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[Jackrabbit]

How about making a list of all the nice things that may come about as a result of a thermonuclear war? That should help ease your mind.

I'll even start you off:

1) Since there should be a massive loss of life, that means more Twinkies for you.

This is so incredibly forward thinking. Yoink.

[Loud Whispers]

But hubirs, the war has already happened. It's time to WAKE UP.

Screw this, the world's doomed, I'm going back to sleep :|

[Reudh]

Come to melbourne. It's one of the only capital cities without a missile pointed at it, and the roaring forties takes crap away.

But the threat of MAD is enough to stop really any country from attacking any other, in my opinion.

[Loud Whispers]

Come to melbourne. It's one of the only capital cities without a missile pointed at it, and the roaring forties takes crap away.

But the threat of MAD is enough to stop really any country from attacking any other, in my opinion.

Yup.

Would you rather be in a room where one person is pointing a gun at everyone, or a room where everyone is pointing guns at everyone? And there are invisible guns pointing at everyone? And said invisible guns can vaporize everyone in the room?

[Il Palazzo]

Go and watch Threads if you're in the UK, Testament and The Day After Duck and Cover if you're an US resident, and Mad Max series if you're an Aussie. Knowing what to expect will ease your mind.

[Muz]

It's not completely improbable, so there's nothing insane about it. But what's the worst that can happen? People dying? Everyone dies anyway. Loss of possessions? Not much worse than a natural disaster, be grateful you don't live in Japan or Indonesia or Hawaii. Maybe getting radiation cancer is the worst that could happen.

The Japanese got nuked and now they're stronger than ever. They recovered from near total destruction and became one of the world's strongest powers after a few decades. If a nuclear war happens, it's still more merciful than WW2 was, and our grandparents survived through that.

[ChairmanPoo]

. If a nuclear war happens, it's still more merciful than WW2 was, and our grandparents survived through that.

Lets not get ourselves carried off. A nuclear war would almost certainly be much nastier than WW2. I bet even a limited nukefling between India and Pakistan would result in more casualties.

[DJ]

The nice thing about Australia is that it's already a wasteland, so there really isn't all that much that nukes can do to it.

[Loud Whispers]

The Japanese got nuked and now they're stronger than ever. They recovered from near total destruction and became one of the world's strongest powers after a few decades. If a nuclear war happens, it's still more merciful than WW2 was, and our grandparents survived through that.

And how much help did they get from America again?

[forsaken1111]

The Japanese got nuked and now they're stronger than ever. They recovered from near total destruction and became one of the world's strongest powers after a few decades. If a nuclear war happens, it's still more merciful than WW2 was, and our grandparents survived through that.

Nuking two cities is considered near total destruction?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The Japanese got nuked and now they're stronger than ever. They recovered from near total destruction and became one of the world's strongest powers after a few decades. If a nuclear war happens, it's still more merciful than WW2 was, and our grandparents survived through that.

And how much help did they get from America again?

They also were nuked twice, as opposed to the saturation bombardment that a modern nuclear war would result in.

[Il Palazzo]

But what's the worst that can happen?

The collapse of civilisation as we know it is the scary thing about global nuclear war. Reemergence of tribalism, cannibalism and slavery, as the economic and logistical infrastructure dissolves, food imports cease and the existing farmlands become contaminated with radioactive fallout. Technological throwback to pre-industrial era coupled with significantly increased dose of radiation would result in rampant epidemics and even the most marginalised today ailment potentially causing death.
The fear that modern society effectively eliminated from our lives would once again rule the existence of whomever survives.
In WW2 people could expect only enemy soldiers to act inhumanely, here its their neighbours, maybe even family.

[ChairmanPoo]

Reemergence of tribalism, cannibalism and slavery

To be fair, that's the good part as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQC3nkftrk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Montague]

There was a while when I had several, vivid, lurid dreams about nuclear war and massive disasters and their aftermath and whatnot. Some of them bothered me all day which cased me to think about it and research it quite a bit.

Then again I was playing Fall-Out 3 alot at the time, and the dreams and interest stopped sometime after I got bored with the game and bored with watching nuclear test footage on Youtube and whatever else. Such cases.

So my advice would be to find some other non-nuclear-war related interest and focus on that instead. The chances of it happening are extremely unlikely, especially if you don't live in North Korea, Israel, Iran or a military base near those countries. Even then, full-scale nuclear war is completely out of the question these days. Even nuclear terrorism is highly unlikely, for now at least.

[Shakerag]

The nice thing about Australia is that it's already a wasteland, so there really isn't all that much that nukes can do to it.

Except, you know, the radiation would make Australian spiders EVEN FUCKING BIGGER.


Seriously, though.  This is nearly exactly something I've worried about before as well.  Basically, I came to peace with it.  It's unlikely we'd have massive nuclear war, because what would be the point?  Anyone launching a nuke is likely to get one in return, and what would be the victory there?  It's hard to feel good about destroying your enemy when your own country is a smoking crater itself. 

Also, if nuclear war is going to happen, there's fuck all you could do about it anyway, just like there's little you could do if you got blindsided pulling into a bad intersection.  There's not a bomb dropping overhead right now, so just do what you're going to do anyway and watch for bad drivers.