One way to cope is to understand what to do if the worse does happen.
http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p904.htm is a decent place to start for that. It’s important to understand that nuclear war is survivable depending on where you live and what you do to prepare for it.
I realize this is still depressing as hell, but it’s at least information you can use to more accurately take action.
It may also be worth reading up on what it means when Russia puts their nuclear weapons on high alert. My understanding is that there’s still quite a bit of escalation that would have to happen before we’d find ourselves in a nuclear war [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-put-russias-nuclear...].
http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p904.htm is a decent place to start for that. It’s important to understand that nuclear war is survivable depending on where you live and what you do to prepare for it.
You can run simulations at https://alexwellerstein.com/projects/nukemap/ to get an understanding of the risk for the area you live.
I realize this is still depressing as hell, but it’s at least information you can use to more accurately take action.
It may also be worth reading up on what it means when Russia puts their nuclear weapons on high alert. My understanding is that there’s still quite a bit of escalation that would have to happen before we’d find ourselves in a nuclear war [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-put-russias-nuclear...].