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

No one is saying these things can't be discussed. It is about the motivations of the poster. I suggest you do an AS on the OP. It is enlightening.

@Shiningout Good thinking, but do you actually have a load of sleeping pills?

I don't but wish I did.

@GintyMcGinty There is no mechanism for warning the general public (was all dismantled post 1991) - unless you believe the Government's text message thing would be used and more importantly would work - unlikely from last year's test!

The 15 to 30 minutes or so notice the UK would get of an incoming strategic nuclear attack would mainly be used to get our own missiles away before the ability to do so was destroyed.

To add, we also have warning sirens that are used in acute danger and reaches most of our population. They do sound tests every three months.

@bringsomewood Please elucidate why you think I am being incredibly naive?

I assure you that your explanation won't be lost on me.

@LauderSyme basically what @IClaudine said. It is about the motivations of the poster. And other similar posters today.

@LauderSyme there are elections coming up here in the UK and in the US. There will be more manipulation on SM than normal, involving all sorts of players with varying agendas.

This current player is sitting in a dressing gown waiting for her Papa John's to arrive

I am not a spy. I am not 'a player in the game'

I am a mildly bored parent carer sat on the sofa browsing Mumsnet!

Maybe speak to the Japanese they had to go through it twice.

…. Yes there were….

@Rycbar in Japan. The poster was speaking about 'well in WW1 and 2...' and it was based on Europe in that context of her reply

Different to Japan, obviously

I didn't say you were any of those things. I certainly didn't say you were a spy 🤣

Not the Nine O'Clock News - Question Time - Soviet Nuclear Attack

Didn't know that we were restricting the events of a WORLD War to just Europe

@ToBeOrNotToBee no, but there was an assumption in this case - which was me assuming that particular poster that you took that response from was either European or American. A fair assumption, I'd say

American bombed Japan with the technology advancements of international (including British) scientists.

How do you think the public would react if we got told 'a nuclear bomb is heading our way, this is goodbye'

If this was the case (and it was incomming armeggendon) we wouldn't be told. What's the point? It would cause mass panic. Those politicians with access to a bunker would be off, the rest of us would die.

It's like at the airport when they know the flight is going to be delayed by 5 hours, they don't tell you that because there would be a riot. It gets doled out in 30 min delays.

If there's any chance of being put in stasis for 2000 years, while orbiting the planet in space, I'll take that option please.

I think I'd prefer not to know. I reckon that 4 minute warning would seem a long time despite being no time at all ( is a 4 minute warning a real thing or is that just a fallacy?)

This is such an odd thing to say. The bombing of Japan by the US was a pivotal event which had repercussions for the entire world.

Indeed. But we didn't have the devastating fallout that they did because of it, did we?

The poster was talking about the hardships relating to war on the ground and air/naval since that's where it hurt us the most in those wars, obviously

Am I in the immediate blast zone? If so, I’d put my headphones in and listen to something nice. If I’m with my family I’d put the kids favourite movie on and just not tell them.

if in the ‘fire’ zone - I’d look to get usunderground and if alive after look to move towards safety. Probably take iodine tablets if I can find them in the cupboard.

if outside - check my supplies and stock up on seeds and any outstanding items I might need. Explain to the kids they need to stay indoors and follow orders.

The fallout from the more modern bombs isn’t as bad apparently. If you survive the blast you’ve a middling to decent chance.

so basically when our main stream media was covering various Wmd's how exactly should a population trust offical sources as when we did Wmd scandal happened ?

@Validus It's not really the age of the bomb per se, it depending on if the nuclear weapon was used in ground burst (much more fallout), air burst (less fall out) or as an EMP weapon (little fall out)