Where you can survive a nuclear war - there are only two places

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen named Australia and New Zealand as the most likely refuges in the event of a full-scale nuclear war during a podcast interview. According to her, these countries have agricultural resources and are remote from the main centers of conflict.

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, in a conversation with podcast host Steven Bartlett, named Australia and New Zealand as the two places on Earth with the greatest chances of surviving the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war. According to her, these countries possess significant agricultural resources and are located far from the main centers of potential conflict — the US, Russia, and China. Geographic isolation, separated by oceans, could reduce the impact of radioactive fallout. Jacobsen described a nuclear winter scenario: massive fires, soot emissions into the stratosphere, sharp cooling, and food shortages. She cited Ukraine and the US state of Iowa as examples that, in the most severe scenario, could face prolonged cooling, making agriculture impossible. According to her estimate, out of about eight billion inhabitants of the planet, around three billion could survive in an extreme scenario. At the same time, Jacobsen emphasized that no place on Earth is completely safe, and this is only a predicted scenario.