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    This has always been my plan since way back during the Cold War. I remember being taught in school to dive under the desk, duck and cover. I don’t want to survive the initial blast. The fallout will be so much worse. You can hide in the basement, I’m watching the fireworks.

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      The desk is an illusion of safety.

      If you’re as close to the blast as the comic depicts, any building your in will be leveled to the foundation a few seconds later. It’s not an earthquake where the walls might crack or the ceiling might come down. A nuclear pressure wave is a wall of superheated air that will knock down anything in its way until the energy is depleted.

      And fuck the basement. Last thing I want is for a nuke to go off and be trapped under the rubble of mine and my neighbors former homes while the room I’m in slowly floods with water and radioactive fallout

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        How I love bringing these dark thoughts into people’s minds just by drawing a little four panel comic.

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    This would likely be my reaction. I would not want to try and survive in the aftermath of a nuclear war. It would be SO MUCH WORSE than movies would have you believe.

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      Uh have you seen ‘Threads’?

      That movie is NOT fucking around

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        Parts of it, yeah. Ugh. In America, we got the much-watered-down (even optimistic, by comparison) The Day After.

        I also read a fallout shelter manual from the 50s. The limited steps they could recommend just served to underline how fucked you were. The sentence “don’t wait for help” spoke volumes.

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      I would never draw r/phonesarebad material. I love phones too much. They allow me to escape INTO VIRTUAL CYBERSPACE CHAT FORUMS AND IGNORE THE REAL WORLD. YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH zooms away on a flying keyboard