How do you think people would react if we were being nuked?

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I would predictably be in a corner scared senseless, to anyone including my DC

I would be googling ways to easily and quickly end my life instead of being fried to death by fire or a building collapsing on me

What do you think you would do? How do you think the public would react if we got told 'a nuclear bomb is heading our way, this is goodbye'. Not even sure who would be manning these radio stations etc to even talk about it so it would be eerie and strange as no radio outlet

I ask because I stumbled across Jim Carey's book and he said in an interview with Graham Norton that was a screenshot of his face when his sister, I think, told him a bomb was coming in Hawaii and this was it.

He said he felt strangely calm. People on Reddit who claim to have been there when they got the warning say all different things

Surprisingly there isn't a collective answer which sort of surprises me. I thought human nature would largely act similarly

The picture for reference

I would be googling ways to easily and quickly end my life instead of being fried to death by fire or a building collapsing on me.

I agree. I would march towards the mushroom cloud - I have no desire to survive a nuclear bomb.

Pretty sure where I live they’d be on Facebook saying “anyone know what that blinding flash in the sky was just now??!! Pls consider dog owners when letting off fireworks!”

@Barbadossunset I don't think I could force myself to run towards the danger the inevitable

So I would be looking for ways to end it at home I'd say. The least painful way possible

Luckily I'm no longer a nurse no chance of me collecting morphine for it all, damn it!

Most people would be stunned into inaction, I suspect, and if there was time would start moving towards loved ones

I have ADHD and have a big executive functioning/demand avoidance issue

I wonder if I would be stunned into no action at all, or get to work as I seem to work best under high pressure situations

If I was close to my kids / DH / parents I'd be making every effort to get to them ASAP.

I'm currently on a train and miles away though so in that case I think I'd just gather as many humans together as possible and try to comfort / hug as many people as possible.

I think I’d be weirdly calm. I panic a lot more about things that aren’t happening.

Id probably give up on the diet

In my local Facebook group I think they'd all be saying the council really should have stopped this nuclear war and saying that this never happened before the new housing estate was built.

I don't think you'd have time to do much of anything.

Probably with one blink and then game over. Considering Faslane is close to me I wouldn't have time to think about it, thank fuck.

would they have time to react mid nuke?!

I guess if I was teaching, I would probably carry on teaching

Even a few minutes is a long time if you know you're gonna die

Depends how far away you are from impact.
If close, immediate death so I'd just try to find my loved ones.
If within fallout zone, find a concrete building or underground and take essentials with me (ie my dogs).
If outside of fallout zone, start collecting water and food because we're going to need it.

Assuming there was enough notice, say my goodbyes... grab some sleeping pills... Enough to knock me out.... And sleep through the dead and destruction. Iwouldn't want to survive in a post nuclear world.

Depends how much warning I got.

I'm outside the likely "instant death" type area if they're aiming at London so if I had 30-40 mins I would grab my box of medicines and drive out to my parents who are in the countryside.

They're fairly well set up: generator, oil heating, gas cooker. Fully interior room you could shelter in for a few days. If you could get enough water stored it would be about as okay as you could manage.

I think instant death would be preferable but I don't think that would be likely where I am. So given that, taking the best action I could do avoid radiation poisoning would be my preference.

If I had longer I'd take any excess food I could as well, plus other things that are more useful longer term - folding saw, sleeping bags etc.

If I had less time, I would fill the bath and any available container with water, get my food stores out the loft and into the house to prevent contamination and hunker down in a corner of the living room that I could blockade from the outside world.

Fuck knows if it would work or not but better that having your own skin peel off or whatever.

I read that the missiles are much smaller these days as the tech means they can be specifically targeted at key infrastructure/military bases etc. so a lot less risky for majority of country. I’d run round the corner to a friend’s house and join her in the wine cellar.

I would try to be very practical and start taking the doors off and measuring 60 degrees on a piece of card, like the couple in When the Wind Blows.

The one just landed in Suffolk for us to store is 3 times the strength as the bomb that landed in Japan in 1945

I'm outside the likely "instant death" type area if they're aiming at London so if I had 30-40 mins I would grab my box of medicines and drive out to my parents who are in the countryside.

wouldn’t the roads be jam packed though?

I strongly suspect my new workplace has a secret bunker so maybe I'd get to go in there.
.if not, I'd run down to the school to get my kids, or if we were all at home we'd all get into bed together for a cuddle.
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Whatever you did would be pretty pointless, really.

I don't think we'll be given a warning. It would cause too much chaos.