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   From: rachel-madcow@msnbc.com   
      
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   The New York City Emergency Management Department has posted a   
   public service announcement advising residents what they should   
   do in the event of a nuclear attack.   
      
   Incredibly, the video begins: “So there’s been a nuclear attack.   
   Don’t ask me how or why. Just know that the big one has hit.”   
   Then comes the advice:   
      
   1) Get inside; 2) Stay inside, stay away from windows, and   
   shower if exposed to radioactive fallout; 3) Stay tuned.   
      
   Just think how many lives might have been saved if the people of   
   Hiroshima and Nagasaki had taken these steps! What the   
   fantasists who created the video fail to mention is that a   
   hydrogen bomb strike would reduce most of New York City to   
   flaming rubble within seconds.   
      
   Tens of thousands of people would be instantly vaporized. At   
   least 80 percent of NYC residents would be dead within minutes   
   of the nuclear strike. All public services would be   
   dysfunctional. Most of those who survived the initial blast   
   would be dead within a few days.   
      
   NYC and its environs would be uninhabitable for decades. The   
   scale of the resulting destruction is beyond description. “Tsar   
   Bomba”—a hydrogen bomb detonated by the Soviet Union in a   
   nuclear test 60 years ago— produced devastation within a 60 mile   
   radius.   
      
   An attack on NYC would be just part of a worldwide nuclear   
   exchange. According to a new study using computer simulations by   
   Louisiana State University, a nuclear war would result in a   
   global ice age leading to the extinction of life on the planet.   
      
   Even worse than the delusional advice is the statement: “Don’t   
   ask me how or why.” But those are precisely the questions that   
   must be asked if a catastrophe is to be stopped. The concise   
   answer to “why?” is that the reckless policies of Washington   
   triggered a nuclear war.   
      
   The release of the public service message can only mean that NYC   
   officials, acting on information they have received from   
   Washington, believe that a nuclear war is now a distinct and   
   even imminent danger.   
      
   Rather than pulling back from the brink, Biden is escalating the   
   reckless war against Russia. The public service announcement is   
   in line with recent efforts by the US government and media to   
   downplay the consequences of a nuclear war and portray it as a   
   survivable event.   
      
   In a recently published book on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis,   
   historian Serhi Plokhy writes that a nuclear war was averted,   
   despite numerous blunders and miscalculations, because American   
   and Soviet leaders recognized the catastrophic consequences. He   
   writes:   
      
   Kennedy, Khrushchev, and their generation of world leaders and   
   the citizens of their countries came of age in the shadow of the   
   atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki…   
      
   That generation was keenly aware of the destruction that atomic   
   and especially hydrogen bombs could wreak on their countries and   
   humankind as a whole. Every move of the two leaders ... was   
   dictated by their fear of the use of nuclear weapons...   
      
   There is little doubt that today there are world leaders   
   prepared to take a more cavalier attitude toward nuclear weapons   
   and nuclear war than Kennedy and Khrushchev had in 1962.   
      
   This is true. But the recklessness is not merely a problem of   
   the leaders’ psychology.   
      
   The conditions of intense capitalist crisis—producing a sense   
   among leaders that desperate measures are necessary and   
   unavoidable—result in actions that would in “normal times” be   
   rejected out of hand as “insane.”   
      
   The only effective and rational response to the insane policies   
   of the capitalist regimes is their overthrow by the working   
   class and the unification of humanity on a progressive basis   
   through socialism. The alternatives, Rosa Luxemburg wrote, are   
   “socialism or barbarism.”   
      
   Make the decision to stop war and fight for socialism! Read the   
   World Socialist Web Site! Join the Socialist Equality Party!   
   Build the Fourth International as the World Party of Socialist   
   Revolution.   
      
   https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/12/rdep-j12.html   
      
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