Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”
A somewhat less popular cultural reference could be The Road from McCarthy.<p>Human scavengers roaming what's left, true, but mostly famished and trying to find food before anything else.<p>Maybe this time is the time we will renew the fear of nuclear annihilation. With Trump elected, Europe is turning to itself for its defence, and is already considering a common nuclear deterrence. Depending on its implementation, this could mean the end of the non-proliferation treaties.<p>Time to watch Threads again.