#nuclear weaponry

“Doesn’t it kinda get you hard?” she asks. It’s an inappropriate question; she shouldn’t be asking it. She knows I’m insecure that I can’t afford surgery. Mercy is carelessly tracing her robotic hand suggestively up and down the shell of the unexploded ordinance we’re here to assess.

That's literally one of, If not the most disturbing thing in Guilty gear in like ever!!! :O

How will he remedy this?😶😶😶

Guilty Gear is no stranger to Nuclear Weapons...

In fact Gears are classified as biological weapons on a Nuclear scale!  They are Internationally Sanctioned ("sanctioned" means that countries are no longer allowed to produce them and the countries that do so will be penalized, either by a fine, or restrictions in trade/exports/political influence).

But, Nuclear weapons by themselves are also Internationally Sanctioned: this includes the Saint Oratorio OutRage equipment that Justice used to fire the Gamma Ray (which is what sparked the Holy War in the first place).

Justice wasn't the only Gear in history to have enough energy output to destroy a whole continent, however... the same could also be said of most Valentines, Elphelt included.  All the more reason why they were kept under close watch by the Kings of Illyria.

Even Ariels' terrorist actions (turning the Japanese people in to Information Flare bombs and Anti-matter Gears) are something bordering Nuclear Terrorism.

Regarding the "bombings" in Strive... we still don't have enough information to say what is taking place...

Right now though, it's clear that Axl Low doesn't have the power to stop what's happened, even if he can see it up close (meaning Axl can't change the timeline or fix things on his end...)

Does that mean things are going to plan for I-No?  For Asuka?  For Ariels?

Oh yeah I’m aware and I’ve covered that in other posts! The founder of what would eventually become the IQ test had genuinely good intentions, and was careful to emphasize the relative and changeable nature of any measure of “intelligence.” Unfortunately, he was only in charge of it for a couple of years before a raging eugenicist, Henry Goddard, took the reins and overhauled the entire approach to suit his eugenic values, and the test Goddard created is more or less the one we still work from today, not Binet’s original vision.

As such, I tend to emphasize the inherently eugenic nature of IQ tests and their history, because whatever Binet’s intentions were, they are not what remains today when we look at the number that’s assigned to quantify intelligence.

...It’s a bit like arguing that nuclear weapons aren’t all that bad because Ernest Walton, who first split the atom, was genuinely dedicated to understanding the world by investigating its smallest particles. That’s true, and knowledge for its own sake isn’t a bad thing, but it doesn’t change the fact that James Chadwick used that discovery to write the final MAUD report and head up the Manhattan Project.

...Supercomputers are thought by both the US and China to be integral for national security and scientific research. Such systems are used for a variety of tasks, including civilian work like climate forecasting and product design. However, they're also useful for more high-stakes research, including cybersecurity and nuclear weaponry.

...China's investment in high-performance chips and supercomputers in recent years has been significant and effective. In 2001, there were no Chinese supercomputers in the world's top 500 ranking. Now, there are 167 — more than the US, which has 165 entries. The development of TaihuLight was funded under the so-called "863 program," a government project aimed at ending reliance on foreign technology.

So. Today a military mistake that should never have happened sent out an alert to the state of Hawaii, telling people that a ballistic missile was on its way.

I can’t do much.

But I can do this.

This isn’t official, I encourage you to do your own research, but this is a special interest of mine, and here’s what I’ve found.

*Note: I encourage you to purchase or make a faraday cage for your electronic devices, or they will not work after the blast

1) Get underground, if you can

Get to know your area. Find out which buildings have basements, especially if you’re in a southern area where basements aren’t common. You’re looking for underground concrete structures without windows.

The nuclear weapon was not designed to destroy military bases, it was not designed to destroy reinforced structures like concrete and steel buildings. The nuclear bomb was designed, essentially, for civilians.

If you live near a military base or a nuclear power plant, your odds of being attacked increase dramatically.

Places to look for undeground shelter include: museums, government buildings, office buildings and apartment high rises. Parking garages are dubious at best, but if they’re marked as an official fallout shelters or have closing doors, your chances of survival increase.

If you can’t get underground, get on the first floor of the building, in a central room, away from doors and windows. You got books? Furniture? barricade as much of that around (and above if you’ve got an attic or a second floor) your central room as you can. Stock the area with food and water before the blast. 

You’re also going to want to have some sort of bathroom plan. Running water won’t be a thing for at least a few weeks after the blast, and clean running water would be even harder to come by. (There’s also the chance the water in your tap could become contaminated by the fallout).

2) If there’s enough time and the roads are clear, get out.

