Irelands chances in Nuclear War

DazMarz · 06-08-2012 03:47AM

My contingency plan for such an event consists of a bottle of painkillers, a bottle of vodka, a cigarette and a deckchair.

Go out, watch the sky turn that lovely blood red colour, admire the mushroom cloud while having a smoke, and start popping pills washed down with a nip of vodka. Just slip off into the wonderful world of an overdose while pissed. No mutation for me!

helimachoptor · 06-08-2012 03:50AM

zenno wrote: »

Irelands chances in nuclear war would be the worst, I.E.. the fallout from britain waxed across the easterly winds with your hair falling out and finger-nails and the rest of you so we would have it really bad. To be honest if a nuclear war did happen on a major scale i'd rather the damn thing land on my head or close to it. I don't like the 'falling to pieces part'.

I seen all those tv warnings in the 70's, how we managed to make it this far I don't know, but we did.

An intelligent comment came from Ronald Reagan in the 80's regarding a situation of being attacked or if a malevolent force or peoples from outside our planet decided to attack us then all countries on earth would form together as one to fight the offender. I think this is what it will take for asshole governments around the world to form a peace alliance with other nations/states.

Honesty as sad as it is this is probably humanities only chance of proper survival (presuming we won) every country is so focused on the gathering of resources for their people until they need to realise its for humanity and not issuance American Chinese etc then were fcucked

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 06-08-2012 03:55AM

I'd say it'd be robbed by joyriders before it gets close enough to detonate.

entropi · 06-08-2012 04:14AM

DazMarz wrote: »

My contingency plan for such an event consists of a bottle of painkillers, a bottle of vodka, a cigarette and a deckchair.

Go out, watch the sky turn that lovely blood red colour, admire the mushroom cloud while having a smoke, and start popping pills washed down with a nip of vodka. Just slip off into the wonderful world of an overdose while pissed. No mutation for me!

Once your back is to the initial impact, you can watch that lovely cloud afterwards. Your retinas will be burned off otherwise. Then you can just kick back, and enjoy the show.

I think I'll watch Threads tomorrow, sure why not.

FanadMan · 06-08-2012 05:08AM

Who really cares? If there was a nuclear war between the US and Russia, we'd all be dead or else dying. Once those bombs start flying it's time to hug a loved one, jump on a man/woman you fancy.....or if you're like me, just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. If the explosion doesn't get you, the fallout or the endless nuclear winter will.

Try reading "Down to a Sunless Sea" by David Graham. Was written in 1979 but still so scary.

Or watch When the Wind Blows.....made me cry when I saw it as a kid

de5p0i1er · 06-08-2012 05:14AM

Knock Airport is one of the biggest runways in Europe, They'd probably nuke that too.

AlmightyCushion · 06-08-2012 05:36AM

de5p0i1er wrote: »

Knock Airport is one of the biggest runways in Europe, They'd probably nuke that too.

You're thinking of Shannon airport, it's about 3.2KM long. Knock is only about 2.3KM long. You can land pretty much anything at Shannon, it was even an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle.

Eggonyerface · 06-08-2012 09:37AM

If I remember correctly the iodine tablets had a use by date that's long passed by now?

fasttalkerchat · 06-08-2012 09:41AM

The RA will sort us out with a few nukes.

Hande hoche! · 06-08-2012 09:47AM

Eggonyerface wrote: »

If I remember correctly the iodine tablets had a use by date that's long passed by now?

Yep the ones we were sent have an expiry date of March 2005.

Jester252 · 06-08-2012 09:49AM

Can't wait for Fallout New Crumlin

Mr Benevolent · 06-08-2012 09:52AM

Ah, an 80's timewarp has opened up. Hello there pasties!

nyarlothothep · 06-08-2012 10:51AM

ATOMIC1 wrote: »

Yes I love that movie, scary... here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg

Good watch, highly recommended

I just watched a few bits from it and I'm already depressed, yeesh.

Sunnyisland · 06-08-2012 10:59AM

To bring us up to date, We imo be more likely of a nuclear fallout from a Terrorist attack on Britain than an attack on our powerful country here, No one would dare attack us,sure doesn't everyone love us.

previous user · 06-08-2012 11:20AM

finally get rid of the junkie scum.

ejmaztec · 06-08-2012 11:37AM

KeithM89 wrote: »

Mod:
Re-reg Banned

... and like him, we'll be gone in a flash!

Mr.Crinklewood · 06-08-2012 11:46AM

We'll getting nuked, most of us will be dead or dying,but we'll start a chorus of The Fields of Athenry and will forget about being dead or our impending death.

Biggins · 06-08-2012 12:41PM

ATOMIC1 wrote: »

I suspect that a kiloton weapon would be used on Dublin in terms of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the USA and a megaton yield used on Shannon, it being a conduit for US troops. Overall though Ireland would escape much blast damage, the skies may go black for decades and judging that the wind only blows from the east in country a couple of times a year, fallout from the destroyed UK would be minimal....

These are my thoughts

Dublin don't need to be bombed. If England gets it and the wind is blowing our direction at any stage, we're done.
Radiation clouds (= rain), spreading the ash of a burned England and all of Ireland soil alone is fcuked!
No food, eventually we starve and/or die of radiation poisoning from eating polluted goods.

Add to the fact that Windscale/Sellafield is probably a primary target just 90 miles away from our East coast and it is game over!

Border-Rat · 06-08-2012 12:46PM

Ireland would get nuked because it is partitioned. Less than fun fact for west britons!

Hande hoche! · 06-08-2012 01:15PM

Border-Rat wrote: »

Ireland would get nuked because it is partitioned. Less than fun fact for west britons!

I doubt it some how. As mentioned before our airports could make us a target.

marshbaboon · 06-08-2012 01:19PM

How could America nuke us? They probably couldn't even point out where we are on a map.

cloud493 · 06-08-2012 01:23PM

Anyone see that Raymond Briggs thing about nuclear war? Scared the jebus out of me that did.

Hande hoche! · 06-08-2012 01:25PM

No haven't seen it. Threads is unsettling enough.

cloud493 · 06-08-2012 01:26PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9aHT-IlkHo

hal9000 · 06-08-2012 01:27PM

wait what, I thought we were already in nuclear winter......have you not seen this summer!

Hande hoche! · 06-08-2012 01:28PM

Thanks for that cloud493. Will watch it when I get a chance.

bodice ripper · 06-08-2012 02:04PM

ATOMIC1 wrote: »

These are my thoughts

that might be a little kind...

Capt'n Midnight · 06-08-2012 02:15PM

Eggonyerface wrote: »

If I remember correctly the iodine tablets had a use by date that's long passed by now?

What they didn't tell you was that potassium is radioactive.

KI is not OK

Capt'n Midnight · 06-08-2012 02:22PM

Biggins wrote: »

Add to the fact that Windscale/Sellafield is probably a primary target just 90 miles away from our East coast and it is game over!

why would a waste processing plant be a target ?

Airports, Baldonnel and larger airfields
Major Ports
Oil storage and handling
landing points for fibre optic cables

secondary targets if not a quick war would be the places like intel in Dublin and the petrochemicals/pharm in Cork

Grayson · 06-08-2012 04:48PM

Don't forget Killybegs. It's one of the largest deep sea ports in europe. By large I mean the actual bay, not the town. Apparently you can park an aircraft carrier there.

Irelands chances in Nuclear War

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