Worried about nuclear war

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All this talk about Korea and nuclear war is making me depressed. I've just got my life sorted, I'm getting engaged soon and there's so much I want to do, and now those f*****g sick Korean c***s have to kill the whole world off. Just because they are so f*****g hellbent on bombing America doesn't mean the rest of the world has to suffer. Why can't they just stop and think how beautiful the Earth is and how precious life is, instead of planning on wars and killing everybody off with bombs? How drastic. It's no point in looking forward to anything any more, as we're going to be dead in 2 years. I know we're all going to die one day and all that s**t but I don't want to KNOW when and how I'm going to die, and only having 2 years to live.

f*****g c***s I f*****g hate war I DON'T WANT TO DIE!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

North Korea is just bluffing, and using their "threats" to keep their propaganda machine going.

Please try not to worry about this.

I never thought I'd say this, as I was depressed and suicidal a mere 3 years ago, but I do have so much to live for. I've been on antidepressants over a year now and still feeling great on them, I have a boyfriend who is NT but understands me and loves my quirks, and he wants to take me to see different places....I don't want to be wiped out because of one pissed off country. I just get angry about it.

Actually, even back when I was depressed and suicidal, I still didn't want to be finished off by a nuclear bomb. I know you won't know about it after you die, but thinking about it before it happens is still frightening and terrifying.

But I hope you are right. You normally are, as you seem rather knowledgeable in your posts. A bit of reassurance does go a long way for me. Thanks.

I checked a couple of my news sources, and North Korea hasn't talked about nuclear war in the last couple days that I can find. I did find where apparently Kim Jong Un is executing his top generals with anti-aircraft guns. When I saw your post I thought you were talking about Russia since I've been reading that English media has been on an anti-Russia tear for a while. So, I don't know what triggered you, but I can tell you're upset. Well, if you were going to die in a few years, what would you do, cower in a corner or try to stuff as much happiness and living into your remaining life as possible?

Pretty much. There are also much more worrying things going on in the world; namely climate change and hos disastrous the effects will be in the coming decades.

They want the world to not take them seriously and think by doing ridiculous publicity stunts so that no one invades them and topples their regime, thus letting them able to keep their status quo going. They want people to think they are a joke so nobody thinks about all the atrocities they have been committing the past 60+ years.

It's too bad really, and it's really sad what's going on there. The people of North Korea know that the government is bull****, but they are too scared to even say anything to one another to even get a movement(s) going to topple their leaders so they keep up the charade of worshiping their leaders so they don't get shipped off to a camp. That, or they flee the country when or if the opportunity comes.

from what I've read a more realistic attack would be emp off the west coast, to take out he US power grid for two years. this would allow them to take south korea in the time it takes the US to rebuild if it survives the two years. they're go is to unite korea as one sh***y nation under his rule not to bomb the whole world. he only does this to stay relevant because if he did't pull some s**t like this he wouldn't' get aid or attention. no one cares about north korea. really the south isn't even concerned. so until they are the rest of us shouldn't be. just another day in korea.

really the truth is any move against the west would piss china off and china is the only nation who helps korea so they don't want that. NK don't really want a war, they can't feed a united korea. china don't' want the political mess or mass refugees flooding in from NK. SK doesn't want to unite either as it would bankrupt them to care for NK.

its super annoying though but nothing can be done. I'd say china should instate a gov change in NK but then that'd risk destabilizing the barely stable nation.

I lived through the "Duck and Cover" nuclear attack school drills in the 1960's. People were also encouraged to build personal bomb shelters. My family didn't have one but I toured a few. The Cuban missile crisis was exciting. I remember very long military convoys racing down highways as we amassed troops in Florida.

I personally view the threats today as low. As others have noted, NK loves to rattle sabers. With China's rapid rise in the world economy, I doubt they would tolerate NK rocking the boat too much.

I have not heard much about nuclear war, seems like empty threats though as its not the first time North Korea has threatened with that and not followed through. Besides if they nuked anywhere near you it would f*** them up to, which would not help any goals of world domination that totalitarian dictators are often obsessed with. I am more worried about the severe weather, I found it a bit odd there severe weather warnings through Sunday for the Midwest moving east and it stretches from Canada to Mexico, I don't know if it will dissipate before continuing even further east into the ocean. That is more concerning to me than threats of nuclear war at the time being its a big a** storm and apparently getting stronger, according to the news I watched. Either way storms that large aren't really a great sign for anyone I don't think. But storms are significantly easier to survive than nuclear war for sure...so that's one good thing.

