{"id":40247,"date":"2025-10-05T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=40247"},"modified":"2025-10-05T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:55:26","slug":"nuclear-war-expert-revealed-safest-part-of-the-world-to-live-in-case-of-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=40247","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear war expert revealed safest part of the world to live in case of end of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global tensions are at a higher point than is entirely comfortable at the moment, driven in large part by Russian bluster to other countries over its frustration at having an impotent invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin<\/a> reckoned his invasion would be done and dusted in about three days but instead his armies have become bogged down and more than three years later, Russia<\/a> has not gained much ground.<\/p>\n

With its armies embarrassed by Ukraine<\/a> on the battlefield, Russia has been looking for some way to work out its frustrations and it seems one of its favourite ways to do this is by threatening the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Putin’s propagandists enjoy going on about how they’re going to bomb the UK and recently claimed they had 23 locations marked out<\/a> for potential bomb strikes.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s not doing well in Ukraine but they do have a lot of nuclear weapons (Oleg Elkov\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Tensions between Russia and NATO<\/a> are running high, particularly after a spate of incidents where Russian aircraft have violated the airspace<\/a> of NATO countries.<\/p>\n

Given that Russia is stuck in Ukraine, a conventional war between them and NATO seems very unlikely to go Putin’s way but Russia is sitting on their trump card, the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.<\/p>\n

Hanging over all like the sword of Damocles is the dreaded nuclear button, and if it’s ever pressed that would probably be the end of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario<\/em>, has identified the safest part of the world in case you’d prefer to avoid the prospective apocalypse.<\/p>\n

You’d best hope you’re a Lord of the Rings<\/em> fan, because the top spot to survive a nuclear winter is good old New Zealand which has the advantage of largely being out of the way of everywhere else.<\/p>\n

The expert named it and Australia<\/a> as the best places to hunker down for a different reason though, and that’s the after-effects of the bombs being dropped.<\/p>\n

For those not caught in the initial blast, they’ll then have to contend with everything going the way of Threads<\/em><\/a> and trying to eke out a living in an irradiated hell-hole which will make it difficult to grow crops or rear livestock.<\/p>\n

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That’s one fine looking place to hopefully not die in a nuclear apocalypse (Nazar Abbas Photography\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Not if you come from a land down under, or just adjacent to it, as Jacobsen described the ecological impact of a nuclear winter on the survivors of the bombs.<\/p>\n

“Most of the world, certainly the mid-latitudes would be covered in sheets of ice… places like Iowa and Ukraine would be just snow for 10 years,” she told<\/a> the Diary of a CEO<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n

“Agriculture would fail, and when agriculture fails people just die.<\/p>\n

“On top of that you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you couldn’t be outside in the sunlight – people will be forced to live underground fighting for food everywhere except in New Zealand and Australia.”<\/p>\n

Painting a very gloomy picture of nuclear war, not that it’s really possible to be optimistic about it, she reckons that within the first 72 minutes<\/a> about 60 percent of the world’s population could be wiped out.<\/p>\n

All in all, it would be better for everyone not to have a nuclear war, but if you want to move to New Zealand then we’re not going to stop you as it’s apparently very nice there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Image<\/cite><\/p>\n

Topics:\u00a0Russia<\/a>, Ukraine<\/a>, World News<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, UK News<\/a>, NATO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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