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originally posted by: openminded2011
There are few survivors except for roving bands of lawless gangs who will do their worst if they find you.
originally posted by: CJCrawley
a reply to: TrueBrit
Then you are very naive.
We don't even have our own truly independent nuclear deterrent - Uncle Sam's thumb is on it.
We are a geographically convenient missile launch pad, as Russia is only too well aware.
I wouldn't only want to survive I would thrive.
originally posted by: CJCrawley
a reply to: TrueBrit
That is assuming direct assault on the UK with nuclear weapons.
Yes, that is the assumption.
What, you think UK wouldn't be targeted with a combination of UK and US missiles pointing at Russia?
We'd be blitzed and no one would survive.
originally posted by: deviant300
a reply to: TrueBrit
I live close to two cities but as far as I know there is no underground shelters for people in Derby/ Nottingham/Sheffield
as in London they do.
But I understand where your coming from if the case of not getting directly hit. It's most likely we would as we do nuclear warheads so in an exchange of fire we would most likely get one back if not hit first.
Firstly they'll knock out industrial cities I think.a reply to: TrueBrit
en.wikipedia.org...
Threads is a BAFTA award-winning British television drama produced jointly by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. in 1984.[2] Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a docudrama account of nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England.
The primary plot centres on two families, the Kemps and the Becketts, as an international crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts and escalates. As the United Kingdom prepares for war, the members of each family deal with their own personal crises. Meanwhile, a secondary plot centred upon the Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council serves to illustrate the British government's then-current continuity of government arrangements. As nuclear exchanges between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begin, the harrowing details of the characters' struggle to survive the attacks is dramatically depicted.
The balance of the story details the fate of each family as the characters face the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
Threads grossly overestimated the long term effects of radiation on kids. Japan never saw that many mutations as a result of the nukes...