A small town may have to worry about a fallout plume traveling some distance—any big cities due west of you? Also, depending upon the target, it’s quite possible your lifestyle could be affected, eg, nuking the Port of Los Angeles, the largest port in the U.S, with a 10 kiloton bomb—this is from a study by the Rand Corp.—would also take out the Port of Long Beach, which would create supply disruptions across the country. Also, what if people decided to flee cities—in fear of more nukes–and move to small towns? If you have money in the stock market, I don’t want to think about the market pricing in a nuke attack.

I think “Alas, Babylon” was recommended to me years ago, pre-amazon.com days, but I’m not a big fiction reader. Given its sales rank (5,000-ish when I looked) on a book published over 30 years ago, it’s obviously a major book and I’ve added it to my amazon buy list. Thanks.