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?

That was to @fungh

@Millicent2022

No they are not!

Who is he?

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I am of the 'protect and survive' and 'when the wind blows' generation.

I also
Live in between salt mines and a 'secret bunker'

I know how to make a shelter out of internal doors, paint windows white and open windows before the blast so the pressure stays the same.

But tbh I think DH and I will drink ourselves silly and probably take loads of pills... I don't really want to die of radiation poisoning.

@Millicent2022

Sorry my reply was mixed up trying to reply to two posters at once.

That poster is referring to the west as the bear!

Exactly

Who is he in the below?

To poke the bear, just as he's been doing for years. Push, see what you can get away with

Putin as you say.

So why on earth are you replying to one of my exchanges with that poster saying the below?

You know the term ‘poking the bear’ refers to Russia as the bear in Cold War parlance not the West?

Why is that relevant to the conversation I was having with another poster who was referring to the West as the bear?!

That poster is referring to the west as the bear!

Well doh, this was my point.

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@bellinisurge as I said I'm not disagreeing with you but I was specifically talking about the prep threads on AIBU the last week who are not doing that in reference to what you say on the prepping boards. On this part of MNs some are panicking.

@Alisae

I reckon Mumsnet users should form our own wasteland horde. Safety in numbers and all that. Make a start on this thread by organising checkpoints for survivors so we can gather.

We can hammer the details out as we go along, but naturally there would be rules. Mumsnet rules.

The clan would be trained in deadly hand to hand combat techniques, such as the t-Rex arm basket slam. Clan weapon of choice: the dreaded dirty loo brush.

Stepmums, babies with their ears pierced and those who park in considerately would be our main form of sustenance in the early days.

I’ve played every single Fallout game, which pretty much makes me an expert. I’m certain that we need to start collecting bottle caps and bobbleheads to prepare for the currency change over.

I understand that we can't digest sweetcorn, so when the 'balloon goes up' and society collapses i calculate that with four tins of sweetcorn, a washing-up bowl and a small nail brush, one should be able to survive without additional food forever...

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles I vote for you to be in charge of provisions. That is exactly the type of out of the box thinking we are going to need in an apocalyptic wasteland

That's me sorted then, thank you! @Alisae

Our successive govts could have done better if they put the interest of the country first instead of simply focused on winning elections and dumbing down the whole population. Putin has spent so much money influencing British politics and even his former oligarchs say it's too wide spread and

@Pedallleur

Everyone thinks nuclear but bio or chemical weapons can be equally devastating but after a few days/weeks they are no longer dangerous. Salisbury proved that a small amount of nerve agent can paralyse an area

As an aside, the house that the Russian chap lived in is now owned by the council, and I believe it's been offered to people on the waiting list for housing. My niece saw it there.

This has just come up as a suggested buy on my Amazon account !!

As an aside, the house that the Russian chap lived in is now owned by the council, and I believe it's been offered to people on the waiting list for housing. My niece saw it there.

Same plot, different house. The Skripal’s house has been demolished and another one built in its place.

Polonium-210 has a half life of 140 days and 'the Russian chap' was poisoned over 15 years ago. Any residual contamination decayed away to nothing years ago.

@watcherintherye

As an aside, the house that the Russian chap lived in is now owned by the council, and I believe it's been offered to people on the waiting list for housing. My niece saw it there.

Same plot, different house. The Skripal’s house has been demolished and another one built in its place.

Oh really? That's good.

there was a good plan during the cold war, there was the berlington bunker and many others mainly manned by the royal observer corps, however they have all been declassified and sold and scrapped, with Trident the government takes the view that it is an effective deterrent as our submarines can be anywhere in the world to retaliate with very short notice anywhere in the world, it is seen as an effective deterrent and the cost of building civilian bunkers etc for something that might not happen is just not going to provide value for the taxpayer, if it were to happen the government is prepared for the extremely high loss of life this would entail, as pp's have said they'll be safe and thats what matters to them

@watcherintherye

As an aside, the house that the Russian chap lived in is now owned by the council, and I believe it's been offered to people on the waiting list for housing. My niece saw it there.

Same plot, different house. The Skripal’s house has been demolished and another one built in its place.

Just had a look on Google, the roof was taken off the house, the house cleaned and a new roof put on. The flat where Dawn Sturgess lived has been demolished. She died after her boyfriend gave her the perfume bottle believed to contain novichock.

@Person123456

there was a good plan during the cold war, there was the berlington bunker and many others mainly manned by the royal observer corps, however they have all been declassified and sold and scrapped, with Trident the government takes the view that it is an effective deterrent as our submarines can be anywhere in the world to retaliate with very short notice anywhere in the world, it is seen as an effective deterrent and the cost of building civilian bunkers etc for something that might not happen is just not going to provide value for the taxpayer, if it were to happen the government is prepared for the extremely high loss of life this would entail, as pp's have said they'll be safe and thats what matters to them

BURLINTON (renamed several times, inc. TURNSTILE and CHANTICLEER) ceased its Central Government War Headquarters role in 1968, and was effectively replaced by the PYTHON arrangements. What this meant was that instead of planning to staff BURLINTON with around 4,000 people in the 7 days before a nuclear exchange (a War Book assumption), it was now expected there to be only 2-3 days, and that ICBM technology meant that BURLINGTON was insufficiently protected. PYTHON was designed to disperse government to a number of alternative locations throughout the country, with the aim of at least some surviving.

@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!

I used to work for a Borough Council who had a new Civic Centre built in the 1980s complete with an underground bomb shelter.

It was used to store documents in. Brief discussions led to the same conclusion, if there was a potential nuclear bomb coming our way, who would want to be in a bunker with colleagues and who would rather be with their families and loved ones......

I'd rather get immediately blitzed than die a slow painful death in the fall out. There really is nothing you can plan for against a nuclear attack !

@user68901 oh I don’t know there is always pasta and toilet rolls. Take an iodine tablet and stick a bag of spaghetti on your head.

stick a bag of spaghetti on your head

That's the idea, practising deportment as one gets blown up should provide a healthy distraction to the goings on. The process of concentrating on preventing the bag of spaghetti falling off one's head while the bombs drop is an excellent idea and should be more widely discussed

@Justanotherobserver that’s my plan. I am going juggle bog rolls at the same time - should provide enough of a distraction.

A wise choice, @Clarabe1, a wise choice.

I really need to stop opening these threads. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

Even if Putin has a small strategic warning strike (I’ve heard sea based between the U.K. and Denmark), this will probably lead to the dear leader of N Korea to think he has permission to launch an attack.

Whilst putin may or may not have kept his nuclear force up to date we know that North Korea keeps investing all its money in such things rather than feeding its population.