Nuclear Porn, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ’24’
“Sure, 9/11 was a pinprick compared to a nuke. Or even several nukes. But the truth is that – unlike an all-out nuclear exchange with the USSR – America would survive a nuclear terrorist attack.
The real question is, how would we survive? With or without civil liberties? With or without the rule of law? With or without our humanity?
These are genuine, pressing questions. But they are not Mad Max, fantasy questions. They’re not even On The Beach questions.
They are legitimate questions about a survivable and plausible event, and they are questions that every American should be thinking about. Now. Before it happens.”
I completely agree with Mr. Rotellos analysis of this issue and like him, I am grateful to the producers of 24 for bringing this issue to the minds of average Americans. The conversation on Family Civil Defense against Nuclear Terrorism is LONG overdue in our culture. I believe we need to let the cult of personality around our celebrities go, and focus our energies teaching people in our society how to be self sufficient.
Here is a compilation of my own writings about nuclear issues on this blog:
Interview on Provident Living/Family Preparedness
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Nuclear Survival
Jenny Hatch