Nuclear War! What would you do?

sniperone said:
There was a city 60 miles from the tsar bomb and it has all its windows and doors blown in . People vastly exaggerate nukes and always compare them to the Hiroshima bomb ,yeah it was 6000 times more powerfull or something like that but the doesn't mean 6000 times more damage .
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The device tested was 50Mt I was referring to the theoretical 100Mt - plus test configuration was different to how it would be utilised in a real attack.

But yeah most people vastly exaggerate the power of a single nuclear device (not to underestimate them either).
 
SPG said:
This and only this.

Even if you think you are lucky and get a spot in a goverment shelter due to your work (lots of councils have them) it would not be worth the utter horror to live through after.

The planet would be broken for 1000 years or more.

Life would go on as always but i would not want to be part of that broken world.
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The Aftermath 2012 film is a brutal thing to imagine. Broken world you say if it was to happen? You learn to adapt but hope it would never come to that. A world of Mad Max? Endless wasteland of death. No grass, no trees and no wildlife. Dust lingering for a very long time.
 
Russinating said:
Surely for London the answer is the deepest underground station/line you can get to in the time given?

I live and work in or very near the centre of Bristol so I'm not sure of the danger. North Bristol's factories might get hit (Airbus, Rolls Royce) which are only a few miles away but otherwise not sure what strategic targets there would be other than human. There is a basement at work but doubt that'd do much. There's also some caves under the centre and tunnels under Temple Meads which could be a good bet if they were opened up in this scenario but you'd be stuck down there for some time. Otherwise cycle as fast as I could south into Somerset if I had maybe half an hour plus.

Nitefly, as a fellow Bristolian, where would you go?
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Temple meads is a good shout! If there was a bit more time... head to wales I think. But then there is something worse than the nuclear fallout...

The Welsh :(
 
Russinating said:
Surely for London the answer is the deepest underground station/line you can get to in the time given?

I live and work in or very near the centre of Bristol so I'm not sure of the danger. North Bristol's factories might get hit (Airbus, Rolls Royce) which are only a few miles away but otherwise not sure what strategic targets there would be other than human. There is a basement at work but doubt that'd do much. There's also some caves under the centre and tunnels under Temple Meads which could be a good bet if they were opened up in this scenario but you'd be stuck down there for some time. Otherwise cycle as fast as I could south into Somerset if I had maybe half an hour plus.

Nitefly, as a fellow Bristolian, where would you go?
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Assuming a full on attack against our infrastructure its likely Yeovilton would be a target so would have to avoid that if heading south into Somerset. Depending on wind direction as well possible some drifting fallout across North Somerset from potential use of bunker busting devices and/or maybe stuff like Hinkley Point.

A good bit of Somerset though should be relatively unscathed so probably the best bet in general for escaping in a direction from Bristol.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
I would go to Stoke, when reviewing targets the enemy will assume they have bombed it already.
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Just up the road in Hanley there's a perfect summary of the whole city. Some years back there was a plan to demolish the old bus station and some of the surrounding area and build a huge shopping and entertainment centre. One of the buildings was used to set up an exhibition of what it was going to look like when it was finished. It never even started. The exhibition building is now derelict. The ceiling has fallen in, the place is rotting and a window or two is boarded up. The only useful thing is that the old bus station was partly demolished and now functions as a ramshackle car park. Which is needed because they thoughtfully replaced nearby car parking with a useless area of concrete studded with low mushroom-like things that make for lovely seats...if you like rock hard, wet, dirty seats.
 
If it was contained to just a few cities in the US then, after NK is turned into glass, the worlds economy would take a fair bit of a hit. If it spread to involve the US/UK/Russia/China etc then all those zombie preppers will have a field day while the rest of us die out fairly quickly.

@Angilion Hanley bus station was a write-off ever since Chicos went up in flames in a "not an insurance job" fire. Since then it's been a blight which needs removing, only people who want to keep running out of money!
 
ianh said:
then all those zombie preppers will have a field day while the rest of us die out fairly quickly.
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Some might - far too many have like 50kg of kit in a bag they have no idea half of what is in there or how to use it and a level of fitness that they wouldn't make it 50 yards carrying it :s
 
Nasher said:
Ships are pretty well monitored these days. It wouldn't be easy to get a large ship in without being seen. They do have nuclear material detectors in ports as well afaik.
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not talking about not being seen I mean concede it in a perfectly legitimate ship that has a reason to go to london then as its sailing up the Thames...boom.

doesn't actually need to be in port or anything just on the river far enough into the city
 
Angilion said:
Just up the road in Hanley there's a perfect summary of the whole city. Some years back there was a plan to demolish the old bus station and some of the surrounding area and build a huge shopping and entertainment centre. One of the buildings was used to set up an exhibition of what it was going to look like when it was finished. It never even started. The exhibition building is now derelict. The ceiling has fallen in, the place is rotting and a window or two is boarded up. The only useful thing is that the old bus station was partly demolished and now functions as a ramshackle car park. Which is needed because they thoughtfully replaced nearby car parking with a useless area of concrete studded with low mushroom-like things that make for lovely seats...if you like rock hard, wet, dirty seats.
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You forgot to mention that the new bus station they built, just across the road from the old one, is a.) way too small for the busses to operate safely from, b.) located in a place whereby said busses have to navigate through small winding backstreets to gain entry and to leave and c.) is generally just not fit for purpose.

Local government corruption at it's finest.
 
sniperone said:
There was a city 60 miles from the tsar bomb and it has all its windows and doors blown in . People vastly exaggerate nukes and always compare them to the Hiroshima bomb ,yeah it was 6000 times more powerfull or something like that but the doesn't mean 6000 times more damage .
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so you don't think something w/ the ability to do damage SIXTY MILES AWAY is impressive? consider what was happening 10, 20, 30 and 40 miles away and then look at those distances on a map. Sixty miles away, and it's causing structural damage, and probably a lot of wounds/deaths from shrapel/blunt force trauma from flying glass and doors.
 
sniperone said:
There was a city 60 miles from the tsar bomb and it has all its windows and doors blown in . People vastly exaggerate nukes and always compare them to the Hiroshima bomb ,yeah it was 6000 times more powerfull or something like that but the doesn't mean 6000 times more damage .
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The bomb was specifically detonated in a way not to cause damage (as with all tests).

If you dropped a full size Tsar bomb on the middle of London then the inner city would be vaporised, most buildings inside the M25 would be leveled and most people injured or killed, and everyone east of Newbury and south of Cambridge would suffer third degree burns. You're looking at around six million dead and another six seriously injured. And this doesn't touch on the fallout or nuclear winter.

The reason people compare bombs to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ones is because those were the last ones properly detonated.
 
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