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Recreating a fantasy setting in a post-apocalyptic world
I’m imagining a post-apocalyptic scenario as a thought experiment. It takes place 500 years after a nuclear war on the East Coast of what was the US, and is meant to roughly be a recreation of a high ...
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What would happen to nuclear missiles left to rot post-apocalypse? [duplicate]
A sudden cataclysm takes place. The human race is all but wiped away. And the nukes in their bunkers and silos are left to rot for 800 years before anyone finds a record of them. What has happened to ...
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Military/Government Breakdown in Post-Apocalyptic USSR
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In an alternative universe the Cold War (circa 1975) turns hot after some satellite communications errors. Nukes start flying — but for the purpose of the question, let's just focus on the ...
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How could a small group pre-apocalyptic people prevent the breakdown of an advanced nuclear-based power source generations later?
I've been toying with the idea of a world that was once hyper-technological, where body modification and nanotech-based body modifications were the norm such that society practically couldn't function ...
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After a major nuclear war/disaster, how much radiation would remain after ~300 years?
The setting for my story is a post-post-apocalyptic Earth. There was a nuclear war (and several related nuclear disasters due to power plants being either targeted or neglected), and it's already been ...
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Given the materials of a nuclear reactor, what is the most effective body of water to threaten pollution on?
I have a colony of semi-post-apocalyptic survivors who have created a deterrence scenario involving their access to both a nuclear reactor and some body(s) of water.
Ideally, I'd like the water to be ...
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Effect of nuclear fallout on glacial ice
I'm working on building a post nuclear war society in a nuclear winter where northern countries have risen to dominance through a combination of being non-primary targets in the nuclear war and having ...
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How to explain why there was no military presence after the apocalypse? [closed]
In the year twenty-hundred and sixty eight (2068) commie demons rose up from the underground and scorched the United States, and the United States Kingdom demons rose up from the underground and ...
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What would be the effects of a worldwide nuclear disaster? [closed]
I have a dystopian project coming up and I would like to ask for some advice. What would be the effects of a worldwide nuclear disaster? Some answers to include are:
How long until humans would be ...
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What will happen to a spent nuclear fuel pool without routine maintenance?
Assuming the human population is decimated (how doesn't matter) such that nuclear power plant maintenance is impossible. What would happen to a spent nuclear fuel rod pool? It seems to me that ...
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Nuclear holocaust survival? [closed]
Okay, so I'm writing a story about a character in one of the rebuilt cities of the world about 2000 years after a mass nuclear war that took place around maybe 100 years from now, a war that destroyed ...
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How would nuclear fallout affect the oceans?
I'm trying to build a setting in which humankind would have no other choice than to live underwater to survive.
Suppose there was a nuclear war in which a huge part of the human population died, and ...
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What could cause a post-apocalyptic, rapid desertification of vast areas of the world, similar to the land in Mad Max: Fury Road?
I apologise as this will be vague - but I am building a world set in the future (late 21st century) and looking at realistic ways for rapid desertification of huge land areas, say America, and ...
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Is it safe to grow and eat food on post-nuclear-war land?
Follow-up of Could the entire world have been destroyed by the existing nuclear arsenal in 1962?
Is it safe to grow food on land that was hit by nuclear bombs? Or will such food kill/fatally sicken ...
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Could the entire world have been destroyed by the existing nuclear arsenal in 1962?
Considering the nuclear arsenal that existed in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, could it have destroyed the entire world, following the events below?
Edited question a bit:
Considering the ...
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