Nukes Start Flying, Realistically, What Are We Expected To Do? Do Any Of Us Have a Chance ?

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Kat8844@reddit

Hopefully get vaporised in the initial exchange, wouldn’t know much about it.

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ItsDominare@reddit

get me a BB gun and start shooting radroaches

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Say a quick prayer & duck... It's scary actually as the UK apparently doesn't have sufficient countermeasures for the latest Russian nukes. One such ICBM carries a payload of a few warheads which guide to their targets independently. Basically one rocket could take out a few cities in the Midlands for e.g. in the blink of any eye. From launch one could reach UK in twenty minutes approx. The only defence we have is Russia would know full well this would trigger a very swift reciprocal response from other NATO countries and maybe trigger the Doomsday domino effect.

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Glittering_Copy8907@reddit

> It's scary actually as the UK apparently doesn't have sufficient countermeasures for the latest Russian nukes. There are, essentially, no large scale counter measures for ICBMs and never have been. Every country in the world is essentially entirely vulnerable to them.

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Low-Captain1721@reddit

ICBM countermeasures do exist however they are unreliable especially against a large scale attack

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Glittering_Copy8907@reddit

Yes, that's a way to reword exactly what I wrote!

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Low-Captain1721@reddit

Which are completely useless against latest Russian ICBMs.....

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Glittering_Copy8907@reddit

I'm not quite with you? My point is that at no point in time has any country, including the US and Russia, had any real defence against nuclear missiles. I'm agreeing with you, except to say, it's not a UK thing and it's not a new thing

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Low-Captain1721@reddit

I didn't mean to imply that it was either a new or UK thing, merely examples.... More recent Russian developments merely highlight general inadequacies. Stop going on or I'll have words with Putin and request he launches an ICBM in your general direction (don't count on countermeasures however..) 😂😂

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Ok-Train5382@reddit

Nukes from who? Nukes landing where?

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BibbleBeans@reddit

If we all combined our efforts to obliterate North America I bet it could be great.

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Ok-Train5382@reddit

Not sure what the Canadians or Mexicans have done to deserve this. But I also suspect that the US could fend off/retaliate against the rest of all the world’s nuclear powers together.

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BibbleBeans@reddit

All implies they’re in on it. And channel your inner Farquaad

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grrrranm@reddit

No, you really can't do anything. Thermo nuclear weapons are extremely powerful. But the good news is they're literally irrelevant , because of mutually assured destruction! Firing a nuclear weapon is suicide to the nation that fired it!

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TheAprilGoal@reddit

Get in the bathtub and stick a mattress on top of yourself (do NOT fill the bathtub)

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FluffyBunnyFlipFlops@reddit

DO fill the bath tub. You're going to need water if the taps stop flowing.

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zone6isgreener@reddit

It'll dilute all the baked beans though.

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

I've painted my tactical fallout shed white and stored 37 tins of beans, 4 boxes of teabags and a packet of strawberry Angel Delight in there so I'm gonna be fine.

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EvilTaffyapple@reddit

> Strawberry Angel Delight I’d rather get nuked

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Crazy-Condition-8446@reddit

I was told years ago, if a massive nuclear explosion happened, walk into the light. Best to be obliterated than survive the devastating injuries.

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JackHardy182@reddit

Go to Australia who would be like WTF? But they'll soon be dead.. fucking kangaroos

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FluffyBunnyFlipFlops@reddit

Is fucking the kangaroos mandatory?

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CmdretteZircon@reddit

Somewhere out there is a meteor about to turn around and say ‘fuck that’

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Mail-Malone@reddit

According to leaflets sent to every home in late 70’s, maybe early 80’s, when you get the four minute warning you get under the kitchen table and you’ll be fine.

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Commercial_Reward_78@reddit

I haven’t hoovered for ages. Never mind the threat from radioactive fallout… I’d suffocate from all the fluff under there.

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sennalvera@reddit

I've watched Threads. My plan for nuclear armageddon is to ensure I die in the initial blasts.

