Scientifically inaccurate but perhaps a good reminder of nuclear risk

Those who grew up in the post cold war era may never have really thought about what nuclear war is and would mean. For those viewers, this movie might be very enlightening. Unfortunately the movie is incredibly inaccurate from a scientific standpoint. Like most nuclear war movies, it emphasizes radiation effects and exaggerates them while downplaying all the other dangers. If you do not have symptoms of radiation sickness within a week, you would not die from radiation. Radiation risk decreases quickly as radioactive material decays. Societal breakdown and lack of food / water / law enforcement / medical care would be much worse than depicted. Gas would run out extremely quickly, food would run out quickly, travel would only be possible on foot or perhaps via animals, and the strong would take all the resources from the weak.

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