I keep wondering about it -- along about the time Ukraine or Russia drops a missile on a reactor by mistake or Uncle Vlad gets crazier and deploys something he shouldn't with large-scale bad results either way, and assuming nobody else leaps before they look, how long will it be before the conspiracy-theorizing, government-and-media-always-lie crowd starts claiming that fallout is fake, that nobody needs to filter the air they're breathing? How long before they yell that it's just another plot, and those iodine pills are just a way to get secret 5G mind-control chips into everyone?
Here's the thing: fallout from that kind of event is insidious. Obvious, widespread effects are unlikely. Just an uptick in cancers, birth defects and suchlike; just worse lives and shorter. So the "it's all faaaaaake!" crowd will have plenty of time to emote and a complete lack of radiation-mutated monsters to point out.
Oh, well. All that much iodine for the rest of us, I suppose.
IF Putin is sane (I know there are poor odds on that), he won't go that far because the prevailing wind will blow the fallout into Mother Russia, and the Russians will suffer more than the Ukrainians.
ReplyDeleteBut if it does happen, as Fred Thompson said in The Hunt for Red October: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.