You are talking about some common sense of nuclear war, everybody knows that.
China has also been preparing for nuclear strike since threatened by US with atomic bombs in Korean War. We have big public shelter instead of small ones for each family. There's a big one in my university. Many of the shelters have been built in the Mao years, and more are still under construction together with each public building.
I agree with you that what's important is that whether you are ready. Many Chinese in this forum are satisfied with Chinese nuclear ability, but I'm not. In my eyes, China is still way behind the US in this area, no matter the striking ability or the defense system.
It's actually not about war, it's about balance. NO country can be as powerful as the US since the end of cold war. To restore the balance of the whole world, China should have not 1000 warheads but more than 5000 as the US, 20+ SSBN, and red B52/B1b/B2/2018 bombers. Now could you understand the logic?
China is also developing it's own NMD and TMD system, but that's unrelated with this topic, you can check it in other threads.
Think you misunderstood my point, not just you as a citizen have to be ready, in fact, the prospect of getting nuked is imprinted in each of our mind and we are prepared in according to the extreme.
What I am saying is not the way you can prevent getting hit, but you assume getting hit is the certain. As far as I know with my time in China, we never have once Nuke Drill in China, I had a dozen when I am back in the US, and I lived MORE than half my life in China.
There are no replacement for Chinese government as far as I know, when the current regime under nuclear attack, there are no certain plan of Continuity of Governance that allow China to function as a functioning government in the post-apocalyptic future. For you, it may be a possibility that China
MIGHT be nuked, but for us, US getting nuke is a certainty and we prepare it on the scenario.
And I am not talking about citizenry common sense, but actual governmental planning, drilling, mock scenario were all rehearse again and again in the US.
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That level of readiness is not achieved and can be compared by any nation. We love our Apocalyptic Scenario, in fact we love them so much we have a "Survival business" that turn over about 50 millions each years. The shelter things is just one of the dimension we measure the readiness of Future Nuclear War, but by no mean that was the only indication. We have run scenario for
EVERYTHING, from getting nuke to Zombie Apocalypse, you are right, zombie apocalypse......
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In terms of Doomsday preparation, no one in this world is ahead of us,
NOBODY.
If I were you, I'd hide an equal number of Playboy Magazines with that too !
And some of those rations better include that famed shrimp & lobster off Skagerrak Coast otherwise the Mrs. would throw you out of the bomb shelter with all your 'magazines' !
People say canned food and salt will be king in post-apocalyptic world, I'll say, hooker is the currency of the future
I will say, people will need to resort to swinger type relation to repopulate the earth when that do happen. Otherwise when my children is breeding in the next generation, they will be inbreed, you need at least 2 sets of different gene to have good offspring.
By the way, what is the use of Porno if you can have sex any time you want?? That kind of defeat the purpose of playboy don't ya think??
Lol you cannot store lobster in your shelter, you can't keep them fresh for long, you have to assume power will be knocked out or at worse an EMP situation, fresh seafood is not a good idea. Can seafood on the other hand........