Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, if you are looking at a Hiroshima size bomb that explodes in Times Square, for instance, if you are in New Jersey or Brooklyn, you have not had a great day, but you have likely survived.
If you were in the basement or you were in the center of a building, you're
You might be injured for sure, but... You're not going to be vaporized in a moment.
You wouldn't necessarily be vaporized in a moment.
And given the relatively low number of these bombs... Dozens of bombs, not tens of thousands.
Even in the worst case scenario, a sort of all-out strike from the Soviet Union...
You know, most of the country would be untouched by the explosions from that.
There would be fallout and radiation that would spread beyond.
But nuclear war was thought to be a relatively survivable phenomenon.
And so there was this whole elaborate process.
across the U.S.
government of really imagining what post-nuclear war America looked like.
So just to play this out step by step, imagine... It's a hot June day in Austin, Texas.
It's 1960, you're living in Austin, listening to the radio when... Out of nowhere... This is your Austin civil defense director with an urgent message.
And so you run down into the nearest fallout shelter as Austin and a number of other major U.S.
cities are decimated.
And you hunker down.
Until, finally, several weeks later... This is your Austin Civil Defense Director.
And as you crawl out of your shelter and look around, you just see destruction.
You don't recognize Austin.
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