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

I'd be more concerned about societal and financial breakdown if the Internet cables were cut TBH

Cash is king, always store some provisions and dont be a slave to the screen 😄

cash is only king as long as the economy is intact, once that fails then its a barter economy with different goods etc

With 10,000 'laughing' reactions

@WinterMorn because at some point, you have to trust someone.... I couldn’t live my life that way. It must be exhausting.

At the risk of being accused by you of "keeping on", aren't these statements incongruous with your belief that OP is a bad actor with malign intent?!

As the OP didn’t make the statements I was responding to, I am not sure what you are talking about? The ‘Trust’ poster was coming from a totally different angle.

You immediately distrusted the OP's intentions enough to report her but apparently eternal distrust is exhausting.

Never mind.

Not sure if I've missed it being mentioned but there is a book called 'On the beaches' by Nevil Shute that is about the aftermath of a nuclear event. It's a little old now, but I found it rather interesting, though also quite sad.

Sorry I mean 'On the beach' not 'beaches'.

This actually happened in our town once (not actually nuked, but we really believed we were about to be).

It was September 1988 and we still had an old siren in a road close by. It was never used for anything, it was a relic

One morning the siren went off. My sister went outside to find the cats, mum phoned the police and I turned the TV up as loud as it would go, as the news was on and I imagined they were about to tell us that we had three minutes to live.

I couldn't hear it, the siren was loud, and our immediate neighbours were in their gardens screaming.

I went out to the front (we lived on a main road), to see the workers at the car showroom across the road, had all assembled on the pavement, looking confused. People had stopped their cars and looked puzzled and shocked.

It was turned off shortly after and the police told mum it was set off by accident.

Whilst rushing out the front I hurt my ankle, and unbeknown to me, I had fractured it, but was able to walk whilst I thought an attack was imminent (the next year my other leg was badly broken and I wasn't able to ambulate at all).

Strangely having sex was furthest from my mine. I think I wanted to be with people.

The siren was dismantled soon after.

As far as I am aware, the ‘trust’ OP didn’t start multiple threads on the same subject. I am not the only person who found it strange. Stop trying to conflate two entirely separate situations.

Exactly summed up in one go, and to be technical about the wording the ops ops, have been differently worded for different points of view, so from a literal view point they are on different aspects of a similar topic.

As before, I am not the only one who found this odd.

I found it odd too.

It is a good point about having some ready cash…..I don’t mean in case of a civil war but more for cyber attacks. I have NO cash so if the banking system fails I will be a bit fucked. Might squirrel £100 in notes somewhere.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/preppers/4995326-prepping-for-nuclear-attack

Wide spread panic, looting of supermarkets.

Yes @Northernsouloldies, though some donuts would probably be looting Curry's for the latest flat screen TV instead.