Are you worried this is the start of ww3 and nukes will be used ?

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

Or do you think realistically no one will start to use Nuclear weapons

What's making you ask this now, rather than around a month ago when everyone else was panicking?

I think it's an excuse for NATO to not get directly involved. The American electorate doesn't want its military involved in yet another war, one which is very far away, with no exit plan.

Not remotely worried

Yes. Been panicked for a month to the point I can barely function. So many articles saying this is only heading one way. Can't see the point of planning anything for the future, I don't understand why everyone else isn't panicking too.

Not worried about that at all. Very worried about the people of Ukraine and Russia, and the impact of the cost of living crisis.

Not worried about WW3 or nukes. I am terrified about the cost of living increases :( Christmas 2022 is going to suck.

No, I'm not.

But there will be huge changes in geopolitics and our domestic politics over the next five years, inevitably.

Not worried mostly because of one of them does hit the big red button the other countries will retaliate before the missile lands meaning essentially global destruction in minutes.
It's an unlikely senario but if it happens we will probably all just be dead. To be fair an asteroid could hit the planet and elicit the same effect.
I worry more about things that are likely to happen or are currently happening

I refuse to stress about a nuclear war. Nobody wins one and there's nothing you can do about it. It's a waste of energy.

I think it's fairly likely, yes. Trying not to spend time thinking about it, because there's no point, and I don't want my children to think that way. I've always thought that nuclear war would happen at some point - if the weapons exist, someone will inevitably use them at some point. We may well be at that point.

No. Was mildly concerned at first but even then not terribly so. As other posters have said, am more worried about Ukraine, people of Russia and the effects sanctions will have on our own already fucked economy.

Yeah. Both my partner and I agree that we are more worried now than at any time during the cold war.

No.

Those of you who aren't worried - is it because you think it won't happen, or you aren't worried about being snuffed out? This is what I can't get my head round... if someone close to you had say terminal cancer, you would expect to be upset and spend a lot of time talking about how to come to terms with it. Yet the likelihood of this happening to all of us and no-one seems remotely bothered!

My only hope, sometimes, is China. If Russia started using nuclear weapons, would they not intervene because it's not really in their interests all to be wiped out too?

It’s very likely now and I don’t understand why people are saying it isn’t. Self preservation maybe?

Russia have come right out and said it. It’s coming. Maybe not all out apocalypse but ‘tactical’ nukes.

@FraterculaArctica

Yes. Been panicked for a month to the point I can barely function. So many articles saying this is only heading one way. Can't see the point of planning anything for the future, I don't understand why everyone else isn't panicking too.

What's the point of panicking? What difference can it possibly make? If the worst happens then you'll have spent your last time on earth paralysed with fear and enjoying nothing. I'm scared but I just don't think about it and I tell my children not to listen to any fear mongering because it will be fine. I don't know that but I do know I don't want my children to be frightened if their life as they know it is limited.

FraterculaArctica Who are these articles by and what are they saying?

Several linked in the long running thread on the invasion. One in the Guardian today - essentially Nato has no good way to respond to escalation (and see comments on that article).

@FraterculaArctica

Those of you who aren't worried - is it because you think it won't happen, or you aren't worried about being snuffed out? This is what I can't get my head round... if someone close to you had say terminal cancer, you would expect to be upset and spend a lot of time talking about how to come to terms with it. Yet the likelihood of this happening to all of us and no-one seems remotely bothered!

I was really worried when it first started, I've calmed down a lot since then.

Realistically it's not just pushing a red button, there are many things that have to be put in place by many people before the nukes are fired.
That's a lot of people who understand they are killing themselves and their families, and I don't think they will want to do that on putins say so, putins own family are scattered around Europe so he will also be executing his own children.
He doesn't want to die or he would have already done it, so we have to hang onto that.

Also the larges nuke will only wipe out approx 3km radius. So how many nukes are going to need to be fired to wipe out the whole of Europe, USA, Canada and whoever else he deems an enemy? It's just not realistic that everyone in all those countries will die.

And in a worst case scenario, would I rather spend my last time on earth scared and worrying about something beyond my control or would I rather enjoy the time I have with my family. I'm choosing the latter.

@Aimee1987

Not worried mostly because of one of them does hit the big red button the other countries will retaliate before the missile lands meaning essentially global destruction in minutes. It's an unlikely senario but if it happens we will probably all just be dead. To be fair an asteroid could hit the planet and elicit the same effect. I worry more about things that are likely to happen or are currently happening

Ive noticed on here people have really unrealistic ideas of what will happen if someone uses a nuke! Why would they want to destroy the earth and kill themselves?! If they resort to nukes, hundreds and thousands of people will die from impact, radiation etc. but ultimately the majority of Earth will survive an it will just like what happened in Japan.

But you could say the same about anything scary... impending loss of a loved one "What's the point in worrying about it?" Yet no one takes this attitude then.

@FraterculaArctica

Those of you who aren't worried - is it because you think it won't happen, or you aren't worried about being snuffed out? This is what I can't get my head round... if someone close to you had say terminal cancer, you would expect to be upset and spend a lot of time talking about how to come to terms with it. Yet the likelihood of this happening to all of us and no-one seems remotely bothered!

If someone is dying of cancer, you feel sad because you’ll miss them and possibly because they’re suffering. If we all die in a nuclear attack, we’re all gone there’s no one to miss and no one to miss us. I’m not worried because it’s preferable to the miserable existence most of us have got ahead of us.

No, it takes about 5 nuclear bombs for the ensuing nuclear winter to kill all life on earth. DH (climate scientist) tells me it's been well modelled.

@FraterculaArctica

Those of you who aren't worried - is it because you think it won't happen, or you aren't worried about being snuffed out? This is what I can't get my head round... if someone close to you had say terminal cancer, you would expect to be upset and spend a lot of time talking about how to come to terms with it. Yet the likelihood of this happening to all of us and no-one seems remotely bothered!

There is a difference in this senario either you are losing a loved one and will grieve and miss them or your are the one leaving your loved ones behind want to make sure there taken care of. In the nuclear war apocalypse senario theres nothing left no one to grieve anyone. It's just over. There is not much point in worrying about something like this as there is nothing you can do to control it.