If WW3 happens and Russia starts bombing UK, what do you plan to do?

[Brokenpearl]

If WW3 happens and Russia starts bombing UK, what do you plan to do? Do you have a plan of what you would do? Would you stay home or flee the country.. where would you choose to flee to?

I’m of an age to have had “what do when the bomb drops” education in school.

you get under the table. Sorted.

This thread is seriously making me consider stocking up on those 1kg bags of Mini Eggs, tho.

Me and my family are dual nationals so if it really really starts looking like war, we'd hotfoot it to Kenya.

Although tbh if it's nuclear war, I'd rather take one to the head and get vaporised. There no way I'd want to live in a post nuclear war world.

Well there's no wealth or industry to speak of outside London so it will be that that's demolished - the rest are ok imv.
Also 'destroying London' is a pretty good headline to scare the rest of the world into submission. 'Destroying Much Wenlock/ Inverness/ Oxenholm' not so much.

I don’t think they’ll bother to bomb my part of the UK so I’ll be fine 🤣

Use my dual passport and leave if I get enough warning.

You can't fight a nuclear war. You're better off swerving the news and getting on with your life.

Our house and DS' school have already made it through two world wars, and we don't live in central London so not likely to be a prime target. DH and I have jobs that wouldn't stop during a war, and we could be redeployed into war effort roles (more likely me at a strategic level). If there was a world war big enough these days to affect the UK I don't think anywhere else would be any safer anyway so no point in fleeing.

I would want to go but we have no money to do so.

We could go and stay with PIL in the countryside if necessary, and eat their chickens.

We live in the coast opposite Helensburgh. So we are just outside the “certain death from radiation” zone.

it’s the worst place to be in a post apocalyptic world.

insulin, apparently, is the way to go. So, no breaking into supermarkets for tinned goods for me - raid a pharmacy, chew on mini eggs until you doze off into a sugary high?

I haven't even considered anything like this, but just a thought, when people said stuff like this at the start of covid, I thought they were mad. Then we locked down and I had no chocolate.

Be dead I think is the answer, as would much of human life on the planet if that nuclear shit kicked off.

We live close enough to birmingham to probably be wiped out in the first blast and I’d be quite thankful for that, tbh.

Me too, if outside find a bridge to stand under 😂😂

seriously if we had warning my family would all come home hopefully if safe todo so and we would go together, if not 🤷🏼‍♀️ there’s little else you can do

I'd quickly watch the last 2 episodes of One Day.

If Russia drops a nuclear bomb on London I'm a goner, so I'm not going to worry about it! Unless you live far away from any major population centre and are self-sufficient then you're probably fucked, because of fallout. I was thinking about it the other day, because I watched 'Leave the World Behind' and those people had a nuclear bunker under their house. I dunno. We could go my parents' house, but they're only about 100 miles away. Depends where the Russians bomb I suppose.

Good point.

I didn't think about that!

Guess we're all doomed

@Brokenpearl I’ve lost family and friends in Ukraine, one uncle and six cousins still fighting. We spent all savings and threw everything extra we had at moving family to Latvia and the UK in the last two years. If Putin starts on the Baltic states next we will be probably take credit to move family here as we’re now strapped with nursery costs, some will stay with us and some we will need to look for alternative space as we’re in a small two bed house. We have close family friends in the UK who have offered space should the time come. These are real thoughts for many people, real discussions we have had to have. If he comes for the UK, I’ll just have to wait it out or go for the mini egg coma option. You can’t cat and mouse forever.

I wouldn't do anything. Just hope that I die quickly, I suppose. Really not worth stressing about.

Same. It seems like a lot of effort to think about this.

You know what, I've got one of those gigantic bars of Dairy Milk left from Christmas, that can be my version of the Death By Mini-egg.

I'm laughing at where you think you might be able to go in a nuclear war that has wiped everything out. You would be dead.

Same here.

Probably do what lots of other people will be doing, and die, directly or indirectly.

No, I wouldn't flee.

if it was a nuclear war it would be pretty one-sided as ours don't work.