nuclear attack on britain- how likely

[blackbunny]

Posting this in AIBU for traffic.
With all the current unrest in the world, I've found myself obsessing today about the possibility of Britain being attacked.
Now, I suffer from depression and anxiety that is controlled by ADs. My husband has serious health issues, undergoing chemo atm and I'm naturally worried about the outcome. Till today, I've been coping with my feelings and emotions well. But today, seemingly out of the blue I'm haunted by the fear of a nuclear attack, can't seem to shake off the feelings of dread and fear.
I know in my head the reality is remote, but I suppose what I need to hear is that that is right.
Can anybody reassure me? Please help.

Climate changes are affecting us let alone our children! Climate change deniers are far more worrying than nuclear bombs tbh.

*Propertypriceguide
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According to who? I can't see how we're effected by climate change at the moment?.
Ironic how all the rich people who campaign, do so on their private jets back and forth across the globe.

Agree 're climate change. I'm far more worried about having to struggle on long term with dwindling resources than about nuclear war. It's far more likely and more horrific. Natural weather cycles have happened before but with far less frequency.

Really hello? What about using up fossil fuels, not being able to feed the world's population ( which is predicted to peak at 11bn ) without gm crops, melting polar ice caps which hold enough water to drown us all? There are very few climate change deniers. Yes, I agree about the celebs in their private jets, but it doesn't mean the scientists (without private jets) are wrong.

*Raisedbyguineapigs
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I think you'll find nuclear war is far more horrific, quick and brutal then dwindling healthcare.

*Raisedbyguineapigs
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What about the scientists who find manmade climate change questionable?

Yes but far less likely. And if it came to it, we'd all be dead hopefully, rathr than put up with the horrific aftermath. There would be a nuclear winter, the earth would be free from most animal forms for a few thousand years, then new species would evolve from the ashes. They will dig up our bones and put them in museums.

There are very few scientists who deny climate change.

*Raisedbyguineapigs
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It would take a hell of a lot of nuclear bombs to kill off the entire planet and the aftermath of a nuclear bomb would be far worse then the gradual change of climate or dwindling NHS resources. I prefer not to jump on the bandwagon of worrying about things that are not within our power to change.
I don't fly and I recycle what my council will allow me to recycle and that's all that I can do. As far as I'm concerned 'little people' like you and I are not responsible for the possible 'climate change' the governments and high powered people are responsible for it, yet they're the ones moaning about it.

I agree with you there. Recycling our yoghurt pots isn't going to make as much difference as governments and big business doing things other than lip service. But this while there's is about worrying about things beyond our control. Id hope none of my lives ones would survive a nuclear war, because it would be horrific, so I agree with you there too.

whole thread

lobby your MP, eat less meat - both things you can do to try and help delay climate change in the hope that science will advance to the point where we can reverse the changes that are already taking place.

It is already affecting my child, in 20 years no-one will be able to deny it.

In 1953 it was two minutes to midnight.

If it kicks off in the short term it will either be a loon like Trump and Kim Jong whatever in North Korea. China will be forced to protect their ally and that will drag Russia in to. But I suspect that Trump will be dealt with before that happened.

The real worry is if any nutcases in Pakistan gets hold of their weapons and unleashes them against India. China on India's doorstep will react to defend themselves and then USA may react to defend India, then before we know it we are drawn in.

See www.imdb.com/title/tt2936978/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9

(War Book)

I watched the War Book fairly recently (shouldn't have). I know it's just a film - but the arguments made on there to justify using nuclear weapons to protect our allies, are ones I can imagine being used in reality. It really did make me think.

Im sitting here reading this thread with TOTP2 on from 1980 and Enola Gay just came on. Spooky coincidence! Great song.

Remember when Germany was divided, east and west. All the ingredients were there for a war between us and the Russians, they were very tense times. Fortunately both sides knew there would be no winners. Hopefully the same logic still applies.

When I went to theatre from my emergency c sec the drugs made me feel very wonky and I was screaming about nuclear war and we needed to send our children to the countryside.

It gave the theatre staff a good titter

I read the thread title like it had happened or was immanent and my stomach did that horrible flipping over thing.

I used to say that it would never happen but i am more scared now than i wasin the 80s

Woody same here

Does anyone else find it amazingly bonkers that lots of silly little people are starting major fights on 'behalf' of groups of people who don't want them to start fights?.. the world is like a massive playground, of 'he said you were a bitch are you going to fight him'? type people having odd fights over the bins or the corner of the playground, and everyone else is just getting on with things and walking round them going 'wtf are they doing?'

COuntries are becoming economically smaller than businesses now, so its even more like scrapping church committees.. only with control of the village thugs..

Its well weird.

Takes me back! We were all worrying about AIDS then.

Nearly happened twice in the '80s.

Russia shot down a South Korean 747 and Regan went ape. Shortly after NATO had a huge war game in the Baltic on Russia's doorstep.

Russia believed it to be the prelude to an attack but Russian spies in NATO knew the truth and fed this back to the Kremlin.

Then there was Stanislav Petrov, he was duty office at a Russian early warning installation when the systems detected a missile launch from the USA and then up to 5 more. He believed the system to be at fault so didn't report it. If he had, it would have very likely lead to a nuclear exchange.

It turned out that the Russian satellites and the computers were at fault. They misread sunlight reflecting off high altitude clouds as launches.

Could have been the end of us all.

I know someone who used to have a reasonably high up position in the US military and is very clued up about this stuff. He thinks that there is probably going to be a war fought mainly using airplanes and not going nuclear.

Because lots of airplanes being shot down and replaced at high cost will give the world economy a massive shot in the arm. And all the countries involved would probably benefit at a macro level.

Don't worry OP and those worried about a 'Nuclear Holocaust' as it was called in the '70s', when some of us felt like pawns in a world dominated by USvUSSR 'relations. We thought we had "No Future" and we were wrong.

Generating fear is a form of 'power' used to subjugate people so that they are easier to manipulate. Kings, Senators and Churches have done it for centuries. (eg: Hell). Fear (extraordinarily enough) has also been linked to 'spending' and 'consumerism' - people spend more....(possibly linked to 'fatalism')....so it's probably to buck up sluggish economies. Anyhow, sleep well, it's in nobody's interest to 'push the button'.