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

@LadyVampMgs because at some point, you have to trust someone.

Reading other threads on here they would be organising a March against it

Personally trust no one Mr Mulder, is the best advice, that and “A lie is most convincing when hidden between two truths”

I couldn’t live my life that way. It must be exhausting.

Considering it could be debated on how much truth, spin, bias etc there is in the media these days, they caused the public to loose faith and trust in the media, especially when various events were said by the media to be x at one point then it was nope it was completely different etc,

And that means you can’t trust anyone?

https://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedianewsarticles

take notes and consider the information 50/50 until proven otherwise

Thanks, but I have no intention of clicking on that

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29040299

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/technology/government-disinformation-cyber-troops.html

https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth

Why are these links from the 90s being posted

To prove why we should trust nobody under any circumstances 😂😂😂

Get their phones out and film it, probably...

I don't think we'll be given a warning. It would cause too much chaos.

I don't think we'd be given a warning because this government couldn't find its own arse with both hands. You'd find out about it from the flightradar thread.

I would go to the pub.

ALL issue in the world can be put to rights in the local.

I would not hide. I would not kill myself incase the worst did not happen.

We're in the suburbs of a major city and close to the airport so I imagine we'd be damaged in the blast but probs not killed outright. I've far to vivid an imagination for hordes of feral survivors killing each other for food so after the blast I think we'd take the stash of prescription and old recreational drugs we still have and hopefully pop off peacefully

I'm an eternal optimist, so I wouldn't go down the stash of sleeping tablets route, even if I had them. I'd batten down the hatches, try to keep the kids distracted with a movie, and hope for the best.

After the Bay of Pigs a leaflet was dropped into every house here in Ireland advising what to do in the event of a nuclear attack - I remember one piece of advice was to "Turn your back to the blast", so I'd probably give that a try

@Fairyliz I have four bottles of gin! They mock me whenever I open my kitchen cupboard. Not touched them since I found out I was pregnant, I'd make an exception for a nuclear bomb and hope it was over quickly. Especially as my town is between two air bases, RAF Wyton in one direction and RAF Alconbury in the other. We'd be screwed.

Occasionally wonder what world I'm bringing my child into, but I'm not worrying about things I can't do anything about. 🤷🏻‍♀️

They'd probably be too busy on their phones to even notice

I’ll just hope for an EMP then. The city folk will have their world collapse, but at least one side of my family will be fine…

Wait for imminent death.

the show dark angel explores this theme with an emp

I wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war. There's no life after that that would be a life worth having.

Re how would people react?
A lot of different ways I expect.
Some in denial, some, like me, would take their own life, and I imagine there'd be some short term looting because that's what you need in the apocalypse, a 50 inch flat screen TV 🤷 but I think probably most people would just do their best to survive.