Can you survive a nuclear war?
Can you survive a nuclear war? So you're worried about dying in a nuclear war. Today's nuclear weapons are devastating nightmares, but people can and do survive even when they are close to the bomb's blast radius. Japanese man Tsutomu Yamaguchi lived through the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and died at the age of 93. How likely is nuclear war? If you agree with my reasoning that the risk of a full-scale nuclear war is less than ten percent per year but greater than 0.1 percent per year, that leaves one percent per year as the order of...