What Would Life Be Like After a Nuclear Apocalypse?

[matthewmckean]

In my opinion, it's not about "can you survive a nuclear war", it's more like "do you really want to survive a nuclear war?"

[Not-Great-at-Gaming]

We'll use bottle caps for currency and mutated creatures will roam the wasteland.

[Byrd]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for nuclear winter.

[proceonproceon]

The fucked up thing is only the people who are hunkered down in fall out shelters get to push the button

[Spondre]

It is just me or does Simon appear remarkably cheerful while describing nuclear winter?

[thefrub]

How many channels does this guy have? He wakes up, talks into a camera for 16 hours, then passes out. God bless this hardworking man

[bobross]

As a few other brave souls have commented about, I have seen more recent studies that have questioned the whole nuclear winter thing and have claimed that the effects have been way overstated, maybe rightly, to scare people. The studies suggest that based upon 40 years of research since the nuclear winter scenario, observations about volcanos and other disasters have shown that particulates do not stay in the atmosphere as long as feared and actually come back down fairly quickly. Maybe even weeks to a few months.

Now, that is not to downplay the millions that would die in the blast zones and from fallout and other problems but rural areas might not be as bad off as feared. And if there is no, or limited nuclear winter, that would mean that most of the southern hemisphere would actually be pretty okay.

[craigsheffield]

Growing up with a Fallout Shelter in every school I attended, this kind of hits me like a feather. Plus, my dad was in the Air Force Security Service, so I knew what would happen anyway.

[seano]

For the sheer bleakness and horror, watch Threads. I'm 55 and grew up with the threat of nuclear war seemingly inevitable. Threads scared the absolute crap out of me. It made Mad Max and the accompanying films seem like a holiday 😂

[garyfinchum]

If you've seen one thermo-nuclear war, you've seen them all.

[BlatentlyFakeName]

The people who caused it would be safe in their bunkers until the worst of the fallout passes. So we need to remember to be waiting for them when they emerge...

[whynospoon]

Albert Einstein - "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones".

[LennoxMatt]

I decided a long time ago that I have zero desire to survive an apocalypse

[deph]

As at least one other user has cited, I second watching a film called Threads (1984). A stark and grim look into what the reality of a nuclear apocalypse could be instead of how the Fallout series makes it out to be.

[aerial]

What depresses me is the amount of wildlife and animals would die in this Apocalypse of nuclear attack?

[MattW-rsuh]

Annie Jacobsen said there's no such thing as a 'limited' nuclear war. The moment the 1st is launched It's total oblivion

[carolgold-boyd]

Kudos for using humor to approach this subject because honestly the only way to consider this sort of hellish scenario without running screaming for the hills is Dark Humor. Very Dark Humor. With a little sprinkle of sarcasm on top. Also, loving the new channel. 👍

[donhoverson]

One thing not mentioned here is the hemisphere difference. When you look at all the nuclear war scenarios the missiles are all flying in the northern hemisphere. The Southern hemisphere would be relatively untouched at least by the missiles themselves. They would still get hit by nuclear winter of course but otherwise would be okay. South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America. Those would be the place to be.

[markgray]

I think Simon has been enjoying some post apocalyptic homebrew around the fire, cause he so happy with this video!!!

[TaeSunWoo]

11:52 Terminator 3 was a lot of things but that Judgement Day scene hit heavy