A simpler analysis might be helpful for those who aren’t intellectual professionals.
We can reasonably guess it would only take about 50 nukes to destroy America’s largest cities.
This would likely collapse the food distribution system, resulting in widespread starvation.
How long could the average citizen survive on the food that they currently have on hand. For most people the answer will be, not very long.
Uncontrollable chaos begins not with hunger and starvation, but at the moment that a critical mass of people realize that they are not going to be able to replenish their food supplies by legal means.
A simpler analysis might be helpful for those who aren’t intellectual professionals.
We can reasonably guess it would only take about 50 nukes to destroy America’s largest cities.
This would likely collapse the food distribution system, resulting in widespread starvation.
How long could the average citizen survive on the food that they currently have on hand. For most people the answer will be, not very long.
Uncontrollable chaos begins not with hunger and starvation, but at the moment that a critical mass of people realize that they are not going to be able to replenish their food supplies by legal means.