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

How would any of that be possible?

So much must depend on who you were with, think if your whole family were with you, say at Christmas or whenever, it would be strangely easier. Hope you'd die immediately, no way would I want to survive a nuclear bomb

there’s a film where everyone gets a pill, maybe we’ll get that.

If you were in the hot zone then it would be done in a split second. If there was advance warning but not possible to flee to a safe distance then I think I'd feed myself and the family a hearty portion of sleeping tablets and go to bed.

Ooo what film? Sounds sensible actually

But I don't see how the government could distribute it without major issues. For example, what if it never actually happened but people decided to take it anyway before knowing it was actually happening?

Maybe, I live pretty close to the edge of town and there are at least 8 routes out I can think of, so I reckon I could get out. In reality, if I actually thought we were getting close to the likelihood of imminent nuclear war I would have bugged out to the countryside before we got notification we were being nuked, so it would have to have come as a surprise.

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Most people would probably try and do whatever it takes to survive, the majority of people in awful war situations do that.
if you’re in the direct area being hit, nothing you can really do but for those outside of it, most people would probably try and just hunker in.

People obviously survived ww1 and ww2, so I’d try to survive. I’m not sure how and I’m not sure if it would even work, and weirdly I often think I don’t see the point in living, but when I think of myself in this situation I panic and think about how I want to be with my parents, my boyfriend and his family when it happens

We had this conversation in A Level RE when I was in Lower Sixth. All the kids bar me said if it was a 'five minute warning' scenario, they would want to have sex. (we were all geeky virgins) I was horrified at the thought - not of the nuclear bomb - but of the thought of a load of 17 year olds frantically stuffing body parts into each other.

What do you think would be unlikely? The amount of warning, getting out of town?

Water wise, you wouldn't lose water supplies until the power stations ran down, but anything after the bomb hit would be contaminated. Getting stuck on the roads would definitely be a risk for sure, but it gets very rural very fast where I am.

I keep all my food supplies in boxes anyway as my kitchen is tiny so I can't fit anything in there. Same for meds, they all live in a plastic box.

Like obviously there is a good chance it wouldn't work but if I wasn't going to be killed instantly I would be doing my utmost not to die in a really unpleasant way.

I think the human desire to survive is stronger than we expect so I don’t think I would be giving up as easily as all that; even if I was so close to the likely blast it was probably hopeless I would still be gathering emergency supplies and heading to the cellar while frantically telling my dses everything I knew about radiation and despairing of the fact dd would be off somewhere and not answering texts.
Parents are at the other end of the country so not a lot to be done about them.

All of it, really.

I think if we were warned, it would five minutes at most, but in all likelihood we'd get told nothing to stop everyone panicking.

I just can't see a scenario where you had 45 minutes to load the car and take a nice drive out into the countryside. It would all be absolute mayhem.

But there wasn't nukes in those wars

That's not remotely comparable to nuclear war, though, is it?

I once read that you either definitely do or definitely do not get in a fridge. I can't remember which. So I'd probably hop around in front of the fridge trying to remember until I was dissipated to smithereens.

We are an hour from London so likely out of immediate flash zone and fall out of that was the target. We'd shove everyone in the car and head north to family in Yorkshire and see what happens.

Radiation poisoning is necessarily a death sentence. Wasn't there the group of men who went into chynoble after the explosion in radiation so high that their torches shopped working. Most of them lived long lives. I would be tempted to see how things went band wouldn't rush to end my own family 😔.

I mean I did literally say "it depends how much warning we would get" and then outline different plans for different amounts of warning. The ones where I have a lower likelihood of radiation sickness and a terrible death being higher up my priority list and preference list!

I'd neck all the alcohol I could get my hands on and hope I've either passed out or died of alcohol poisoning when the bombs dropped.

I live within a 20 mile radius of 3 main targets (2 military and 1 large city), so whichever direction I choose to drive to escape I'll not have time to get away.

Depends how close you are and how big the bomb is. In the 70s my council helpfully gave every household a leaflet explaining what would happen at different radiuses. I’ll try and find it.

Born in the very early 1970s, I grew up with this possibility. We had drills at school. I lived near a large maritime port and nowadays live not far from London, areas that would be targets so I wouldn’t know an awful lot about it if it did happen. Hearing loud military aircraft when not expected always scares me, though.

I do not believe that another atomic or nuclear bomb will ever be dropped, though.

Ummmm Hiroshima and Nagasaki......

I live about 55 miles from London but only 2 minutes from a small RAF setting/base

Is that far away from immediate death?

Havung watched Threads ,many years agio
I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear fallout hopefully it would be over quickly
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I think there are people not far from the Chernobyl site that never evacuated at all and have not been affected by the fall out. I’ll try to find a link.