Nuclear Winter Survival

What's the sort of lifestyle and level of necessities that a person in a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter setting would live by?

Gasoline expires, food rots, water becomes polluted. There's a lot of variables and factors in any given nuclear war that changes each little aspect, but for a general idea, let's say this: All of the world's ICBMs have been used, although not all are effective. Some land in the ocean, some don't detonate, etc etc. Ash and smoke rise into the atmosphere and keep the Earth in a mini ice-age Sunlight is a rarity, crops that aren't sheltered are wasted, the soil is toxic, and it is an everlasting winter. Temperatures reach a -20 degrees Fahrenheit high at all times of the day, and that's in places near the equator, not Wyoming or Montana.

What kinds of items does a prepper need to have to survive a perpetual winter? It's obviously different than /out/ing on a frosty trail, because now you have to combat other people and survive on your own.

So, what is it Jow Forums? What's a guy got to do to live in this kind of world for a few decades more, until he and his bunker full of inbred kin pass away down underground?

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>Nuclear Winter Survival
Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov defected in 2000, he said that the KGB was especially proud of the fact “it created the myth of nuclear winter”.

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"The KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing II missiles." - Tretyakov in

Comrade J.: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War Pete Earley

Well, shit. Didn't know that.

Fuck it. Fantasy time, then. Same question, but in a fictitious weather anomaly: What kinds of items does a prepper need to have to survive a perpetual winter?

Tretyakov “I was told the Soviet scientists knew this theory was completely ridiculous. There were no legitimate facts to support it. But it was exactly what Andropov needed to cause terror in the West.”

>Well, shit. Didn't know that.

No problem user. Well documented. Have a read of this
rationaloptimist.com/blog/nuclear-winter/

One of their highpoints was having nuclear winter feature in the bbc film 'threads' but they always tried harder and focused more intensely their 'active measures' bullshit in the UK

>What kinds of items does a prepper need to have to survive a perpetual winter?

An igloo eskimo pussy and baby seals

>sov source
Disinformation plant.

>rationaloptimist.com/blog/nuclear-winter/
“Propagators of the nuclear winter thus acted as dupes in a disinformation exercise scripted by the KGB”, concludes Darwall. We can never be entirely certain of this because Tretyakov’s KGB colleagues may have been exaggerating their role and he is now dead. But that the KGB did its best to fan the flames is not in doubt.

It soon became apparent that the nuclear winter hypothesis was plain wrong. As the geophysicist Russell Seitz pointed out, “soot in the TTAPS simulation is not up there as an observed consequence of nuclear explosions but because the authors told a programmer to put it there”. He added: “The model dealt with such complications as geography, winds, sunrise, sunset and patchy clouds in a stunningly elegant manner — they were ignored.” The physicist Steven Schneider concluded that “the global apocalyptic conclusions of the initial nuclear winter hypothesis can now be relegated to a vanishingly low level of probability”.

The physicists Freeman Dyson and Fred Singer, who would end up on the opposite side of the global-warming debate from Schneider and Seitz, calculated that any effects would be patchy and short-lived, and that while dry soot could generate cooling, any kind of dampness risked turning a nuclear smog into a warming factor and a short-lived one at that.
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>Disinformation plant.
aw fuck off. the kgb were dancing around on this shit their hands were all over it he was just a high level defector who confirmed it.

>Steven Schneider concluded that “the global apocalyptic conclusions of the initial nuclear winter hypothesis can now be relegated to a vanishingly low level of probability”.

what can i substitute baby seals with if i live in the brown side of town

Nuclear winter isn’t real. Temps will change a little bit, but nothing catastrophic.

>nuclear winter
Please, Tambora gave more winter than nukes ever would. Wouldn't even last as long too if it happened.
Not many do, but the KGB was mostly dssigned for misinformation schemes, basically spreading lies and whatnot to the populace, not actual spoopy espionage for the most part. The defectors were what made us know this to begin with.

>Goats

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Change it to an asteroid/comet strike >1mi diameter, and you have something as bad as or even worse than nuclear winter was (falsely) claimed to be.

Well an asteroid comet strike on land would be really bad, but considering a comet strike would probably break up in the atmosphere or hit water that's the potential scenario you should be looking at.

>What's a guy got to do to live in this kind of world

Have good plot armor, I guess. If he’s not going to be the protagonist, he needs to be an indispensible secondary character. Possibly a loyal sidekick, although that brings its own risks.

Good luck selling the story line, OP. It’s been done to death, most people are aware that nuclear winter is fiction. Maybe if you pitch it as a Heinleinesque retro sci-fi story, you might get some takers. Subterranean dystopia sort of thing.

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