Surviving nuclear war is eminently possible unless you’re within a few feet of Ground Zero. You can certainly survive the initial burst of gamma radiation if you’re a few miles away — you’ll survive all right, but you aren’t going to like it, nor will you live for very long — not only because of radiation, but weather and crops and animal life along the chain. Most species will die out, especially humans, who are very dependent on crops and other earth-exploitations.

Still, survival is possible, if you happen to be in a clear area, but eventually the weather patterns will catch up with any short-term survivors.

Perhaps it’s best to go with the blast.

But don’t worry too much about Nuclear War, when Race War, Religious War, Gender Wars, Civil Wars and General Civil Unrest abound — war will be at the core of the 21st century, pretty much like the civil wars and bands of criminals that follow every collapse of organized civilization, bringing darkness and suppression for, generally, about six centuries.

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