In the event of nuclear war...

[Yorkshire Andy]

Hopefully not in your local parish church on a Sunday!

The vicar would have a heart attack!

[Kiwififer]

I wish I was as good at predicting lotto numbers.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... clear-deal

Iran is supplying Russia with ballistic missiles, Russia is helping Iran with building a bomb. Palestine is still in flames, Israel is lobbing bombs into Syria and Lebanon, Vlad is saying he considers himself at war with NATO if storm shadows are fired into Russia and the Ukraine keeps being a modern day Verdun.

If society is still about in ten years from now, we will be lucky.

[Arzosah]

It doesn't look good, does it. It's the same trouble spots that have been going for a long while, but they're all "hotter".

[Kiwififer]

It doesn't look good, does it. It's the same trouble spots that have been going for a long while, but they're all "hotter".

We are all living in interesting times as the Chinese say.

[tarmactatt]

Looks like the Norwegians are taking the threat seriously and asking citizens to prepare a week's worth of supplies.

I'll not link any specific news article, it's available from your favourite internet serch providers...

[jennyjj01]

Looks like the Norwegians are taking the threat seriously and asking citizens to prepare a week's worth of supplies.

I'll not link any specific news article, it's available from your favourite internet serch providers...

Here ya go
https://www.dsb.no/globalassets/dokumen ... al_eng.pdf

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/11/03 ... or-crisis/

I commend the idea of these government preparedness advice, but they'd get misconstrued in the UK and induce panic.

[PPrep]

Here ya go
https://www.dsb.no/globalassets/dokumen ... al_eng.pdf

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2024/11/03 ... or-crisis/

I commend the idea of these government preparedness advice, but they'd get misconstrued in the UK and induce panic.
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Thanks for the links. Yes, even the sensible suggestion by our Government to stock up for 3 days, although too little, caused unnecessary concern. I think FEMA in the US and US citizens in general may be more grounded about prepping on the whole.

[Omega]

My understanding is that Russia will warn us in advance before hitting us with nuclear weapons
I don’t believe bull in news where, I think, our admiral said we should not worry about Russian missiles because they will have to fly over territory of a few NATO countries, so they are likely to be intercepted - Russian missile fired from Kaliningrad region will hit London within 202 seconds according to Russian news, we may not even be able to do anything. Also, I would think Russian will hit us from their nuclear submarines, and I don’t know if any is within 10 miles from our shores
The good news though is that Russia doesn’t have many nuclear warheads on duty, lots are in storage though. So, we maybe be hit with circa 20 warheads, most likely double tap to increase the damage. And there is a nuclear map showing the size of the damage
I recently read news that there are fungus in Chernobyl that eat radioactive material and checked with a university friend who lives in the exclusion zone (he is also quite well known scientist) - he said it is nonsense. Well, I am not radiation expert
Meanwhile, I cleared the garage under my house - I will park the car in the garage and sit there with the family, a protection of the house and car body is better than just a house (my garage door is not looking into the direction where the explosion is likely to happen). I have gas masks, respirators , clothing, food and water in the garage, so I can quickly through them into the car (3 days should be enough)

[jennyjj01]

My understanding is that Russia will warn us in advance before hitting us with nuclear weapons

What's in it for them? Maybe an ultimatum might be issued by them to 'do xyz or we will strike a European city at noon'
Warning or no warning, I can't see it would make much difference to us as it would be miscommunicated, misinterpreted and mistrusted.
If they are able to launch them, they are able to hit us. Maybe if they warned us well in advance with proposed ETA, we could chuck everything at them in a pre-emptive strike, to which they'd dust down and fire back. Either way we are screwed.

I don’t believe bull in news where, I think, our admiral said we should not worry about Russian missiles because they will have to fly over territory of a few NATO countries, so they are likely to be intercepted - Russian missile fired from Kaliningrad region will hit London within 202 seconds according to Russian news, we may not even be able to do anything. Also, I would think Russian will hit us from their nuclear submarines, and I don’t know if any is within 10 miles from our shores.

Intercepted? I don't think so. We don't have interception in any plan. The MAD doctrine is that we'd retaliate in kind. Nothing about intercepting ICBM's once they are launched.

The good news though is that Russia doesn’t have many nuclear warheads on duty, lots are in storage though. So, we maybe be hit with circa 20 warheads, most likely double tap to increase the damage. And there is a nuclear map showing the size of the damage.

With Each missile carrying half a dozen warheads, we could expect many more to make it through.

I recently read news that there are fungus in Chernobyl that eat radioactive material and checked with a university friend who lives in the exclusion zone (he is also quite well known scientist) - he said it is nonsense. Well, I am not radiation expert

Fungi adapt well and maybe one does ingest radioactive material and thrive. It's just moving the radioactive material, not destroying or clearing it up.

Meanwhile, I cleared the garage under my house - I will park the car in the garage and sit there with the family, a protection of the house and car body is better than just a house (my garage door is not looking into the direction where the explosion is likely to happen). I have gas masks, respirators , clothing, food and water in the garage, so I can quickly throw them into the car (3 days should be enough)

I suppose it's a thought, but what or who will you eat on day 4 or day 40?

[Omega]

Well, if we put it this way, then, as Private Frazer said in "Dad's Army"... No live can be so good that it couldn't be made worse