I have often thought it strange that in the event of a nuclear war, its key people that get to go down the bunker. You know the one's the mayor etc etc etc.
It does not make any sense really after all when its all over, I can not see Bush etc etc getting out there to clear shit and lay bricks to rebuild. Seems an arse about face way of doing things. They should be the last people to have a save hole to bolt to lol lol
Dammit Goose, we wouldn't be able to move bricks without lower, low level supervision, and they would need mid-lower level bosses who would need upper low level supers, who would need lower mid level supervisors, and so on.............to who would need the President......
THESE PEOPLE ARE ESSENTIAL. WITHOUT THEIR COCKUPS THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO DO.
In several of the apocalyptic stories and movies, those in the bunkers tend to die - either by becoming trapped and suffocating/starving eventually, exposure to radiation due to ineffective shelters or stormed and then killed by marauding survivors who were not able to take shelter.
I think I'd just take my chances here - there is nothing of stategic importance in my state and thousands of square miles of uninhabited land.
When I watched "On the Beach" I remember thinking I would rather have gone instantly than been one of those left in Australia. Bush et al are welcome to their bunker but I see the point you're making.
When I watched "On the Beach" I remember thinking I would rather have gone instantly than been one of those left in Australia. Bush et al are welcome to their bunker but I see the point you're making.
Good point. That's probably the bleakest of all the apocalyptic stories where survivors head for Australia but the radiation eventually catches up with them anyway.
The thinking is that those in shelters can come out again within a month or two but I feel that is a bit optimistic, given the number of warheads that would be used in a mutually assured destruction scenario.
I think it was "Threads" and possibly "The Day After" where shelters under public buildings basically entombed those with the knowledge and 'expertise' to manage the people left afterwards.
Personally, I liked Bryan Brown's character's exit in the remake of "On the Beach" where rather than wait for the radiation, he goes out with a bang in his sports car.
Yeah, it's like in 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' when one particular planet wanted to get rid of all the useless people that didn't contribute anything and sent them off in space. When they crashed landed, they spent years having meetings and talking about stuff and never achieving anything. Politicians are the last people we want in the bunker. Them and the royal family.