Semi-rural area, yes I am.

Generally, the people with advanced experience in engineering and tech lives in city, and we all know city gonna get fucked in a nuclear exchange

The stuff you'd have to worry about is the flood of refugees, the stability of community supplies and the stuff the city already imports.

Reason I said beefing up security.

I'd actually wager advanced engineering wouldn't really matter for immediate survival.

Checkpoints, etc, etc...

Not really, america is a net export of food

Africa will starve without us

There's stuff stillwater is almost certainly importing. I'm guessing it imports ammunition for example.

Actually Africa will probably be fine.

That is why I said Ammunition bench.

Basically reloading bench.

In a global nuclear exchange Africa would likely inherit the earth.

There's no really valuable targets there (yet) and they'd probably be left alone.

And then they've got the population and resources.

Unless there is a resource war.

Then AFrica would be focal point of conflict.

How much can you salvage on reloading benches though?

Don't you still need slugs and explosive?

Mostly the brass rounds.

I doubt we will have much need for explosives.

Only in the most dire situations.

Would your community accept annexation from the eventual reorganization of the US government?

If I was leader, yes.

@Dusty Morgan When I said explosive I really meant primer for the rounds.

As long as we can dictate our own rules.

That wouldn't be the case.

Oh... primers.

The government would likely be dictatorial or military in nature.

Well that is why I would ask for retired military personal if there is any.

Well for the safety of my people, I would probably surrunder.

You need saltpeter to make more gunpowder

Gunpowder =/= black powder

Military would be strong enough to wipe us out, a small city like Stillater.

Stillwater.

So I would just surrender instead of sending the survivors to death.

I would ask if I could keep leading Stillwater to keep rebuilding.

That's actually the trick isn't it.

I would try to convince them, keeping me in leadership would be benefitial to them.

You would presumably be forging relationships with other surviving cities.

Gunpowder literally is black powder dude. You're thinking of smokeless powder