Charlottesville: A Fictional Account of a Nuclear Attack

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Imagining the Unimaginable​

In 1979, the U.S. Senate commissioned a study on the effects of nuclear war. They wanted to know what would happen to government, the economy, and society if nuclear war were to break out between the USSR and the United States. What would the country be like afterwards? The result was an Office of Technical Assessment study titled, “The Effects of Nuclear War,” that outlined the specific effects of various attack scenarios, determining kill rates, illness levels, the effects on food supplies, etc. Tucked among technical reports that imaging the bombings of Detroit and Leningrad, as well as discussions of varois attack cases and long-term effects is a fifteen page fictional narrative written by Nan Randall that imagines life after the war in one specific city. In the words of the report authors, the fictional account was intendend "....in an effort to provide a more concrete understanding of the situation which survivors of a nuclear war would face...."

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Charlottesville: A Fictional Account of a Nuclear Attack (U.S. National Park Service)

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China wasn't able to colonize at the time that was written either. We'd have a hard time keeping them off of us should we suffer an EMP or nuclear attack.
 
Chuckman said:
Can you expound? Not sure I understand what you are saying.
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If China was not one of the parties involved as was believed in the scenario with the Soviet Union in today's time they would try to move in on US soil. I think it was even mentioned in one of the big EMP fiction books how they showed up to "help" but wouldn't leave.
 
ChickenHawk said:
If China was not one of the parties involved as was believed in the scenario with the Soviet Union in today's time they would try to move in on US soil. I think it was even mentioned in one of the big EMP fiction books how they showed up to "help" but wouldn't leave.
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OK, gotcha.

I don't think China has the manpower or log train to be expeditionary (a la Japan, WW2). BUT...throw in nukes and I think all bets are off for any scenario no matter how far-fetched it seems.
 
Chuckman said:
OK, gotcha.

I don't think China has the manpower or log train to be expeditionary (a la Japan, WW2). BUT...throw in nukes and I think all bets are off for any scenario no matter how far-fetched it seems.
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Yeah. It seems far fetched unless we are pretty much completely crippled. I would assume our navy would be mostly unaffected. At least those at sea. I believe that is why the book in question had them arrive on a humanitarian mission. I know it is fiction, but I hadn't thought about that before reading it. If we crossed nukes with anyone these days I assume China would be a part of that equation.
 
ChickenHawk said:
Yeah. It seems far fetched unless we are pretty much completely crippled. I would assume our navy would be mostly unaffected. At least those at sea. I believe that is why the book in question had them arrive on a humanitarian mission. I know it is fiction, but I hadn't thought about that before reading it. If we crossed nukes with anyone these days I assume China would be a part of that equation.
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Haven't WE been participating in "peacekeeping" and doing humanitarian stuff when countries suddenly experience changes in leadership?
 
China shows up in ONE SECOND AFTER and take over the West Coast while giving humanitarian aid.
 
Read the study in the OP. It was done in 1979 IIRC. That was before Carl Sagan and the Nuclear Winter scenario gained traction I believe. So will some rural communities survive or will the entire world be doomed?

I think the food shortage will be worse than what they assumed in that study.
 
China has no way to transport troops or equipment via naval routes so it would take time to get them here. I am told they are developing and making landing type ships and such to transport them on however. Some claim that is the only thing holding Xi back from taking Taiwan
 
Radar said:
China has no way to transport troops or equipment via naval routes so it would take time to get them here. I am told they are developing and making landing type ships and such to transport them on however. Some claim that is the only thing holding Xi back from taking Taiwan
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Invasion by Eric L Harry

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