Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Spicoli
it's not like they are saying that it will save your life, but it just gives the slightest chance of survival, it's like a security blanket.. i hope i don't sound like a dumbass right now lol
You're not a dumbass. (at least I don't think so)
Even though the nukes we have now make the ones we dropped on the Japanese look like pop rocks, during the 60's in particular there was the deranged concept of MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction. We had enought nuke power in our sub fleet alone to blow up Russia about 15 or 20 times. (gives real meaning to the word overkill) And the Russians (former USSR) had about the same capacity. In the event of all out nuclear war, there was no survival. Only the twisted satisfaction of knowing that if we died, so would they and vice versa. Ain't that special?