>"Why keep score? WWIII will be such a fair thing, nobody left behind."
I've been reading up on that topic. Nuclear war could actually be survivable by many people.
Those near ground zero of the targets would die and anyone who could not find shelter underground would succumb to the radiation from the fallout. Of those who go underground and are properly shielded and could stay underground for a couple weeks, they could survive. Although many of those would have shortened lives due to increased cancer rates.
There would be plenty of food for awhile because there would be so few people compared to all of the canned food and such at various locations in the distribution chain. That food could actually last for a decade or so until the survivors got organized and started growing food again.
It would be one of the worst catastrophes that humans had ever experienced, but fortunately (or unfortunately) the species would survive.
