Nuclear War – Its not as Deadly as you Think – You Survived Mount St Helens Right?

I’m watching what a feckless path the anti-Bushers are forcing the country to take and thinking.  The main thought is one of consolation.  The consolation takes this form.

1) Whatever the terrorist group or nation state the first detonates a nuke in the USA we have more than they do.  ( I’m depending on this not being Russia or China )

2) Nuclear war is not nearly as deadly as its passed off to be.  Sure its deadly at close proximity.  But the USA is very large and its very likely we can completely rebuild our cities in presently uninhabited lands.   We have many state and national parks that we can shoo the bears out of and build housing developments in. 

Make no mistake, when push comes to shove if anything like a nuclear event occurs we’ll brush picayunish environmental concerns aside.  

Some parts of me get tired of knowing we’re powerless to do anything about Iran having the bomb simply because the Dem’s are willing to weaken the country simply so THEY have the political power.   This sort of thing sometimes makes me think we’d be better off if they did lob one of their small nukes in our backyard so we can systematically take their country apart with a blanket hit on all their major cities.   Of course if it really happened I would not be happy at all.

The dems so remind me of a big brother who would pimp out their little sister for spending money.  These guys especially at the national level have no class.  I can’t be the only one who sees this can I?

So all in all my consolation today is that a nuclear strike is survivable for most of the country.  Maybe the neurotic cause lobby will be shut down on nuclear power by something like this.  It’d be hard to get upset about a lil ole nuclear plant after being hit with a nuclear detonation.