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gazchap@reddit

My plan is to look at the mushroom cloud with shock, raise my hand to my gaping maw, and then piss myself. _Technically_ I think I should get a sex change first, though.

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JRingo1369@reddit

Duck and cover.

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ImpressiveGift9921@reddit

Jump 200ft in the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.

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JRingo1369@reddit

So, these mushrooms must belong to the man who made the map.

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another_online_idiot@reddit

Go to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this whole thing to blow over.

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JRingo1369@reddit

Don't forget hog lumps. They'll survive.

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Blandiblub@reddit

Threads is still available on iPlayer (about another 3 months). Threads: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02kgkkg via @bbciplayer

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cannontd@reddit

There's no upside to a nuclear exchange. There's no small nuclear war either. A nuclear weapon detonated in the upper atmosphere would destroy almost all electrical infrasturture and send us back to the stone age. I wouldn't worry about what the government would do, they wouldn't exist in any meaningful format after a strike.

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Flat_Development6659@reddit

An EMP doesn't destroy all electrical equipment and one caused by a nuke doesn't even cover a very large area, it wouldn't send us back to the Stone Age.

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JasonVoorhees3@reddit

Go to the Winchester until it all blows over

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SP4x@reddit

Keep calm and carry on.

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JasonVoorhees3@reddit

The English way.

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MrMonkeyman79@reddit

You have two main options. Vaporise in the blast or slowly die of radiation poisoning during the subsequent nuclear winter. If you're far enough away from any blasts, and you habe several months of supplies in your house and don't ever open doors or windows then you might have a chance, but I wouldn't count on it.

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GrizCuz@reddit

Having been exposed to Threads at school. I'm trying to get as close to where one's getting detonated as possible. I've no interest in surviving, probable radiation sickness, struggling to find food and water, the constant threat of violence from other survivors. None of that sounds like something I'd want to survive just for existence's sake. Ideally, I'd want to become a fine mist in milliseconds!

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North-Setting-7340@reddit

grab bag at the rdy ... i'll be going to the tip of Scotland bow's arrows swords and axes .. :P

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alrightstrykah@reddit

Relax and be yourself.

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FilofaxB@reddit

Get as close to the blast as possible. I am not living in a post apocalyptic world, especially as a woman.

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AimeLeonDon1@reddit

There is no what would you do. You’d either die on impact or you’d die a slower death. Failing that, you’ll eventually die from the lack of food, water and shelter. People don’t understand how devastating a nuclear bomb would be. It would be the end of life as we knew it and send us back to the stone ages.

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Anubis1958@reddit

Put a paper bag over my head and crouch under the table. There, sure that will keep me safe.

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ItsAllABitShit@reddit

Hunker down for a nice long nuclear winter.

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W51976@reddit

I watched Threads in 1984. Horrible film. Also watch A Guide to Armageddon on YouTube. It was a QED episode from 1982, and shows you what happens to London in a nuclear strike.

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ed_cnc@reddit

I shall challenge Connor McGregor to a fight

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cgknight1@reddit

>What would you do ? Well... die? In your scenario of "nukes start flying" - sure you might be one of the unlucky who survives the first round of a nuclear to what end? Our modern economy and food production cannot be switched off and given what we have modelled about Nuclear Winter, you would be starving quite soon. I'm close enough to a target of strategic importance that I have nothing to worry about - I'll be turned into glass in the first wave.

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nonotthereta@reddit

Get in the fridge until it all blows over.

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clbbcrg@reddit

Get back to work

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Ryledra@reddit

You might survive in some of the deeper tube stations… until the lack of food/water kicks in

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Gryeg@reddit

Winchester and a cold pint seems to be the appropriate response and wait for it to all blow over!

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LidgetTheMidget@reddit

Get as close to it as possible so im hopefully not in the slow painful death zone

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No_Earth_5912@reddit

Climb a palm tree

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roddz@reddit

Strike a cool pose against a white wall

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matthewscott-dev@reddit

Not a lot, unless you've got some way to disarm a nuke that's already in the air.

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Active-Strawberry-37@reddit

Based on the last crisis: Stock up on toilet paper.

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