# Ok, how would YOU survive a nuclear war?

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**Created:** [November 26, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-would-you-survive-a-nuclear-war/138980 "2002-11-26T22:21:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-would-you-survive-a-nuclear-war/138980/21 "2002-11-30T03:25:30Z")

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“If you smile at me I will understand cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language”

“I can see by your coat, my friend, you’re from the other side. There’s just one thing I’ve got to know. Can you tell me please, who won the war?”

“Say, can I have some of your purple berries?”

“Yes, you can. I’ve been eating them for 6 or 7 weeks and only got sick once.”

“Probably keep us both alive.”

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-would-you-survive-a-nuclear-war/138980/22 "2002-11-30T03:44:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by FDISK \*  
> I’ll survive any attack because I live out of range of any possible targets, and am upwind of any strikes. Of course, immediately afterward my neighbors will come and kill me for my meat, but…

So you must live on the Oregon/California border on the coast or the northwest corner of Montana? Everywhere else in the continental US is downwind according to [fallout downwid models](http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/fallout.html).

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**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-how-would-you-survive-a-nuclear-war/138980/23 "2002-11-30T17:15:29Z")

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Stay in a radio shelter, and make bets with anyone else in there over whether the radio announcer says “new-clear”, or “nu-cu-lar”.

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