• Surviving the Day After • NBC • Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Civil Defense •
The message beyond "Surviving the Day After" is that, paradoxically, nothing short of a full scale nuclear holocaust can save man. It is a matter of simple logic: the earth can survive without man, man cannot survive without the earth. We have reached a point of no-return in trashing the planet and nothing, short of going back to a sort of pre-industrial-revolution civilization within the immediate future can reverse this process. Reasonably we would preferably forsake our existence here-and-now rather than surviving a nuclear nightmare: should that moment come, given a chance, we will have to get to terms with our innate survival instinct and regret that we did not give due consideration to the dark clouds heaping up on our civilization's horizon. People of good will and understanding abound but they have their hands tied, nothing is in their power but to send out a warning message. In a world with so many blind and selfish idiots holding the reins of power and economy doom upon mankind appears inescapable, a sort of doom which may show up, in the long term, as a blessing in disguise.