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The Effects of Nuclear War

http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1979/7906/7906.PDF

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This study was made in 1979 in response to a request from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. They wanted to understand what the effects of a nuclear war would be on the United States and the Soviet Union. What I found interesting is the Appendix C. It contains a fictional account written by Nan Randall of what would happen in Charlottesville, VA in the aftermath of all out nuclear war. Pretty crazy stuff. I can’t help but feel the outcome would be even more grim today, forty-one years after this was written, because of our increased reliance on technology.

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New Phone!

I just got a new phone, the Nuu Mobile F4L. It checks several boxes of what I’ve been searching for in a phone.

  1. It is a dumb phone.
  2. It can do group messages! I’ve purchased several dumb phones in the past only to find that they don’t do group text messages. It’s a deal breaker to have to constantly text people back and say, “I can’t read what you just sent me”.
  3. It allows for pretty fast texting. Some dumb phones are really slow, they can’t even keep up with the speed normal people text at. Having a dumb phone already means you are texting slower, so having to wait on the phone to catch up is another deal breaker.

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