Triggering, but would we get warning if there was a Nuclear attack?

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Or would we not?

I thought there was about 5-6 minutes I'm sure I read somewhere, from when officials know it'll happen to when it hits

Would we be warned via breaking news? Or would everyone just lose control, including news reporters, and make a run for it in blind panic?

Always wondered. Completely hypothetical obviously as almost 0 change of ever happening

I don't think a warning would help much. No much time to do anything other than run about like a headless chicken.

Oh I don't know. Reckon I could do a bit of damage to a couple of bottles of whiskey and kiss my arse goodbye mildly happy.

My mother's house, on the Swiss/German border, has a nuclear shelter. She stores lots of wine and canned food in there with a couple of big freezers and a washer/dryer. So we'd come out pissed, well fed and with clean clothes 😂

Before the USA attacked Japan with nuclear weapons in 1945, they airdropped leaflets telling people that a number of cities might be destroyed completely by their new bombs in the next few days. Supposedly a "humanitarian policy" but given that they named I think 13 cities as potential targets, many people didn't/couldn't just evacuate.

ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaflets/

The citizens of Hiroshima got air raid warnings on the day, after American planes were spotted. However the last one was cleared at 7.30am and the atomic bomb hit around 8am so many people were going about their day.

A few people who were at ground zero actually survived and lived to old age, as they were in concrete basements at the time.

I think people overestimate how quickly nuclear bombs kill. At ground zero almost everything is vaporised, and the firestorms burn for a few kilometres around. Obvs it depends on the size of the bomb. Further away, there are chances of survival and escaping injury, if you get inside fast enough.

So I don't see the point of just giving up, or not bothering to try to shelter children - I would feel very bad if I could have stopped myself or others from dying slowly of radiation sickness after the event.

I think it'd be an extremely bleak future for any woman that survived the aftermath of a nuclear war, tbh.

Best pray it doesn't happen.

We're planning on driving towards the light ( nearest one for us Sellafield). Quick vapourisation here too please. I'd rather not survive.

I actually think there'd be more huddling in houses like Pompeii than people driving in a blind panic to who knows where.

Anyway as others have said it's not like we can do anything about it if it happens.

Watch this song called ‘Dancing with tears in my eyes’ by Ultravox - it sums a lot up about nuclear war and always makes me emotional. One of the best songs of all time on my opinion

Here you go

How would you do that though? No trains, no cars, they won’t work after the bombs go off. Other ways to end your life can be as painful as radiation sickness if you fail and there is nobody to to treat you.

Threads.

My mother decided it was important for me to watch aged 8.
It's never left me.

Thankfully there will be no nuclear war, as nobody wants to play my dick is bigger than yours on that front .

Putin's own will take him out before he could do that. His advisors, successors and whomever don't want to die, or see their families die.

Putin may want to go out with a bang. He will, by his closest aide with a bullet in the head

Not sure about that.

Plenty of plastic bags about. For putting over your head.

Hanging?

Enola Gay might be more appropriate 🙄

Not a nice way to go and non-professional hangmen often fail to knot the rope properly.

A warning would be pointless. I wouldn't want to spend my last few minutes panicking about my imminent death anyway!

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I really hope if it ever happens it lands in my back garden. You'd be vaporiser faster than the message that you were being vaporised could reach your brain and quite literally know nothing about it.

If I wasn't so fortunate in 6 minutes I could get my emergency supplies into a room, and barricade it against fallout, if I was at home of course. Then it would be radiation sickness, a nuclear winter and starvation to look forward to.

“A friend, who worked in civil defence told us, it’s assumed every major city would be hit, and the only safe place is somewhere in Wales”

I’m alright then 🤗😂

I do have a vaguely similar experience. We moved to a country which was long out of war (less than a year in fact). I think it was a Saturday as we were at home watching CNN and the BBC World Service who informed us that there was 30000 tanks crossing the border.

My mother was home with a toddler, 9 yr old and me a young teen. My stepdad was away in a neighbouring country working. My stepdad had been captured by the invaders in the last invasion (he had escaped) so it felt like a very real threat.

We lived on a compound where everyone knew everyone and Americans started knocking on our door checking we had supplies and were armed (we weren't armed). They started to patrol the compound and lock it down as much as possible. We carried on watching the news. Cnn were hyping it up, the BBC were very calm about it. My stepdad rang the British embassy who told him it would blow over and to tell us to sit tight.

My mam panicked and packed us kids, our maid and the budgie in the truck and set off driving. I remember her faxing various people. We got to the border and flew home.

We returned a few weeks later when it had blown over.

I don't remember being scared. I found it very exciting at the time.

I think people overestimate how quickly nuclear bombs kill

This is my concern. What if it didn't kill you.
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I read 'When the Wind Blows' and decided that I'd rather go immediately tbh. Plus there's nowhere in my house that could be a shelter (with double interior walls, as outlined in Jim's leaflet).

I think I'd crank up and go and stand outside:

"The final story is one of me,
Who with four minutes left has used up three,
I think of you, I think of me,
Then I think of nothing, it's the end you see..."

Yes, this is what I concluded as a teenager in the 1970s.

Just offering suggestions. In the face of my innards being burned from the inside out by a plutonium uranium mix and watching my kids bleed from their eyes, I'll take the plastic bag.

Morning!

Aargh it's snowing! Slightly. We can't even cope with an inch of snow as a country.
I need to go to the shops now.

I'll probably break my leg 🤣

But you wouldn't just be vaporised like you're hot water. It would hurt and you would feel something, nothing is that 'instant'

That's so lovely. I hope my kids ' teachers will do the same. DD loves it when they get the toys out. 💜

If you were close enough it would be so quick that you would be gone before the pain signal even reached your brain.

There was an air raid siren at my primary school in Coventry that was set off accidentally once in the early 80s, wonder if it was the same one? I think that was only removed really recently too.