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

@ToBeOrNotToBee yes like I said before. But that poster said 'we survived WWI and WWII' so it was a sensible assumption she meant Europe and not Japan

What a horrible thread

It is. I know. But the thread title makes it glaringly obvious as a pre warning that it won't make for a pleasant read

Here we go

"Civil nuclear defence since 1992 has been devolved to UK local authorities as an addition to their routine emergency planning responsibilities and under direction of the government's Civil Contingencies Secretariat but the four-minute warning air raid alert system no longer operates."

I just found this on Wikipedia so I think it's reasonable to assume that many (if not most) of us wouldn't get any warning. It would be a postcode lottery depending on the protocol of our particular local authority.

I honestly have no idea what I would do except that I would want to be with ds and if we were apart I would be moving towards him as rapidly as possible.

OP, you should be ashamed of yourself for posting this scaremongering nonsense. You already have at least one other thread going about nuclear weapons which makes you look rather suspicious. I am reporting you.

It's general that. The thread titles make it clear it isn't to read if you will find it upsetting

I'd understand more if I was posting a really general title that could mean anything when you read it

If I had time I’d take up smoking and drinking - to combine with the OD I would take.

You are intentionally missing the point

I would hug my children or the people closest to me if the kids aren't around and close my eyes

With MAD and the number of nukes in the world I would expect to hear about it and then be no more. I don’t think I would worry TBH.

My one wish would be to not survive any attack.

Think woman, think! To fridge to not to fridge.

Living on the edge of a signals base I suspect that it might be a target 🤷🏼‍♀️, sod all I can do about that!
I’m 70, can’t be bothered to get het up about the likelihood of nuclear war, I remember the futile information that the government issued in the early 80’s? It included sitting in the under stairs with mattresses propped up around the cupboard and stockpiling cans and jars.
definitely won’t be taking any notice of our county council who are beyond useless.
guess I’m pretty pragmatic about it.

That's a bit OTT. Do you get beside yourself reading and hearing all the 'scaremongering' in the mainstream media?

OP did not invent atomic bombs or the nuclear threat (at least I doubt she did!) She is only asking questions to human beings about the world human beings have created for themselves to live in. That's not unreasonable.

99% of the infrastructure for use in the event of a nuclear attack on the UK was removed after the cold war. There are no "air raid sirens". The only way to warn the population would be the dodgy government text alert thing, which going on the test last year wouldn't work anyway.

Always bearing in mind there was no real plan to protect the population of the UK in the event of a nuclear attack as it was essentially an impossible task. All preparedness was essentially based on continuity of government at some level.

The UK's nuclear defence plan as it stands is essentially to get the nuclear deterrent away from our one submarine at sea before the first missiles hit.

🤣🤣🤣

There was a village where this happened in the eighties. They had a warning signal which went off by mistake.

Apparently, people were surprisingly calm. Some took their washing in and most people went to the pub.

Oh I think it's quite humorous over all, esp the poster who can't remember whether we need to get in the fridge or not, my type of humour

I wouldn’t want a warning I hope they wouldn’t and then people wouldn’t have those few minutes of total panic

why ?

hows this any different than the news ?

plus no one has to read the threads to begin with ?

The part of your brain that exists to keep you alive would click into action and you would fight/ fright or freeze. I don't think any of us knows how we would react unless we were in the situation.

@WinterMorn Who made you today's thread police? Like anything on here, if you are not interested or think it's rubbish don't read it.

Didn't realise the govt issued this just last Nov (when Putin was mouthing off?)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radiation-emergencies-information-for-the-public/what-to-do-in-a-radiation-emergency

Radiation emergency = nuclear bomb

The Eighties series Threads showed this scene set in Sheffield iirc.
The horror is still with me.