How would you survive WW3?

Truffle Pig wrote: »

If WWIII happens there will be no coming back.

The place will be fcuked.

Typical attitude from someone that hasn't got a bunker

Nuclear bomb example Tsar Bomba 100MT Airbrust Donated in 4 location throughout Ireland. Would still leave 30% of the county blast and radiation free.

Belfast of the above bomb would reach Newry.
Dublin Blast would connect with Belfast Bomb.
Cork would reach Southern Tipperary and Limerick.
Galway and Cork blast would connect inside Limerick city.

Also we have to take into effect the wind and radiation rain that would affect the rest of the nation but that can be managed and taken care of. Workable farms would need re plowing and digging all surfaces would needs washing down after each rain shower and daily after heavy winds. Signs would need to be taken down or changed.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

kneemos wrote: »

Doesn't Cork have a deep water port?.
Not sure what's in N . Ireland to warrent a bomb.

Flegs

Degag wrote: »

I'm sure it's just gone over my head but why a 5 year bomb shelter?

Depends on your location e,g if your in the blast radiation radius it would be highly unlikely you would be able to surface from your bunker for a long period of time due to radiation sickness and then death. But if the bomb hit Dublin and you live in North Tipperary after the first couple of rain showers and dust clouds you could start coming up and start stabilizing your area of radiation.

bnt wrote: »

During WW2, Ireland only held on to its much-vaunted neutrality by virtue of its geography and the Nazis' limited resources. That and the fact that there weren't many Jews in Ireland back then. Claiming neutrality didn't do Denmark or the Netherlands much good, did it?

Say the USA went to war with Russia: the USA would soon be operating B-52s and B-1s out of Shannon, which would make it a target.

Don't believe that the Germans were the main threat but more of a British invasion.

“A military governor should be then be appointed for the whole of Ireland with his HQ in Dublin.”

Craigavon also advised distributing propaganda leaflets in Gaelic and English to persuade the Irish that the Celtic regiments were there to defend them.



While Churchill dismissed the proposal by Craigavon, the government later prepared detailed plans for an invasion of southern Ireland.



Field Marshal Montgomery, who was later hailed as a hero for defeating Rommel’s forces in north Africa, noted in his memoirs: “I was told to prepare plans for the seizure of Cork and Queenstown in southern Ireland so the harbours could be used as naval bases.”



The previously classified files, held at the UK National Archives at Kew and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, are published in a new book, Britain, Ireland and the Second World War, by the Scottish historian Ian S Wood.



“British forces could have taken control with very little difficulty, but it would have an absolute gift to the IRA who would have launched waves after wave of guerrilla attacks,” he said. “Occupying Eire would have been an extremely messy and costly undertaking.”



Dr Eamon Phoenix, a political historian at Queen’s University, Belfast, claimed that attempting to “camouflage” a British invasion by using Scottish or Welsh troops would have backfired.



“Many of the Black and Tans, the British auxiliaries sent to suppress Irish independence, were Scots and they had an appalling reputation,” he said.



Although Eire was neutral throughout the war, de Valera provoked fury in London by offering his condolences to the German ambassador in Dublin on the death of Hitler.



The taoiseach had spurned Churchill’s earlier offer of a united Ireland, in exchange for entering the war on the allied side, fearing it would lead to another civil war.



Britain, Ireland and the Second World War is published by Edinburgh University Press.

''http://www.winstonchurchill.org''

Deleted User wrote: »

If I've got the description right, then he's likely referring to David Mitchell? If so, he's anything but a poor comedian.

That's a matter of personal opinion but my point was that it's not a line that you would expect a comedian to be discussing, especially during a show.

murpho999 wrote: »

That's a matter of personal opinion but my point was that it's not a line that you would expect a comedian to be discussing, especially during a show.

I believe the rest of the line was that as he had no marketable skills other than being a panel show member and it would be a couple of hundred years before panel shows would become a thing again, it would be better if he died in the initial attack.

Its funny when david mitchel does it

Give me good old cold war Mutual assured destruction over some nut with a gun states like North Korea and Iran

josip wrote: »

I watched 20 minutes of this before I got suspicious and read the plot on Wikipedia.
Thank fcuk I didn't spend 2 hours of my life watching a movie that's on all the Top 10, "Most Depressing Movie" lists.

It is depressing sh1te alright.

fr336 wrote: »

For such an apparently advanced species it's bemusing that we still appear to be on the cusp of causing ourselves and our planet potentially more destruction than ever before. What a complete bunch of idiots.

As was said by Agent Smith in The Matrix, the human race is a virus.

It's actually quite true. We infest a host (Earth) and slowly destroy it from inside and then when our host dies, we die (unless we can find a new host).

I'd say that's pretty accurate.