Are you scared by the thought of Nuclear War?

Honestly, what sort of person wouldn't find a nuclear war scary?

I'm assuming the question is actually 'Are you worried there might be a nuclear war?'. The answer is no.
 
I feel to save my character I need to clarify a few points :p

I'm not a gibbering wreck, few things scare me - unlike some people I know (earthquake anyone :p) I watched threads as a teenager and it did affect me, the bleakness of the film was very hard to cope with as I watched it alone, at night and with no-one to talk to after it had finished. The end of that film is damn bleak!

Anyway, I think the point I'm trying to get at is that I have a mild, not obsessive, interest in the nuclear paranoia culture - I enjoy reading things like Protect and Survive and look at the ignorance in which nuclear weapons were developed with interest. I'm not scared on a day to day basis although I find the consquences of such actions incredibly grim.

It's a fascination rather than a fear I suppose, and wondered if anyone shared it. One person does at least :D :p
 
FiresparkUK said:
Sorry OP but you made me smile with your worries, good job you state dob as 1983, if you had been 18 in 83 like myself and a few othger posters on here you probably wouldnt have made it through.

Seriously while we now have the new threat of the terrorist bomb, as a previous poster wrote the 60's and 70's where cold war time. They really did have "what to do if we get nuked" public information films.

When I was 15/16 we did a play in English at school which was all about a school trip to a goverment/ military bunker, basic story was all the alarms go off, kids and teacher are locked in a room but can hear internal communications and gradually realsie that a nuclear war has started and they are sitting in a bunker while the world burns. We then went on to discuss the various reactions of the characters, cracking up, denial, realisation that everyone else in the bunker was over 30, or that the girls where the only females of child bearing age etc...

Think you might have struggled...

However I am on record as saying in front of freinds that I fully expect to see a terrorist nuke in my lifetime, and I said it in 1991...
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Actually, old timer :p that play sounds very interesting - any idea what it was called?
 
I'll be safe. Leicester is a Nuclear Free Zone so any bombs dropped won't leave Nuclear Waste, same any fallout from bombs dropped nearby, the fallout will miss us completely :D












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Nope.


If a nuke were to come within a 10000 mile radius of me then I will just do a Chuck Norris round house kick to it and send that mother back to the commie state where it came from.
 
I reckon they need to do a big brother where they tell the housemates there has been a nuclear attack, and cease contact with them for a couple of months, would make great tv!
 
Just remembered we read a short story along the same lines at school, I'm sure it was set in Australia though and eventually after a few months they opened the door to the bunker to reveal a scorched earth......however after visiting Brisbane in August I'm sure they had would have had trouble deciding if there had been a war or not. (Queensland has had terrible droughts for the last 2 years)
 
inferno said:
I reckon they need to do a big brother where they tell the housemates there has been a nuclear attack, and cease contact with them for a couple of months, would make great tv!
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No, what would be better is where they don't tell them that we're not under attack, and just blow up the house.
 
inferno said:
I reckon they need to do a big brother where they tell the housemates there has been a nuclear attack, and cease contact with them for a couple of months, would make great tv!
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I like the idea but I don't think you've taken it to the logical conclusion, how about we just nuke Endemol and be done with it - a clear statement that if anyone else comes up with such a rubbish programme again they suffer the same fate.
 
Don't really think about, and not really worried at all. Even the most crazed powers know that any nuclear weapons activity would be far too costly for all. They want to maintain economies, to look after their people; even the biggest 'fundy' just wants to do his job, do his paperwork then go home to his wife and kids, pay packet in hand.

Nuclear war goes against all that.
 
Growing up in West Germany during the late 70's and early 80's (Father was a squaddy) we constantly lived with tangible evidence that the Cold War had the possibility of becoming a 'Hot War'. We used to have to do '3 minute warning' drills at school (about 4-5 a year), see and live through government and military exercises where you weren't allowed on grass areas and woodlands because of Radioactive contamination (not real of course, just part of the exercise). Have the door to your flats banged in the middle of the night to get the squaddies to camp to test military readiness etc.

On the gate outside the guardhouse on every camp was a board showing the current state of alert, this would go up and down depending what the IRA or Warsaw Pact were up to.

Not at anytime however did I think this scares me, probably a mixture of the exuberence of youth and constant exposure to this so called 'threat'.

In reality the only blown up thing I ever saw was a copse of trees after the yanks had managed to land 2 x 155mm HE shells 2.5km outside a live firing range target zone on the Hohne Ranges, luckily no one was hurt.
 
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Such things are not worthy of the stress spent worrying about them in my opinion :)

Certainly don't lose sleep over it! :eek:

Life is for living - don't spend your years worrying about such things or you'll end up a pensioner with a state of the art personal bunker- but no life to actually protect !
 
Back in the early 80's when I were a lad and MAD was all the fashion, of course I was scared. Back then it was a very real threat and when I heard those awful four minute warning sirens being tested it sent a very cold chill up my spine. :( Now? No, because although Russia tries to act all 'ard, it's all for show.

Now, we have scary Muslim terrorists and global warming to keep us all safely brown trousered and paranoid. Nuclear war is so late 20th century.
 
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