So if there is a nuclear attack...

[Justcurious12]

...What happens? I've literally no idea...

Their teachers will look out for them. Don't worry.

I always took comfort in mine being a 2 minute sprint at primary. Now they are at secondary in different directions 😩

I have a world war 11 anderson shelter in my cellar, so far I just show it to locals who are interested but I might be using it after all.

Going to see DPs for the weekend in Kent . Thought that would be alright . Then I remembered RAF Marsden

dingit . . Same here

You'll be fine. It will be good for you to visit them.

Dh and I have been talking and neither of us think it will be nuclear. We both think cyber. To the point that I've ordered stuff with my boots points tonight from
Their value ranges to make a first aid box up (a proper one not my slapdash cupboard) and some
Bits from
Superdrug for the medicine cupboard. And some water containers that can be used at the yard if need be.

Sounds good. Cyber, you can - sort of - prepare for.

I read your post as meaning that your Boots points would be worthless after a cyber attack and so you wanted to get them spent now, SideOrder

Not quite that bad 😂😂 with my three kids I needed a decent first aid set up anyway

Then that's just being sensible.

Honestly you should see my youngest. If he can trip over it, walk into it or fall up it he will

An all out nuclear war won't happen. If the worst was to happen, I think nuclear strike will be kept to a minimum (one 'either' side) and be contained around the Korean peninsula.

Unfortunately, we will suffer the consequences in economic and probable travel terms.

I hope you're right.

it will be a horrible disaster

If a nuclear bomb hit another nuclear bomb (I assume they store the Trident nuclear stuff in Clyde?) or a reactor, would that cause another bomb? Or a shit ton more radiation in like a domino effect?

Really thick question - I remember getting iodine tablets at some point in case anything went tits-up at sellafield, I'm guessing that was just a placebo and there's nothing we can do to not get radiation poisoning if it happens?

If you really want to know the aftermath then I suggest to visit Chernobyl. A few years ago I was obsessed with idea of nuclear war. I even bought isotope identification device just for a case. And I was thinking to go to Chernobyl and see it with my own eyes, to feel the atmosphere of devastation.

NotA I grew up not far from Bradwell, and we had iodine tablets.

Iodine tablets are to mitigate the possibility of thyroid cancer if I recall?

I live near enough to Catterick Garrison to be absolutely obliterated 😩

Potassium iodide is also known as stable iodine. It fills up your thyroid gland to stop radioactive iodine getting in

I have UK friends who were students in Minsk during Chernobyl (which is right on the Belarus/Ukraine border). They were told to take iodine to protect their thyroid glands before they were eventually evacuated back to UK.
Other Belorussian friends were offered a premium to work in the most irradiated areas on the border. When I was there a year after you were warned to check where any food came from. It was the dodgy stuff that was cheapest.
PS: now in my 50s with no cancers found (yet) and a fully healthy dd.

I think you are all overreacting. Even if NK fired nuclear missiles, they wouldn't survive to see the next morning, China would be the first to make sure of that. A nuclear war is in no one's interest. More concerning is the possibility of terrorists creating dirty bombs.

Biological warfare and cyber attacks

I can’t give head space to possible nuclear war. Did that far too much growing up through the 80’s.

So, in the unlikely event that it does happen, and we get some warning, I will crack open a good wine, some good chocolate, and go out into the garden. That is one disaster I would not want to survive.