Safest place to be in the event of nuclear war?

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Does anyone have any of those iodine tablets left that the government gave us?

I'll build a table from them and hide under it:)

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Tanzania, them cúnts love their football but hate politics

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Technically: Iceland‡, Isle of Lewis^, Bern, Guam, Capetown*, Antartica^, TrisanDaCunha±, Yukon or Kansas°

‡ Plus: They have too much generational interbreeding, so may welcome fresh seed deposits.
^ Minus: Little or no continuous food sources, apart from 3-head fish supper.
* Minus: Top10 homicide city, imagine it x10 worse.
° Plus: Fertile and spacious lands
± Minus: Language

If it's a full-scale global stick throwing game you're stuffed if situated across the water (they'll be queuing up at ports for boats out).
But Cumbria may fair well according to one tabloid and a cheap place to start a bunker.

Here we go

Savlbard Norway there's a world seed fault that's where I'd go lol it's built to survive a nucualar war and has seeds, of every plant on earth and I presume other things needed to live until one could replant them

Randle P. McMurphy

Wherever you end up it's important to follow these steps.

1. Stay away from any windows.
2. Remove glasses and empty pockets of any sharp objects.
3 Loosen necktie and any restrictive clothing.
4. As soon as you see the blinding light, bend over and place your head firmly between your legs.
5. Then kiss your ass goodbye.

rekluse

Leitrim, always Leitrim.

bear1

Leitrim.
Can't attack somewhere that doesn't exist.

maudgonner

Miaireland wrote: »

The bunker from Unbreakable Kimmy

With Jon Hamm? Nice!

peckerhead

Well judging from this, Canada is pretty fúcked. In fact nowhere really gets away.

Ken.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ great fun to be had with this site.

JohnMarston

Not sure I'd want to be around after a nuclear exchange anywhere near this country. The fallout would make living a misery depending on where was hit where the winds blow afterward.

The movie Threads gave me nightmares about that sort of thing

JohnMarston

mrmoonlight wrote: »

Hide under the kitchen table until it's died down be grand. And dig out the iodine tablets the government issued , they will save you no problem nothing to be worried about!

Hide under a pile of coats, or make your own pillow fort in the living room. And those iodine tabs expired long ago. In fact I think our dog ate them

Mr.Crinklewood

In a cockroaches belly.

PucaMama

If you survive the initial blast (very likely that it won't be near us) your worry should then be surviving the world after the collapse of society. It won't go back to normal.

Avatar MIA

The correct answer is The Sea of tranquility and watch the pretty fireworks - which reminds me ...

PucaMama

JohnMarston wrote: »

Not sure I'd want to be around after a nuclear exchange anywhere near this country. The fallout would make living a misery depending on where was hit where the winds blow afterward.

The movie Threads gave me nightmares about that sort of thing

Threads was a very realistic picture of what it would be like. Very bleak.

lazybones32

All out nuclear war won't happen but an exchange could.

Ireland would be safe from direct attack and we'd be mostly be spared fallout. Air bursts are more effective than ground detonations, unless its a bunker you're aiming at.

Chill out everyone. Pay attention crossing the road, etc. More likely to die there.

PucaMama

PucaMama wrote: »

Threads was a very realistic picture of what it would be like. Very bleak.

Actually watched that about 3-4 days ago (spurred on by a similar thread on here).

Was a good film. Enjoyable and intriguing to watch, but it did get a little lost along the way and wandered a bit far into exaggeration, I reckon.

something like 15 years later people were still going around in gangs shooting looters and the likes

. But up to the 6-12 month mark I'd say it's on the ball.

harry Bailey esq

Mech1 wrote: »

8 letter would be misusage

A perfectly cromulant word.

Are Am Eye

Inside a fridge.

harry Bailey esq

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Inside a fridge.

Beer, food and air conditioning. Yeah man that works for me

PucaMama

lazybones32 wrote: »

All out nuclear war won't happen but an exchange could.

Ireland would be safe from direct attack and we'd be mostly be spared fallout. Air bursts are more effective than ground detonations, unless its a bunker you're aiming at.

Chill out everyone. Pay attention crossing the road, etc. More likely to die there.

What makes you think we will be spared fallout? And if we were society will still collapse because the rest of the world won't be spared.

PucaMama

Deleted User wrote: »

PucaMama wrote: »

Threads was a very realistic picture of what it would be like. Very bleak.