This is a rather pressing interest of mine as well - the only real difference is that the only respect in which I'm honestly getting my own life started is professionally. The technical skill that makes its' way to the surface online is really only half of me; I grew up in many different kinds of laboratories. One of the highest items on my list of reasons for seeking more education is the possibility of working for the International Atomic Energy Agency. What I can tell you as a result of being a physics & geopolitics nerd is that the countries you should be doing such homework on, in no particular order as they're all despotic and volatile are; The United States, Russia, China, India and so fourth. The PRK's ballistic guidance capabilities are far below that of the Khrushchev era Russian weaponry. Living in America, I often feel like the only person in my entire city who marvels each day at the exquisite natural world at our feet. I know a few exceptions to this rule, though circumstances often coerce them to turn a blind eye. Judging from the subtext I read from daily realities of media and propagandist thought in this country, I can't blame my friends for getting caught up. The struggle to impart peace and simplicity in such an age is a full time job for me that demands a lot of cultivated mental strength. Engineering and inferential aptitude is always a good skill to hone.

I was a survivalist for a while, it's possible to survive a nuclear war. Also bioterrorism, which is more likely. Do your research, prepare your place and be ready.

I gave it up when Y2K never happened and I was too let down over it. I was stuck with all this bottled water, ammo, crappy canned food, and a compost toilet.

^ In a strange, roundabout way, that's a really funny positive story. Color me delighted all that expenditure turned out to be moot. Personally I'm pretty difficult to eradicate, though it's because I prepare myself more than my home; all that's worth saving around here is the cat, my bikes, skis and my car. Worst comes to worst I know how to seriously get away from everything and everyone, build a shanty cabin, greenhouses and scrape together anything I need. I'm more at home in high mountains than my home.

I've got so many loved ones that I don't want to lose, and it will just be awful if this nuclear war happened. I've always been thankful that I didn't live in the 1940's, and I didn't think there would be any more wars. Each day I'm living in fear that I might see some sort of bomb thing in the distance, coming my way ready to destroy all of mankind. What is the matter with these countries? I don't want to know when I'm going to die. I can't do all the things I want to do within the next two years. Me and my boyfriend are still saving up. I really cannot live through a war. It wouldn't feel right these days. Wars remind me of ''the olden days'', where families and neighbours were closer, kids were more disciplined, computers weren't invented, hardly no cars on the road, etc etc. These days it seems to be all about money, not so much world wars. Maybe constant wars in Iraq and those sorts of stupid places, but I remember it was all about war in Iraq back in 2002 or 2003, which worried me back then because there was talk of a nuclear bomb. I remember going into meltdowns back then from panic and fear, and I was only 12. But nothing happened. I forgot about it after a couple of months, and I didn't hear any more mentions of it on the news, and I'm still alive today. So I'm hoping this will be the same thing; just a big blow up (no pun intended!), and threats of nuclear wars or nuclear bombs, then it all dyes down again until the next time. *Gives a nervous, hopeful expression*...

Your survival skills compound themselves when you learn to fall back on your idealized 'cavalier' attitude upon hitting emotional lows such as the ones you described. No matter how much you might want your own Soviet surplus respirator, those can't help you at all if you don't strengthen your core musculature. Most interpretations of Darwinian logic are BS. I suggest cutting the finance out of all such ideas of yours. You really wouldn't believe some of the things I've lived through if I told you, though no matter the situation all it really comes down to is being observant, resilient and ascertaining the path that won't get you killed. It's usually an actual path, and dead weight in wallets and treasure holds is well documented as a common factor in mortality.

I often reflect on the way Winston Churchill projected confidence. good humor and calm defiance, even when defeat seemed almost certain. Because, that's what you do if you want the people who look to you, to weather the storm. A leaders disposition is infectious. Seeing news media constantly reacting to every potential threat and non threat with hysteria, it's hard to shake the feeling that they are rooting for the storm.

Its pointless letting worry about nuclear war get you like that, if it comes it comes and eternal damnation to whoever makes that decision but living in fear of it does no good either as that is not really living. I like Bob Dylan's take on it.



I wouldn't worry about North Korea btw, they like to sabre rattle to get attention for more aid and are in no realistic way able to wage war against another country outside the Korean peninsula. They aren't pushovers tho and we can't treat them like we did Iraq, we can just wait them out.

I remember the end of the cold war "sigh" what a huge dissapointment, nothing ever happened. I supose North Korea is to chicken to start anything for real. So disappointed. Oh well.