Some places, like Hawaii, won’t have enough time to evacuate or can’t physically evacuate. I wouldn’t recommend evacuating by boat even if you’ve got one ready to go and are on the easternmost side of the big island, it’s still over 2,000 miles until you hit land. 

But if you get the alert and you’re already on the edge of town? Get out. Don’t think just drive, perpendicular to the wind, don’t look back.

Staying put and sheltering in place is probably your safest bet, statistically speaking. Especially if you’re in Hawaii, or even a major city on the mainland. You’re just not going to be able to get out in time

So what do you do when you shelter in place?

3) Stay inside, prepare food and water ahead of time.

Hopefully, you already have an emergency kit prepared. If you have the space for your own shelter or space in your pantry, keep two extra weeks of non-perishables and at least 28 gallons of water per person (at 1-2 gallons/3-7 litres a day, this would be the minimum for a person to survive)(this number drops in cooler conditions, but, well, cooler conditions are not likely to happen after the blast). This water should be stored in BPA free containers, so there’s no chemical breakdown of the plastic during those (hopefully) very long stretches of time you’re not using them.

As mentioned above, the water in your sink and toilet is probably going to become contaminated at some point (via waste buildup or radiation) so you won’t have that as an option if your stored water starts growing some new friends while you’re sheltering in place. Life Straw and similar products are your best bet (life straw is the cheapest but) for clean water if you’re unsure how safe your stored water is. There are also water purification tablets you can buy that’ll allow your water to keep longer.

If you live in a hurricane or earthquake prone area, you should definitely have these things stored already, we’re just adding more.

Your food should be non-perishables (canned goods, jerkey, dried fruit, etc)(if you get rice, get the kind that just needs to be microwaved and doesn’t require water)(same with soups) that you and your family normally eats. After a nuclear blast is not the time to discover that little Timmy has a tuna allergy.

If you have a walk-in pantry, perfect. If you don’t but have a basement, go ahead and keep all your non-perishables down there, save some space and use the tiny pantry for dishes or something.

If you’re like me, and you live in a small apartment building with no basment and don’t even have a pantry?

Grocery store and a megaphone. Befriend your local cashier, the bagger, the stocker, the manager, the people behind the deli counter, the bakers. When you get the warning, head over to the store with your megaphone and get as many people as you can to use whatever they can to barricade yourselves in with all the perishables. All the canned goods in the average grocery store could feed a single human for about 70 years.

Get pottassium-iodide if your pharmacy has it.

Get a cooktop, like the kind used for camping, and some pots and pans.

4) Staying informed

Two weeks is a long time to go without electricity, especially in a crisis. If you have an emergency kit already, it should have a radio (either hand crank or battery operated, with extra batteries) a flashlight (they make flashlights that are hand crank and charge your cell phone) and those cell phone recharger packs in it.

Emergency responders will not be physically able to enter the area for about two weeks, so you need to keep informed. Keep an eye on the weather reports, which way the wind is headed, and keep an eye out for an all clear signal, as it could come sooner than two weeks if the missile is small enough.

5) Staying healthy

This is probably going to be the most costly portion of your emergency kit (which, I remind you, if you’re in an area where hurricanes and or earthquakes are common, you should have one) but it’s necessary. Keep your regular stocks of ibuprofen, allergy medicine, cold medicine, etc, in your emergency kit. Talk to your doctor (especially if you’re in an area where natural disasters are frequent enough, you’re much likelier to be caught in a hurricane or an earthquake than a nuclear disaster) about 90 day supplies of long term perscription medications instead of 30 day supplies.

*side note, re: natural disasters: get a lockbox with some cash and put it in your kit. If the power’s down and no one can swipe a card, you’re gonna need it. You won’t, however, need it for a nuclear blast because no one will be going outside

5) If you don’t have shelter

Some shelter is better than no shelter, but if you can get from bad shelter to good shelter in under five minutes, go for it. Thing is, you’re not gonna know if that shelter is still there. This is where you’re gonna want that crank radio and a vehicle.

By the time the blast actually hits, the roads will be clear enough if you stay off the major highways. 

Wait about 30 minutes in your bad-but-still-shelter shelter. This will give you enough time to wait out the initial blast and the shockwave, most of the firestorm, any atomic rain (reported after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings), it’ll give meteorologists enough time to tell you where the fallout cloud is headed (this is where the crank radio comes in handy) and it’ll give you enough time to put on as many clothes as you can. I’m talking ski masks, I’m talking gogles, I’m talking thick jackets.

After 30 minutes are up, get in your car, plug up your vents, and drive wherever the fallout cloud isn’t. Once you’re in adequate shelter, decontaminate. Leave all your clothes outside, better to be embarassed than dead, and if you have the opportunity to shower, do so. Wash your hair without using conditioner and discard all items used a safe distance away from your shelter.

