Best place to survive nuclear war in the U.S. (Note that we never had to worry about this when TRUMP was President) (www.newsweek.com)

Biden recently said Russia may be leading the world into nuclear “Armageddon,” while Elon Musk tweeted that “nuclear war probability is rising rapidly.”

In the wake of President Biden‘s mention of nuclear “armageddon”, and Elon Musk tweeting that “nuclear war probability is rising rapidly,” it is natural that people have pondered online what they would do, and where they would shelter, in the event of a nuclear war.

But, the safest place to go in the case of a nuclear bomb being detonated depends on where the bomb is targeted, as well as the size of the nuclear weapons, the time of year, the weather conditions, and variety of other factors, meaning the safest location will vary considerably.

Some estimates name Maine, Oregon, Northern California, and Western Texas as some of the safest locales in the case of nuclear war, due to their lack of large urban centers and nuclear power plants.

Nuclear bombs use heavy, unstable isotopes of radioactive elements to release immense amounts of energy, unleashing destruction on a site of choice.

The U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945 killed many hundreds of thousands of civilians using nuclear fission bombs, with their uranium and plutonium fuels undergoing almost instantaneous chain reaction of atom splitting, releasing the equivalent energy of 15,000 and 21,000 tons of TNT, respectively.

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