I've always wondered: What would happen in the case of anuclear explosion hitting my country? 
Worse yet, given the power of nuclear weapons these days,would the bomb even have to detonate anywhere near me? Or could they just plopit off at a 7-11 in Dubai and have it reshape most of the planet?I can imagine that people of importance, "VIPs,"would probably be escorted to a bunker. The president would be safe.High-ranking political figures and those in the popular media would probablyhave some kind of safeguards. Paranoid doomsayers would probably already havebunkers or subterranean lairs prepared.
I wonder, is there anything we can really do once a nuclearbomb has detonated? I mean, the shockwaves would hit us so quickly, it seemslike we might as well just count our blessings and hope for a quickannihilation. I suppose we have things prepared in case of a potential nuclear attack, but what canreally be done once the attack has been carried out? 
And would I want to be the one underground during the wholething? 
If I'm some big shot important person, and I emerge from myprotective bunker, only to find that virtually everything has been reduced to awasteland, am I really thanking my lucky stars that I survived?And what about those who survive, but with radiationpoisoning? And then five years later they birth babies with fish heads andthree arms? 
It's hard to imagine that somebody would be crazy enough toemploy nuclear warfare that could wipe out most the planet. I mean, even ifyou're the meanest, most deranged sunnavabitch, how the hell is destroying everything gonna do anything for you? 
Way to go moron, you've destroyed 99% of the world'sinfrastructure. You've eradicated our natural resources, you've wiped outspecies of animals that you always enjoyed eating. And your only friend, thatloony guy Aljaharda, was reduced to crispy chicken because you just couldn't wait to hit the red detonator.
Nice one, champ. 
Oh no, but that's right, that's right... all you care aboutis the power, the control. You just want to be the one deciding the fate ofothers. Well good goin on that. 
Unfortunately, there are so few people now living on theplanet, your plan to 'control the masses' is equivalent to a teacher running a classof 30.
But stop. What if I'm wrong? What if most of us do survive?What if the government does have underground cities waiting in case of such athreat? What if, in the case of a nuclear threat, large metropolitan areascould be evacuated to underground facilities for protection? I'd imagine itwould get pretty crammed. And there'd probably be a lot of crying babies andhysterical people and lunatics raving how the time has come to "pay forour sins." 
Ya know what, just keep me on the outside. Not sure if Icould deal with that...
Admittedly, I know next to nothing of nuclear/thermonuclearweaponry, aside from what I've learned playing in the post-apocalyptic worldsof the videogames. 
But something tells me the real thing would be just a taddifferent...