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How long would civilization last after a nuclear launch?

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• The ever-present threat of nuclear war, plus a growing terrorist specter
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‘NUCLEAR LAUNCH ALERT’

By the time you reach the end of this sentence, underground government computers will have identified the Pentagon as the target of a North Korean nuclear attack if Kim Jong Un’s regime launched missiles our way when you began reading.