*Note: this step is dependent on you being a significant distance away from the blast. See belowe for what to do if you’re too close to the fireball

6) Wait, what about the EMP, won’t that render the car useless?

Depends on the car, even if you don’t have a working car after the blast you should still put as much distance between you and the blast as possible, whether that’s sheltering in place or on the move.

Nothing conclusive has been found regarding the effects an nuclear electromagnetic pulse would have on an automobile.

Faraday cages for your phones, chargers, radios, and other electronics are definitely a good idea.

7) The blast is happening, what now?

Ok so let’s assume this was a warhead from North Korea.

Pray to whatever you do or don’t believe in that you’re not within about 1-2 miles of the blast radius, especially without shelter.

You actually are going to want to duck and cover before the blast wave hits, get under something iff possible.

Keep your mouth open, it’ll equalize the pressure when the bomb goes off and your eardrums don’t burst.

Basically, you’re either vaporized, badly burned, or crushed under collapsed buildings and other debris.

If you happen to be outside that 1-2 mile radius, you’re in luck. You probably survived the initial blast. Wait in your shelter until the all clear is given.

If you’re in that 1-2 mi radius and you did survive? You’ve got less than half hour to get the fuck out of there. Good news is most of your obstacles are vaporized, and you just need to get about a mile away from where you’re presently standing, in the opposite direction relative to you where the blast was, perpendicular to the wind. Basically, towards the part of town that’s still standing.

Sidenote, don’t look at the blast. 

If you can’t do that, get the fuck underground and into a shelter.

The bad news is, pretty much everything’s going to be on fire. If fire is approaching your shelter it’s time to move. Put on heavy clothing and cover up as much as you can, and get to safety.

If it rains, don’t touch, drink, or interact with it. It’s radioactive. Get something sturdy over your head and keep dry at all costs.

Now, at this point, I feel I should let y’all know that a nuclear confrontation, while not off the table, isn’t likely. Or at least, wouldn’t last long.

It’s not known exactly how many weapons North Korea has, but the concept of MAD (or, mutually assured destruction) still stands. In fact, I’d say it’s probably skewed in America’s favor, especially if North Korea strikes first.

If there’s a nuclear attack in our lifetime, it’ll likely come from a stateless terrorist group. My guess? Based on the types of channels youtube recommends me every time I search things like “Chernobyl Documentary” or “Manhattan Project” or “Nuclear Survival ted talk,” neo-nazis and other white supremacists are the most likely to commit such a crime. (Luckily, they’re historically bad at nuclear physics).

These attacks are likely to be a ground burst. Which means you have one other option for shelter. A high rise, more than ten floors above ground level and more than ten floors below the top floor. It also likely means a lower yield, so that’s less time spent in the shelter. Still 48-72 hours minimum

8) The all clear hasn’t been given, but I can hear first responders outside, and helicopters, should I seek help?

Yes, absolutely! Depending on the size of the bomb, first responders might be on the ground as soon as 24 hours after the explosion.

Luckily for those caught in the firestorm, the fire department is designated by the US as the lead agency on the ground, they’re going to at the very least bring resources as close to the victims as possible.

They will be blocking off areas and denying entry, so be aware of that if you’re crazy enough to try to go get your loved ones.

This, like every hospitalization situation, is where you should thank your lucky  stars if you’re waiting for treatment.

These guys are gonna get you out of there.

9) What about the sick, the disabled, the poor, the elderly, the homeless?

If you’ve got the extra cash, stock more food and water. Invest in a geiger counter or a dosimiter (even if there’s no nuke, still probably a good idea to know how radioactive your surroundings are. 1 in 3 Americans live within 50 miles of nuclear waste after all). Stock up on home remedies for things like arthritis, apple cider vinegar works well for aching joints, with a heavy preference for actual medicine. Be prepared to invite strangers into your home if necessary. Get involved with your local homeless shelter or elder care facility, make friends, see who’s in your area that may need help in an emergency. And this goes for any emergency! Whether your area is known for earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or fire, you should be helping the vulnerable people in your community.

reallt seems like quite a bad idea but maybe communists could have made it work

no real reason to ever use nuclear weaponry though tactical or otherwise

both the soviets and the us made artillery pieces that were capable of firing nuclear shells, and it was equally stupid for both of them. i maintain that if you want to use a nuclear weapon, it should probably be in a ballistic missile of some sort. looking at it form a purely economic perspective, it's not the sort of thing you want any chance of missing with

I don't like recoilless guns and I do like howitzers, so take that as you will for the two weapons mentioned. Broadly speaking I think nuclear artillery was just something of a post hoc justification for the proliferation of more nuclear weaponry in general. Solution in search of a problem if you will.