# Outcome of nuclear escalation and general Nuclear concerns Ukraine - Russia

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**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outcome-of-nuclear-escalation-and-general-nuclear-concerns-ukraine-russia/962302 "2022-04-04T23:08:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outcome-of-nuclear-escalation-and-general-nuclear-concerns-ukraine-russia/962302/9 "2022-04-05T01:09:25Z")

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> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#):
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> I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy at the bottom some of our deeper mine shafts.

Or maybe not. (I won’t vouch for the scientific accuracy; I don’t know enough.)

> **[Level 7 (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_7_(novel))**
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> Level 7 is a 1959 science fiction novel by the Ukrainian-born Israeli writer Mordecai Roshwald. It is told from the first-person perspective (a diary) of a modern soldier, X-127, living in the underground military complex Level 7, where he and several hundred others are expected to reside permanently. X-127 fulfills the role of 'push-button' offensive initiator of his nation's nuclear weapons capacity against an unspecified enemy. X-127 narrates life within a deep shelter before, during and af Du...

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