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 would take it with a pinch of salt.

I used to be friendly with a soldier who regularly formed part of the escort party when nuclear weapons were moved around. He claimed that they were not much concerned, because a lot of the tests showed that the warheads ‘malfunctioned’ I.e. failed to go off , quite often.

And when you consider how build quality and reliability of most equipment has declined in the past twenty years, I doubt that the only exception is in weaponry. The German government has just admitted that the new rifles they have supplied to their army can’t shoot straight.

Cheer up @WinterMorn , it probably won’t happen, and if it does , it might not turn out as the warmongers expect.

Another scaremongering thread. We need to stop fuelling these.

Be on the lookout for false
information

States and organisations are already using misleading information in order to try and influence our values and how we act. The aim may be to reduce our resilience and willingness to defend ourselves.

Careful @bringsomewood, I got jumped all over for raising an objection. You are spot on though.

Thank you - flu aside, I am quite cheery and I don’t think it would be likely to happen either. I just don’t think these threads are very helpful and find them suspect.

Were you really? There are several threads like this today, op has a couple of them. Like someone else on another thread said, we need to join the dots. This is not something to take lightly.

how can a population have democracy, have a main stream media 24/7 that covers a lot more reach and influence, yet on mumsnet however its omg how dare people discuss topics like nuclear war ?

what do people prefer, no internet only offical papers and media to "educate the population" ?

Yes, have a look at P3 on this thread. It all starts there. OP apparently has 3 of these threads now.

no wonder penny universities and coffee shops from uk history etc became popular

Same. I'm not living through something like that.

@bringsomewood with this individual being like a dog with a bone.

@LauderSyme you are actually being incredibly naive.

I'm on the East Anglian coast and there's a bit of debate going on in the local FB group about.the possibility of the US putting their missiles here which would mean we'd be in the firing line for Putin. Lots of outrage, whereas I'm thinking that, if we're going to be nuked,I'd rather go out instantly than die a lingering death from radiation poisoning.

I remember considering this situation when the dc were small and wondering if I would have the courage to kill them and then myself.

I think that now, if I wasn't immediately wiped out, I'd sit with DH, tell him.how much I loved him and how glad I am.that we've had our lives together. I'd try to contact our (adult) dc. And then I'd hope DH and I could kill ourselves painlessly.

Yeah I’ve read back now. It’s actually dangerous to be this naive.

I posted this on another thread, it’s a brochure sent out to the population of Sweden. Easy to read.

https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30307.pdf

Be on the lookout for false
information

States and organisations are already using misleading information in order to try and influence our values and how we act. The aim may be to reduce our resilience and willingness to defend ourselves.

The best protection against false information and hostile
propaganda is to critically appraise the source:
• Is this factual information or opinion?
• What is the aim of this information?
• Who has put this out?
• Is the source trustworthy?
• Is this information available somewhere else?
• Is this information new or old and why is it out there at this precise moment?
• Search for information – the best way to counteract propaganda and false information is to have done
your homework.
• Do not believe in rumours – use more than one reliable source in order to see whether the information is
correct.
• Do not spread rumours – if the information does not appear trustworthy, do not pass it on.

what is your wisdom ?

It would be lost on you.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/sweden-distributes-be-prepared-for-war-cyber-terror-attack-leaflet-to-every-home

@bringsomewood Am I? Why is that?

Is OP really an agent provocateur seeking to normalise the prospect of atomic armageddon via Mumsnet? Or do you have other reasons for labelling me thus?

yea the joe public just do your duties and dont think about important issues

Well yes, this is the one I posted. ^^ You should read it.

https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30307.pdf

with weapons today those measures are very very basic

A lot of atheists and agnostics praying all of a sudden.

Better than none, like the UK.

Our nearest shelter is two houses away. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t looked up where their nearest are. There are about one on every road where I live. Might help, might not. But at least there is a plan.

Kind of depends where you are - my sister would probably be OK as in Buckinghamshire countryside but the rest of us are in London, albeit not central.

I imagined me and DH would get kids into our cellar with us and hope we're outside the 'totally flattened zone' and then if we survived and London was a nuclear fallout wasteland we'd probably try to go to my parents' large second home in an obscure part of central Europe that no one would be bothering to bomb anywhere near.

Is it still a 4 minute warning?

Most people won't have time to react.