Prepping for Nuclear attack

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The ultimate preparation question. But is there any point? I would suggest no.

None whatsoever we would be dust. Or poisoned

I live a few miles from GCHQ, so no point at all! In fact I'd rather be dust than die from radiation poisoning or burns.

Iodine I suppose. Which we have for water anyway. But really, find the tallest building, get to the top and watch the fireworks.

I know you're supposed to have something white, a door I think was the suggestion, and hide under it. At least from what I remember in the 70s. But if you live in a major population centre or near anything important (and that's most of the UK) you're buggered.

Let's say you live in the Isle of skye or somewhere. Now is it worth prepping anything ? I guess there is a potential argument

A stock pile of drugs, just in case I survive the blast....

Specifically, perhaps iodine. We used to have it when we lived abroad near ish to a potentially dodgy nuclear power station.

Thats the only thing I can think of that’s specific to nuclear. Otherwise, you’re either going to survive and deal with the shit show, or you’re not. Don’t think you can really influence which of those you are.

I think the best prep would be to move somewhere less likely to get attacked. Otherwise, nothing special you can do (unless you have the resources to build a bunker, perhaps).

Iodine and tinned food. And a way to keep warm when the weather changes. Anything fished, foraged or grown will be contaminated. Frankly, sounds miserable.

If it’s anything like Threads it looks like misery

I wouldn't want to be the last human left

Iodine is only needed for under 30s.

You'll need to hide away from fallout for up to 14 days so will need enough food and water for that long. Also have a long or medium wave radio. FM radios will cease to work.

Tap water in containers is better than bottled water.

Enough helium to gently suffocate 4 adults.

There's no point in prepping for a NW. I wouldn't want to survive one, I know that.

Honestly, who would even want to survive it? The world would be completely different. I’m guessing they’d be little to no medications so most of my family would die anyway even if we survived initially.

Me too. Hopefully it will be the first place attacked and land right on my head.

Would you want to survive? In chaos, no medical care, slow radiation poisoning, nothing to eat because the animals and crops are mostly dead? The idea of clinging on like that is much worse, to me.

I doubt anyone would want to survive anyway, even if they were healthy.

Wouldn’t bother. In fact I’d prep for the opposite - not to survive. Can’t think of anything worse (if we were directly attacked). But we are thirty minutes outside of London by train so I would hope we would go boom if the UK was targeted.

No point whatsoever.

The best possible outcome of a nuclear war is for you and your loved ones to be obliterated in the first few minutes. There would be absolutely nothing worth surviving for.

You can use Nukemap to simulate fallout and blast radii etc to determine if you'd survive the primary blast.

There's a youtube series where someone has seriously planned this out, but yes, because the radiation levels halve every x number of days, the longer you can stay uncontaminated, the better.

I'd just like to remind people that there are in fact survivors of Hiroshima who are still alive right now, in fact you can go to the Hiroshima Memorial Museum and hear them speak.
We're not really in charge of our fate. They have lived lives well and continue to bear witness.
So prep what you can and live while you're still here.

Today’s bombs are 3000 times more powerful than Little Boy that was dropped on Hiroshima

Hiroshima was one bomb, not the thousands which would hit the U.K. almost simultaneously in the event of a 21st century nuclear war.

And compared to the destructive power of today’s enormous thermonuclear weapons, the Hiroshima bomb was a firework.

There would be nothing worth surviving for.

It's interesting how delusional people are about surviving A nuclear bomb. If it ever comes to it, it won't be A nuclear bomb - it will be Mutually Assured Destruction, and if you are unlucky enough to survive the bombs, and the radiation doesn't get you, the nuclear winter will. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were single blasts with relatively weak bombs, and only because nobody else had any to throw back.

Exactly, very small bombs with no hope of retaliation.

Most of the UK would be glass after the bombs that would fall now. Some are 3000 times as powerful now. 3000.