To wonder if the government have started any planning on what if a nuclear weapon hit britain

[Gotajobthrunepotism]

Even in the current climate, I don’t actually believe that a nuclear bomb will be hitting the UK.

But I wondered if the government have prepared for the eventuality.

I heard that in the 70s/80s there were loads of leaflets and adverts of what we should do if we were attacked.

In other countries they have bomb shelters and sirens.

I wouldn’t have a clue what to do. The only thing I do know is that I would want to be with my family when it happened.

Anyone one else wonder about this?

How on earth can you assume everyone in this thread was furloughed or worked from home or on benefits?

@Wbeezer

My Grampa was chief Puvlic Health Officer and was in the Civil Defence Force si would have been in the bunker and would have had to leave his family to fend for themselves! My Dad was a GP and in those pre Harold Shipman days had Morphine in his doctors bag, he told me his plan to was to give us each a fatal overdose, what a fun time the Cold War was. I joined CND and used to go on "die ins" outside American Air bases, no wonder dressing in black and being gloomy was the fashion for so many 80s teens.

Same with my dad, Wbeezer. I can still hear him saying 'I've got enough heroin for the whole family'.

The Cold War was terrifying and I had many nuclear holocaust nightmares during those years. Decades later, a neighbour's daughter spotted my CND badge and her lip actually curled in disdain. She said 'If countries want nukes they should have them'. That was about 20 years ago and she'd be in her late 30s now, possibly with children. I wonder what she thinks now.

I personally wouldn't want to go into a nuclear fall out shelter and would rather die in the blast.
How long will you have to stay locked in there? And what would be left when you cab eventually come out......nothing.

Where I live they test the sirens at lunchtime on the first Wednesday of every month. They had to issue a special reminder last week not to freak out, it was just business as usual.

lol

@EatSleepRantRepeat

I was told that as a police officer's family member there would be a place for me in the bunker. I think your ex-DH was being very kind to you there - had a parent in the job in the 80s who was told families were to be left behind.

FIL worked in this sort of planning in the 70s in an authority with an essential strategic military target in the area.

Shortly after he started work there, he decided the family (him, MIL and the then 18 month old DP) were all moving to a little village >10 miles away with natural water supplies from moorland even further away from the target. No questions, they were moving. Didn't tell anybody why at the time, not even his wife - he sold it to her as an amazing lifestyle for the kid and a second one. But it was because of the work he was doing - he started talking about it in recent years.

@Olderkids

No, I am saying that we were provided with all of these things by a good PM

Excluding over 3 million people from the support grants was definitely NOT the signs of a good PM!

@AuxArmesCitoyens

Where I live they test the sirens at lunchtime on the first Wednesday of every month. They had to issue a special reminder last week not to freak out, it was just business as usual.

Same here, but on Mondays. Will feel like an extra reminder tomorrow when this happens.

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

You have to remain inside for as long as possible - preferably a couple of weeks - then the worst of the fallout risk will have dropped. After that you'll have to stop your neighbours from attacking you to steal your pasta and toilet rolls.

Haven't we just been through that?!

I bet you all took your furlough, ‘working’ from home, free vaccines, free tests. Or if you are on benefits, took the additional money to feed YOUR kids while they were not receiving free school meals, only to complain when they returned to school and it was stopped. As a shielder, I even had food parcels delivered every week courtesy of the government, until I stopped them.

I never received any of these things, and I think Johnson has been the shittest prime minister in my lifetime, as well as am absolutely shit person.

HTH

The current generation of hydrogen bombs are just too powerful to survive. If they are dropped on our cities it will be the end of life as we know it. There's no point trying to hide.

Johnson likes to play at being Churchill. I doubt he thinks about helping ordinary people at all.

I can't Wade through 18 pages.

The government isn't in charge of repellent nuclear bombs!

Has anyone Said what we Will see? I'e CSB we shoot down nuclear stuff? Rockets? Missiles?

Maybe they will announce that there will be space for certain key workers in bunkers and we can all argue about that again.

@lightand

I was told recently there is a bomb shelter under our County's County Hall. For the planners if there is to be a nuclear bomb!

Made me wonder if other County Halls have the same thing, all for themselves!

Yes, there are rooms under ours, not a bomb shelter particularly - all set out for emergency planning. ( well contain lots of white boards...😂).

You can choose to die quickly in the actual blast or slowly from all the fall out radiation.

How do you get to choose? Surely it all depends on where in the country you live!

How do you get to choose? Surely it all depends on where in the country you live!

We haven't 'chosen' exactly but we live near a large airbase so, if it happens, we'll get vaporised.

@NeverDropYourMooncup What use would "natural moorland water supplies" have been if the UK was covered in nuclear fallout?

We live within miles of a military base (single figure distance), so will have the luxury of immediate vaporisation too, thankfully.

Hmm... a quick google tells me we are in one of the safest places (Lake District). Don't suppose it would stay safe for long once society had collapsed though.

@kittensinthekitchen

We live within miles of a military base (single figure distance), so will have the luxury of immediate vaporisation too, thankfully.

Depends..reasonable number of single figures, lowish yield device and and you might get lucky/unlucky (delete as applicable).

@Fairislefandango Nope, Sellafield would probably be classed as key target.

Ditto Barrow.

People talking about heroin.. I have this vision of some smackhead in a doorway not even knowing the atomic bomb has gone off and just thinking ‘wow that’s some good stuff’

Looking at this and how close we are to the airbase, we'd be fucked. nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/