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If your US datacenter melts down under a nuclear war, I can guarantee that none of your devs will give a damn about contributing to the code base.

You might want to modify your scenarios.




As someone interested in these scenarios, where could I find out more information about what would happen post-nuclear explosion?


A lot of this is out in the open

There are active simulations going on: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/article.php?n=scientists-cond...

There are preparedness drills: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...

There's plenty of policy analysis: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/social-eco...

Older .mil reports: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA080907

There are entire books taking apart what happens in specific fields: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219154/

Or you could just read disaster porn^W^W post-apocalyptic sci fi.

So, a lot depends on what kinds of info you want to find. But overall, I'd say it's not worth reading, because life's not going to be much fun. Even if you're prepared.


In that event, how much would your "guarantee" be worth? b^)


it depends on your SLA ;)




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