Most of us in Anchorage live within 10 miles of JBER military base, which is also true for most living in Eagle River.
MY NOTES:
Bill Clinton’s PDD-60 is still in effect, which eliminated “launch on first warning,” to instead absorb a first strike, to then launch with what?
As a token of good will, we’ve agreed to keep half of our one-dozen fleet nuclear subs in port at all times, so they can be easily taken out.
For those who live within 10 miles of a military base, blast protection would be needed. He recommends moving instead.
Some kind of fallout shelter is needed if downwind from a nuclear blast, even 600 miles away:
Joel is speaking to Mormons, of whom most probably live in Salt Lake City. He first says, for those living in Utah County (south of SLC), after a nuke is launched above Hill Air Force base (north of SLC), about a 60 mile distance, some kind of fallout shelter will be needed, if they’re downwind. Later, he says if the wind is coming from a different direction, they’ll still need a fallout shelter for the nukes that hit San Diego, Nellis Air Force Base or Area 51. San Diego is 600 air miles from Salt Lake City.
Apparently, a fallout shelter needs to also be substantial, because he says it costs one third the price of a blast protected shelter.
“Only Russia and China can throw an EMP strike [that would take down the entire US power grid], because it takes at least 2 or 3 super-EMP weapons, and it takes about 8 or 9 regular EMP weapons exploded at high altitudes.”
Cars will likely be disabled if they’re within a 300 mile circle under the explosion, so within a 150 mile radius from the explosion. Outside of that, cars “may shut down but will restart, hopefully.”
“There will be famine for at least a year, because the United States does not stockpile any of the [house sized] transformers…. They’re made in China.”
“Without any electricity, there will be massive pillaging.”