How To Survive a Nuclear War
5/19/202638 min
The air raid sirens scream (actually, they don’t work anymore). An emergency alert goes out, because … nuclear missiles are in-bound.
It’s happening! How do we survive (non-Hollywood edition)? From diving into crumbling fallout shelters to emerging into a world where nuclear winter is descending, Ben explores what armageddon would actually look like, what the movies get wrong, and why — for most of us — it’s not a flash of light, but a cramped slog.
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Ben Bradford· Host0:18
[siren] You realize you're hearing air raid sirens. [upbeat music] Your phone, which is on silent, suddenly blares. It's an emergency alert, "Nuclear missiles inbound." [missiles whooshing] "This is not a test. This is not a test." You stare until a text from a friend jolts you into action. [people screaming] If we follow the roadmap of countless TV shows, novels, video games, what we do next is clear. We scurry down a ladder and clamp the hatch [ladder clanking] on a fallout shelter, maybe ramshackle, maybe decked out. We hunker in a gloomy underground, peeling open cans of food, maybe for months, maybe for years, waiting- To come up to the surface one day and restart civilization. When we do reemerge, we join a sandy wasteland of sheet metal and cannibals.
Lily Shaw· Guest1:18
This is Thunderdome. Death is listening.
Ben Bradford· Host1:20
[crowd chanting] It's not great, but at least it's exciting. I love post-apocalypse movies,