Page 9 | Triggering, but would we get warning if there was a Nuclear attack?

shineanight · 2023-03-09T07:19:31+00:00

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

Cornettoninja · 10/03/2023 08:28

Surplus2requirements · 09/03/2023 14:07

I'm not sure I believe half of the "whatever, lol" posts. I suspect they were far less cool than they're saying.

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I suspect it’s not so much ‘whatever lol’ as much as inability to comprehend the information they had in such a short space of time. It would be incredibly surreal.

Mummyratbag · 10/03/2023 11:28

I lived through the 80s thinking we were all going to die. I had a short panic a year ago when Putin triggered long buried memories, but I honestly don't think it will happen. We were brought up to think that Russians all wanted us dead, but we owe our lives to Stanislav Petrov.

We live in Cornwall - I have looked at maps we are too far from Plymouth to be oliberated. I think my biggest worry would be being away from my kids. @NotQuiteUsual brought tears to my eyes! I could probably get to youngest's school, but not the oldest's. That said when their school had a lockdown (intruder) he was busy messaging me that I had forgotten his Kitkat so his priorities would be a food source not me comforting him. My parents wouldn't know as they turn their phones off to preserve the battery 🙄

XenoBitch · 10/03/2023 20:23

Zuffe · 10/03/2023 03:31

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.

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There are ways that are near enough instant that you can do at home. Obviously discussing them would break MN talk guidelines, and I don't think it is helpful to do so anyway.

MAD would mean the whole planet would be an awful mess anyway. I am not sure why anyone would want to live through that. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima were tiny in comparison to the ones that exist now.
But then considering how some people enjoyed the lockdowns, there are probably those who would relish the bonding experience that living in the cupboard under the stairs for 2 weeks would bring.

longtompot · 12/03/2023 11:55

User129867588 · 10/03/2023 00:25

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

I never knew what this song was about, and would not have known it was about a nuclear war. Just read the lyrics and it really is. I always associate Enola Gay as the nuclear war song and that doesn't sound like it is either.

bringincrazyback · 12/03/2023 12:10

CarrieSmisher · 09/03/2023 07:35

6 minutes isn't enough time for the obligatory looting of tv's and setting fire to stuff which is what we'd obviously all need to do whilst we panic.

In all seriousness, from my 1980's education, we just need to hide under a mattress with some canned goods and we'll be fine to survive the initial blast. Unfortunately the fallout will get us so I'd advise not using the lift saving mattress as a quick death is probably kinder.

OMG I know 😁The fact that we all believed if we took our doors off their hinges, leant them against the wall and crawled under them we'd be fine. 😁

CrapBucket · 12/03/2023 14:25

Knowing my luck I'd phone my secret crush and leave a message professing my love, then we'd all fucking survive and I'd die of embarrassment instead.

Port1aCastis · 12/03/2023 17:02

CrapBucket · 12/03/2023 14:25

Knowing my luck I'd phone my secret crush and leave a message professing my love, then we'd all fucking survive and I'd die of embarrassment instead.

😀😀😀😀😀😀

XenoBitch · 12/03/2023 19:33

longtompot · 12/03/2023 11:55

I never knew what this song was about, and would not have known it was about a nuclear war. Just read the lyrics and it really is. I always associate Enola Gay as the nuclear war song and that doesn't sound like it is either.

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The video is about a power plant melting down though, not a nuclear bomb.

My dad used to play this all the time when I was growing up. The very end of the video, when the film is melting, always freaked me out.

Isthisabitweird · 12/03/2023 20:06

When I was a teenager I was petrified of nuclear war and used to cry myself to sleep with fear over it.

when the Ukraine war started it fed directly into my deepest fears and if I think about it for too long makes me feel sick with worry. My biggest fear is not being able to get to my children.

So for people joking about it being triggering. I think it is triggering it’s the blind god what do I do panic. The people in Ukraine are living with that level of fear every single day.

DogInATent · 12/03/2023 20:28

longtompot · 12/03/2023 11:55

I never knew what this song was about, and would not have known it was about a nuclear war. Just read the lyrics and it really is. I always associate Enola Gay as the nuclear war song and that doesn't sound like it is either.

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The title of the song Enola Gay should be a clue about the subject!

Fatmamslim · 12/03/2023 20:40

NotQuiteUsual · 09/03/2023 09:37

I have spent a bit of time thinking about it. I'd close the blinds in the classroom. Get the biscuits and juice out. Let the kids mix the playdough up and let them use the messy stuff in the home corner for once. Indulge the kids that still like hugs and being carried. Just have a few lovely and joyful minutes with them. I think that's most school staffs plan. I hope my kids teachers would do the same!

When I read the title "triggering" I couldn't understand why.

Well fuck me this got me good.

longtompot · 12/03/2023 23:33

DogInATent · 12/03/2023 20:28

The title of the song Enola Gay should be a clue about the subject!

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I know, I said I associate it with being a nuclear war song. It's just I never knew the Ultravox one was

Snowtrails · 23/04/2023 15:05

Why was the voice American?

DogInATent · 23/04/2023 19:41

Snowtrails · 23/04/2023 15:05

Why was the voice American?

The choice of voice used to read out text messages is your choice in your phone settings. It was not a voice message that was sent.

(for those that received it, I'm on Three and didn't - either Three member rewards incudes an automatic ticket for the arks, or we're not amongst the chosen to be alerted..)

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tuvamoodyson · 07/02/2024 15:21

Strongboat · 09/03/2023 08:07

Wasn't it a four minute warning? Or am I misremembering?

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yes…it was a four minute warning

Flapjacker48 · 07/02/2024 15:26

With modern systems the UK would get maybe upto 10 minutes of an impending strike by ballistic nuclear weapons.

The main "task" for the the authorities would be to get our own missiles away before the control systems to do so are destroyed (these would be the number 1 targets of incoming missiles).

I think any hope of emergency text alerts or tv/radio announcements is for the the birds.

Obvioulsy an out of the blue nuclear attack on the UK is vanishingly unlikely.

Flapjacker48 · 07/02/2024 15:30

@Ifailed There have been no sirens since 1991. The only examples that remained were ones that were re-purposed for flood warnings and ones relating to an accident at a specific defence or industrial site.

AffIt · 07/02/2024 15:38

I live about 30 miles from Faslane, so I'd be a shadow in the ground. An announcement wouldn't make any difference to the outcome.