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?

ITT: lots of people who've never watched the brilliant classic that is Threads.

I should make a will really. Leaving my estate and all my worldly goods to my two cats. I hope it doesn't happen. I'm waiting for my annual pay rise in April

Perhaps the government will release the public information films which were to tell us what to do when they attacked and how to "survive" from 1975. Or you could watch When the Wind blows i suppose for tips on what not to do!

Indeed......

It scared the crap out of me and many others at the time. The blind panic.

Very well researched.

I've got it on DVD, my son and I watched it on Xmas day as we decided it was more interesting than the crap on the telly.

That's one way to celebrate Christmas I suppose! "A skeleton of a cat... a cat's skeleton."

The poor cats {or any animals} won't survive. Edit...Nuclear weapons are evil.

That's a good idea. With an estimated 50 million dead or dying in the UK, one thing you can be sure of is that the probate system will be up and running.

@Menomeno 😂

I'm probably going by old fashioned talk of New Zealand being the ''Safest'' place.
My natural mother, and later adoptive mother were both involved in CND so I'm likely very out of touch with modern Nuclear stuff- but even back in the1980's it was considered 'Game over' with nuclear winters wiping out food sources and polluting water &c and radiation sickness.

''Protect and Survive'' and ''When the wind blows'' are about where my knowledge ends re nuclear warfare as it's just so depressing.

Humans are the worst thing for the Earth.
We have destroyed the Planet like no other animal possibly could.

Yes, you should definitely have kept that one under {crinkly yellow and purple?}wraps!

I make light of it, but obviously it would be horrendous if it really happened.

I'd nip up to Downing Street and shit on Rishi's doorstep.

Where are 70 million people going to flee to and how?
I think I would literally stay at home. If nuclear war started it would hopefully be over in minutes and I would be safely on the other side.
If not, I would find a way to finish myself off.
Hth

Omg, Threads!

I remember this vividly as a young teen and it scared me so much....and the AIDS crisis......and the sight of IRA terrorists in balaclavas.

The 80s were scary.

What would you do if aliens invaded? Or if you were told the sun was going to explode?

Both just as likely as ww3.

To be fair, the mini egg plan will fail if ww3 starts after Easter weekend as you cannot find a bag of mini eggs anywhere post Easter. Need the window from January-April or build a good stockpile now.

We live in London so hopefully will be nuked in the initial blast.

Otherwise DH and kids all have Aussie passports so they could fuck off to pastures new (although how they'd get in a plane under those circumstances I don't know) and the dog and I would stay home and dine on champagne and chocolate until the inevitable end.

Where do you think you could flee to? Which country is going to welcome British refugees?

I'm old enough to have lived through this threat before.
I've seen Threads.
I've no desire to survive a nuclear war.

I would be fine, confident that I would be contacted in advance by the government to direct me to the nearest nuclear bunker.
You know, the ones provided for ordinary citizens like you and I, and not just Very Important People like the Royal Family, government ministers, MPs, the House of Lords, Armed Forces, etc.....
(I think I've just seen some pigs fly past my window......)
Seriously - does anyone have the facts about what shelter exists for ordinary people? I would suspect none, But I'd love to be proved wrong.

Finally try magic mushrooms?

Probably give a short scream then scatter myself over a wide area.

Not really worth worrying about!

Me too, what else could one do under the circumstances

I confess that, to date, I had devoted little time to worrying about marmot incursion. Do you think they can be bought off with Mini Eggs?

There’s no harm in asking. Apparently their main hobby is photo-bombing, so you can summon one by setting up a selfie.

Aren't we supposed to shelter under the kitchen table and not look at the bright light? At least that's what we were told in the 1980s.