear bomb in one fell swoop or high explosives over a longer period of time, and quite frankly neither scenario keeps me up at night.

what I really distrust is that nuclear winter theory where ash from burning cities stays in the high lest levels of the atmosphere- total conjecture.

 

[glasgowspur]

Well obviously ground zero is not an ideal place to be, same goes for a conventional weapons barrage.

Chernobyl was not a nuclear bomb and has a totally different set of pollutants. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a case in point. Rebuilt almost straight away and now thriving.

I just don’t see much difference between London being destroyed whether by a nuclear bomb in one fell swoop or high explosives over a longer period of time, and quite frankly neither scenario keeps me up at night.

what I really distrust is that nuclear winter theory where ash from burning cities stays in the high lest levels of the atmosphere- total conjecture.

Hiroshima and nagasaki were two bombs, considerably smaller than modern one, should Ww3 breakout we are talking about 100s if 1000s if bombs.

 

[Baleforce]

The bombs dropped on Japan were fun snaps compared to what is out there now.

 

[johnola]

Hiroshima and nagasaki were two bombs, considerably smaller than modern one, should Ww3 breakout we are talking about 100s if 1000s if bombs.

They might make a hell of a mess but it will not end civilisation. The fires will be out within weeks and the no longer radioactive dust will have long since settled. Cities will be razed but Russia do this to Ukrainian cities anyway.

Just a different way of thinking about this.

 

[glasgowspur]

They might make a hell of a mess but it will not end civilisation. The fires will be out within weeks and the no longer radioactive dust will have long since settled. Cities will be razed but Russia do this to Ukrainian cities anyway.

Just a different way of thinking about this.

Hiroshima was from memory 14 kilo tons, modern bombs are 50 mega tons.
So 14 thousand tons of tnt compared to 50 million tons.

 

[thfcsteff]

I’m sure we will survive. The idea of nuclear winter comes from science fiction.

It’s just another way of instilling fear. Stay indoors for a few days, let the dust settle and get back to work on the Monday.

I hope you're right.
Jacobsen is not pulling from sci-fi here though; she's just restating facts she's collated that evade most of us.