Actually watched that about 3-4 days ago (spurred on by a similar thread on here).

Was a good film. Enjoyable and intriguing to watch, but it did get a little lost along the way and wandered a bit far into exaggeration, I reckon.

something like 15 years later people were still going around in gangs shooting looters and the likes

. But up to the 6-12 month mark I'd say it's on the ball.

It's not exaggerated.

Wibbs

PucaMama wrote: »

It's not exaggerated.

Yeah it was, on a few points. In conflicts without ethnic ingredients things tend to settle down pretty quickly.

Ireland would have some advantages as the current population is fairly small(though would be better if smaller again) and pretty homogeneous currently. We might be able to feed ourselves. The UK say would be utterly fcuked by comparison.


Oh and apparently the Falkland Islands would be spared the most radiation because of winds and ocean currents.

KevIRL

Madagascar obviously. President Madagascar shut down everything

lazybones32

PucaMama wrote: »

What makes you think we will be spared fallout? And if we were society will still collapse because the rest of the world won't be spared.

Because detonating a warhead above a target allows for a larger area to be damaged and reduces the amount of particles that would be irradiated and sent high into the atmosphere, compared to a ground burst.
An exchange between 2 countries is more likely than everyone firing everything at each other. The superpowers don't want tactical exchanges - they wouldn't be superpowers afterwards. USA owes China too much to be nuked by them; USA needs China's money too much to nuke them and so on and so forth
Nukes aren't all tsar bomba's; each missile/rocket has a number of warheads set to a lower yield so 8 targets could be hit by 1 rocket (MIRV's) and they are configured to specific intentions, say, 1to knock out an industrial area, 1 to cripple a financial area like Wall St, 1 for a military airbase, 1to a missile silo etc; many low yield is better than a few big ones.

We would be spared fallout because there wouldn't be an awful amount created in an exchange. There have been over 2,000 detonations of nukes throughout the world. Vast majority of them have been on land. The world hasn't collapsed and we're not eating each others flesh or forgotten how to speak...

Pa ElGrande

Nothing is as it appears in the surface. Regarding nukes from North Korea, the Americans have called the Kims bluff and the regime has backed down knowing they have nothing, resorting instead to posturing by summoning up it's population to the army. They will not be able to maintain this posture for long, winter is coming and the harvest needs to be in. Where this may go is trigger a refugee crisis as North Koreans try to flee over the border to China rather than starve.

A full on nuclear exchange between the USA and Russia would see ICBMs flying over the North pole as the shortest route to target. At the moment both sides are engaged in proxy wars and posturing - Syria, Ukraine, the Baltics. The American posture is being driven by US domestic politics namely the Democrats are in disarray and want to distract from their losses and internal corruption scandals. The neocon arm led by insane senator John McCain are constantly seeking confrontation to justify their positions and maintain defence spending. Both Republicans and Democrats and the Washington establishment are anti president Trump who has tried to appease their defence offence industry by increasing their budget and buy himself time. Trump is an independent candidate who has usurped the power structure to become president and is currently fighting for his survival to prevent being boxed in.


For years is has been acknowledge the most likely place a nuclear exchange is could happen is between India and Pakistan. Israel is also a prime candidate state to use nuclear weapons. Since this is August and the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have just passed remember that America remains the only state to have used nuclear weapons against large population centres and there remains an element within the US military that are convinced that they can win a nuclear exchange with a first strike, these elements are behind Senator McCain, there is another smaller movement within the US military that sees the almost 2 decades long conflict in the middle East as a disaster and wants détente, this is the faction supporting Trump. Hopefully cooler heads prevail and McCain dies soon before he can do any more damage.


Another factor to bear in mind that radiation poisoning will not be cause of death for you in Ireland in the event of a full on nuclear war between super powers, it will be starvation and cold caused by the disruption of trade (primarily oil & gas).

gnarbarian

Duck and Cover!

indeq

All the lads destroying the planet in one way or another are buying up new Zealand.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/silicon-valley-new-zealand-apocalypse-escape

123shooter

Owryan wrote: »

Surely irish neutrality will save us, it'll be like a great be shield over our fair isle. It'll be powered by all the hot air from our looney left that keep invoking it

Nah cause the even more loony left EU are intent on having their EU super army and Irish ports will be home to their western fleet.............So if the cheese monkey lays off launching his new toys for a while, the EU will have threatened Ireland with 'No more money' and Ireland will obey plans for the the EU western fleet to set up home.