What would you do in the event of a nuclear war?

Would you take shelter? Where? What would you take with you?

Who is fighting who?

Someone else is fighting your country.

I’m not gonna say specifics because then I might get arrested under governmental harrassment.

If someone was in a nuclear war with our country, we’d all be dead in one tiny little blow. The Netherlands aren’t that big. I think I would just sit and wait for the big boom… Not much I could do anyways…

OK, so that was freaky, as soon as I read that post, a huge firecracker went off by us and I jumped a mile.

Anyway, wouldn’t you run? Take pictures? What?

Me? If there was a nuke war, I would rather go away to a place where it’s non-war. Antartica, I suppose.

March with the Penguins?

Well, if I had the time, I would say goodbye to everyone I care about, but besides that, I would just go sit on a chair and listen to the air alarms..

lol, Fuzzy.

In fact…

Might as well take the camera! And anyways, air raid alarms are too loud for meh ears. They sensitive.

i would do everything i wanted to do before i die

If it looked like nuclear war was inevitable I’d move to a different country with my family.

Get to my bomb shelter and polish off Old Betsy.
Seriously though, I’d probably take advantage of the fact that the entire country would probably be plunged into anarchy, steal a car, and raid some stores. Not TV stores or anything, strictly practical stuff like supermarkets or gun stores. ESPECIALLY gun stores. Then, I’d take shelter. I wouldn’t be concerned about the blast (I live in Houston, so the enemies would probably target Washington or New York), so I’d stock up on radiation pills. After that, who knows. Maybe I’d do a reenactment of the Fallout games.

I’d hop into a fridge, like Indy Jones.

I’d laugh because I’m in America. We have more nukes in submarines in the water than any other country has on land. Not to mention we’ve got the capability of taking enemy nukes out while they’re in the sky. So I’d laugh that another country made the fatal mistake of trying to nuke us, then turn on CNN and watch their country turn into a giant parking lot.

Unless we’ve got a magical missile defense system, America would need prior knowledge of an attack in order to defend itself. There are several scenarios that have been discussed and reviewed that show America’s weakness to certain kinds of nuclear attack. There are missiles that reach the stratosphere, and then fall straight down to earth.

Granted I’m in a very low-target area, I’d likely be pretty safe. It’s kind of a bad thing that everyone in America thinks a nuclear attack means the whole country should resort to anarchy. That’d totally make us safe, right. We live in a very large country where even if DC or NY were attacked, we’d still have a great deal of strategic superiority. America could very easily live on after even a very severe attack.

I don’t think Scotland would be major nuke target at the start of this war. I’d pack everything up and move to the highlands and find a nice spot by the coast, build a little cottage, and occasionaly drive back to a city where anarchy will surely have taken place, raid some places – for practical items – like seeds for growing crops back home, and non-pershiable food.

I would also get some radation pills, if there is none in the near vivicinity I would buy it off of eBay. I suppose most people in Britian would flee to the giant bosum of America, where relative safety awaits.

I would steal power from the national power grid, until I had my own power source, and then I would go into the abandoned cities to search for anything I would want.

At all times I would be armed, as in Scotland about every person has a knife, and I wouldn’t want to be in Glasgow during the first weeks of anarchy.

TerrorKovenant, how many nukes do you think we have? First of all, neither the U.S. or Russia have gone along with treaties they signed to reduce their active nuclear force. Second of all Russia has more Nukes and missiles than we do. We have about the same active number(about 5,500), but in total, the U.S. has about 12,500 and Russia has 15,000. Thirdly Russia’s Ballistic missile technology has recently surpassed ours, even though both of us can any country on the planet, their submarine based missiles, have a range of about 7,000 miles to our 6,000. (The UK and France share our range and only have submarine missiles) Last of all, the Typhoon Class SSBN has 20 multi-cluster missiles. These have six warheads that separate in the atmosphere and can each target different locations. While Russia has all this, Nuclear war would also mean conventional war. The only thing Russia has that is as powerfull as it was in the days of the USSR is its nuclear arsenal. The U.S. would destroy Russia’s armies on land, air, and sea. I wanted to tell you this so maybe you wouldn’t take the military supremacy of the United States for granted. If we were at nuclear war with China it would be no problem because they only have 200 nukes. North Korea has <10, and they cant hit us.(not even Hawaii) For anyone else, keep in mind that the only countries that can hit every other country are Russia, China and the U.S. If you live in the middle east Israel can hit you. (except Afganistan) However, if you live in Afganistan, Pakistan, or India, then you could be hit by India or Pakistan. And the detterence patrols of submarines belonging to France and the UK don’t put them where they can reach anything but Europe.Now TerrorKovenant, as TheBSG may have pointed out, we don’t have a magical missile defence system. For some reason development in missile defence is frowned upon. This is because crazy people claim that advancements in anti missile technology would result in renewed missile development. I’ll get to the point of this topic now. If a country was at war with mine, i would move to kansas, because no one would shoot a nuke there.

It always bothers me how invincible people think our country is. “We’re America! Our military is so strong! We rock!” I think very few people realize that there’s a world other than America, and that world is just as “normal” and capable as ours is.

Egg my neighbours house.

I would go to my church where I work and take care of survivors.

Solidus, all I can legally say is… never trust what the American government says about its weapons. All of the stats about our militaristic capabilities are vastly below potential.

Ah! My cam broke! Might as well quit the ice and move to Scotland.

When I get to Scotland, I will immedeatly take a rental utility van to the nearest wood shop and get all that stuff and start building my house, with a shelter just in case. I will be building on the shore, so I’ll build a dock. As soon as the house is done, I’ll buy stuff for the interior and get a boat.

Next, I’ll make a veggie field and plant all that good stuff, and grate it in with wire mesh(so that the animals don’t get it). Every time I went to town, I would have an gun with me, like a Revolver or Glock, and in case of battle I would shoot down at that person’s feet to make em be afraid, allowing me to jump back. But if there was no battle/I prevailed, I would go get my stuff and I’m driving over people who try to hit me with something(Punks…). Then I’d drive home and anyone who tries to raid my house will get a shot in the bosom. And I’ll check my mail by tapping the box, and if something hard and it rolls is in there, I quickly will take it out and throw it in the sea. And THEN I’ll wtch some fireworks.

Listen TerrorKovenant, our current technology is below potential in relative terms compared to what it was in the cold war. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, massive budget cuts were made in defence,small arms development, vehicle development, and almost completly in nuclear weapons. It’s been almost 20 years since a new nuclear weapon has been given serious consideration by our government or military. About all we have now are RRW’s

I would destroy the other country & if that didn’t work then I would hide in a fridge.

if you did that i would laugh. First off, the new Indiana Jones movie was good, except for that part. Did you notice that the car driving away was obliterated much farthur from the blast? You can tell me that it was a lead-lined fridge, which it would have been, but lead blocks radiation, not a heat blast that can level buildings. Now if the fridge had protected him, don’t you think that all the fridges from all the model houses would have been raining from the sky with the one he was in? And best of all, if you ignore all that, no one has made a lead lined fridge if 50 years.