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My plans for a scientific salvation

In the future, a few survivors of nuclear war gather in an underground hideout and desperately wrack their brains, "Is there any way we could have prevented this nuclear war?" They decide that with their engineering and programming skills combined, they might be able to transmit messages to past generations and warn them in an attempt to avoid nuclear war. After years of putting on protective suits, crawling out of the bunker, and spending tedious hours sifting through rubble, the small group of survivors gathers enough supplies to create an artificial intelligence that can transmit messages to the past. They name this robot God because of legends they heard as children about a man named God who used to send messages of peace to humankind.  They set up streams of automated messages and also write hundreds of personalized messages constantly in the hopes that someone, anyone in the past will listen and take their advice. After sending billions of messages per day for a month