Which tropical island would you want to spend the last days of the

[Eliot Rosewater]

human race on?

I like some of the cay's in the Caribbean.

Would the nuclear cloud stay away long enough so you could live a few years?

[FrankfurtCat]

1. Good question!

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Either Bora Bora, Maui, or Hawaii, the Kona side.
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[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Love Maui and Kauai but havent been to Tahiti yet.

[FrankfurtCat]

6. I haven't been to Tahiti yet, either...

...I've wanted to go there since I was a teen-ager. It is on my Bucket List!
I want to live on any of the Hawaiian Islands someday-my end of life wish.

[DFW]

3. The Big Island

Waikoloa area.

[trof]

4. Depends on where the bombs went off.

But anyway, with enough ready money, Bermuda.

[dhill926]

5. well...

since I've only been to Aruba, Puerto Rico and Kauai, one of those will do. Hell, even without the end of the human race looming they would do...

[FrankfurtCat]

7. Exactly!

[hunter]

8. The southern hemisphere is a better bet if most of the nukes are lit off in the northern hemisphere.

So long as you're being practical.

[csziggy]

16. In college some of us figured New Zealand would be the place to be

Way away from everywhere, small enough to not be much of a target, and a really pretty place to live out our lives. That was in the early 1970s when a bunch of us were sitting around discussing the likelihood of nuclear war and winter.

[elleng]

18. An Australian friend of mine recently moved there,

to retire. She's having a fine time!

[edhopper]

9. Maui

no question.

[mainstreetonce]

10. Bonaire

Bon Bini

[mnhtnbb]

27. I tried to get my husband to buy a place on Bonaire two summers ago

but he wouldn't do it. We have friends who live there most of the year--and have for 20+ years.
Not a gorgeous island, but the best diving anywhere.

[angstlessk]

11. I have lived from New England to Florida, From Virginia to California

but never been out of the US except for a visit to Mexico from San Diego...

I did live for a moment (6 months or so) in the Outter Banks of NC, and found them to be a bit restricting.

[Generic Brad]

12. Kauai

I love it so much there that I visited three times last year. If only my wife felt the same way. She suddenly has the urge to explore the middle of the country non-stop.

[mnhtnbb]

28. I told my husband last spring if Trump won he should expect

I'd want to be on a plane soon after the election to look at moving to Kauai. I had the travel plans all set up
to go for the first week in December when I realized that he'd never do it--for the same reason he wouldn't buy
a place on Bonaire when we looked in the summer of 2014--and so gave up.

Interestingly, someone said to me not long ago that if the nukes start flying, the Hawaiian islands would probably be a first target
because of their importance to the Pacific Fleet.

[rug]

13. Tristan da Cunha

[MuseRider]

14. Tortola BVI

Great people, beautiful surroundings, fun spot with absolutely terrific diving. My home away from home that I have not seen for over 10 years

[True Dough]

15. Damn! I want to get to the Seychelles

Before the last days of the human race, or before they are submerged due to climate change.

[Tikki]

17. Santa Catalina Island...it's sort of tropical in the Summer.

It's got palm trees and all....and some really nice people live there.


Tikki

[HipChick]

19. I just spent a month on the Island of St. Lucia...

Seriously do not want to think about being back in the cold,snow,ice..

[Worried senior]

21. My granddaughter

got married there, loved it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Zug Island, a perfect post-apocalyptic locale

[Coventina]

22. Another vote for the Big Island, Hawai'i

[Eliot Rosewater]

23. Never been, should go now...time is running out.

[Coventina]

24. You should. It's lovely.

[FrankfurtCat]

25. The Big Island has more climate zones for its small area than any other place on Earth.

Is is fascinating and incredible!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/big-island-climate-zones_n_6866828.html

[beaglelover]

26. St. Croix

We go every year. So peaceful and beautiful.

[Feeling the Bern]

29. Either Phuket island, Palawan or Jeju in Korea. Been to all three, love them all

Hainan would be close on the list too.

[mainer]

30. Palau. One of the most beautiful places on earth

And probably far from any nuclear explosion. I want to go back there.

http://pristineparadisepalau.com

[LWolf]

31. None of them.

I don't like the tropics.

Maybe Whidbey Island in the PNW.

[NNadir]

32. As I know quite a bit about nuclear weapons, my suggestion is this...

...if you have 15 minutes and live close to a potential ground zero, say a military air base or the center of a major city, get as quickly as you can to ground zero, take all your clothes off, and hope against hope that you're vaporized.

You do not want to survive a world wide nuclear war.

We need to dismantle the world's nuclear weapons, and utilize the fissionable materials in them to address climate change.

There is no reason to have them, other than a collective wish for suicide.

Further, we need to denature the world's weapons grade plutonium to make it difficult to remake nuclear weapons from still available grades of plutonium. (I discussed this here: On Plutonium, Nuclear War, and Nuclear Peace)

I'm sorry if I got too serious in the lounge, but total nuclear war is not survivable, and thus not a joke.

[Eliot Rosewater]

33. I fully expect Donald to get us all killed, seriously.

[NNadir]

35. He's an idiot, but I don't think he's a suicidal idiot. A nuclear war would mess up his golf...

...courses, as well as his little love nest with his boy friend and lover Vladmir.



I don't expect any lover's quarrels between those two to lead to nuclear war.

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. Not as combatants, they will join forces to stop the oil flow in the ME so

Russia's oil is worth more, which will lead to war for certain but then who knows what China or Pakistan or whoever does.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. Bora Bora. Sitting at the bar in Bloody Mary's.

[Syndrome]

37. Atlantis

oh wait, the climate there is not really tropical.

[kwassa]

38. Rhode Island

My cottage.