Heard in Dreams, Spoken in Nightmares: A Nuclear War TL

loughery111

Banned
For now it’s only those weapons that are keeping them in the big leagues.

Gotta disagree with this statement; even with the US as horrifyingly damaged as it is, every other former power in the "big leagues" has been shot in the head. The closest thing to a rival that America has left come in the form of Brazil and the PRC, and I would imagine the PRC got whacked preemptively (and hard) by the Soviets in the expectation that they'd roll across the border the second the USSR isn't glowing and green.
 
XII
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“Can you tell us, as a doctor, what kind of procedures you performed upon the 119 ‘victims’”

“I was in a ward reserved for the most critical patients. I started out doing everything I could for anyone that came into the ward. After about twelve hours of this I was starting to get overwhelmed, apparently a bomb had gone off quite nearby, and I was doubting my ability to help most of them.

For the most badly wounded, and there was a great many of them, I stopped trying to help them. Leaving them until they died. Eventually the screaming became unbearable and I began dividing the patients into two groups, those that would survive with help, and those that would not survive no matter what. For the second group I would administer an anesthetic that would put them to a permanent ‘sleep’”

“You killed them”

“Technically yes, I see it more as putting them out of the misery”

“Thank you”

Well that went well.
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AFAIK, the Frogs came up with the concept of triage during the First Great Mistake and it's been used in emergency treatment facilities ever since:

A: Those who won't die without immediate treatment
B: Those who will die unless they're treated immediately
C: Those who are going to die no matter what

The patients in group B get treatment, groups A and C are made comfortable. I don't think the Outlaw would be tried under the circumstances.

Just my two zorkmids' worth
 
I must subscribe.

The first post seems well-written and touches on one of several subjects that make me respond in a manner that by comparison has Pavlov's dogs resemble stoned teenagers.

Nuclear War

Drakians

and um

Drakians and Nuclear War

and anything touching on Richard Nixon


Edit:
And now I've read the whole thing...

keen
 
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