Jay, yes. <it is best that all get more prepared for the unexpected and expected, the known knowns and unknown knowns, especially true if the policeman is dim. No?>
If China and Russia attack Taiwan, and perhaps North Korea simultaneously attacks South Korea ... eeek! Such attacks seem crazy, but people are obviously planning on going crazy as the thousands of nuclear warheads haven't been built with the intention of them never being used, or they wouldn't have bothered including fissionable material in them.
Yes, yes, we know that guns don't kill people, people kill people, and nukes don't kill people, people kill people, but when people have weaponry, and they get hot under the collar, they are inclined to pull out a gun, or nuke, or whatever is available.
So while the intention is not to use nukes, at present, with a bit of lead up, one thing and another, and so on and after some carnage, as already happened in Japan, with the USA starting and finishing the world's first weapons of mass destruction nuclear war against two cities full of civilians, maybe somebody will figure out that it's better to let rip with at least some tactical nuclear weapons, if not the biggie hydrogen fusion 20 megatonners, if only to show "them" how serious the situation has become.
Being prepared is an excellent idea. Perhaps a bunker is not such a silly extravagance. It would be handy for tsunami protection too.
I recall a Boy Scout's motto "Be preared, zing-a-zing bom, bom". I'm sure that's how they spelled bom. I never until just now considered the possibility that they meant bomb, bomb. It always seemed a silly motto. What the heck was the zing-a-zing thing? Bom bom? Huh? I'll ask Google if it recalls that. Sure enough, Google is amazing. See page 6 thedump.scoutscan.com
I never did get my "Tenderfoot" though I can tie a bowline and reef knot and won the fire competition on camp [I like fire!] The whole business seemed silly, though I enjoyed hide and seek. I gave up Scouts after not long.
Maybe I should be prepared.
Mqurice
PS: As a child [about 8 or 10 I guess] I tried digging a bunker, but unfortunately I hit solid lava about a foot down, so it was not a good bunker. I was short of drilling and blasting equipment, so gave up. I hid some money in a jar, just in case, but later couldn't remember where I'd buried it. Maybe that's why I don't like the idea of burying gold. |
