If the UK had ever been nuked...
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This makes very interesting reading on the topic of nuclear strategy.
http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/faqs/nuclear_warf...
http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/faqs/nuclear_warf...
http://homepage.mac.com/msb/163x/faqs/nuclear_warf...
http://www.envirocheck.co.uk/envirocheck/content.j...
look down the right hand side for some links to Soviet Cold war map PDFs
look down the right hand side for some links to Soviet Cold war map PDFs
Gwagon111 said:
Anyone else remember a BBC drama called 'Threads'? Proper s
t scary 
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I think I remember that, the Russians bomb the UK and it shows how a group of people 'survive' afterwards, scenes in hospitals with no anaesthetic, no electric, no medicines. t scary .People start scraping a living out of radiation dust covered fields after a few months, generally miserable and horrible existence.
That was enough to put the willys up me about surviving a nuke attack. My dad worked at RAF Cosford much of his life, and we lived within nuke fallout range....
TheEnd said:
http://www.envirocheck.co.uk/envirocheck/content.j...
look down the right hand side for some links to Soviet Cold war map PDFs
That was interesting when the story came out. Obviously we had less info on our OS maps, but they had mapped the lot. Hazards, where tanks can go etc. Don't know what they thought the real chances of a T72 in Swansea but what the heck, lets plan it just in case. Get the spies out there and ,measure up and find out where it would not be a good idea to shoot.look down the right hand side for some links to Soviet Cold war map PDFs
Much older than 'Threads' was 'War Game' at least I think that was the title. It was shown to us at school in the 70s.
We were convinced back then that it would happen and then it was AIDS, SARS, Swine Flu, Ebola, comets from space, world terrorism and the list of stuff to scare the populace goes on.
We were convinced back then that it would happen and then it was AIDS, SARS, Swine Flu, Ebola, comets from space, world terrorism and the list of stuff to scare the populace goes on.
ground crew 1 Group said:
Someone mentioned about shooting survivors with radiation sickness. Radiation didn't come into it. During NBC I was allocated to the shooting and cremation group. The medics were to classify all survivors as uninjured, walking injured or incapacitated.
Those in the first two groups were to be formed into working parties for forced labour.
The latter group were to be taken away and shot.
One bullet behind the right ear using a 9 mm Browning Hi-Power.
We were also trained in the art of burning all the bodies - how to stack them with the right air gaps for oxygen feed, proportion of wood to human remains etc. Burning bodies in the open isn't as easy as it seems and the authorities didn't wish to waste petrol. [Unusually for a service training course, we weren't allowed to take notes. I wonder why?!?] Maybe that's still the plan - I don't know if there is one anymore, now that the bunkers are open for public inspection. The daft thing that should have been staring 'them' in the face was that none of us was going to survive to carry out the plan anyway - we were the bloody first strike targets ourselves for Christ's sake!
Those in the first two groups were to be formed into working parties for forced labour.
The latter group were to be taken away and shot.
One bullet behind the right ear using a 9 mm Browning Hi-Power.
We were also trained in the art of burning all the bodies - how to stack them with the right air gaps for oxygen feed, proportion of wood to human remains etc. Burning bodies in the open isn't as easy as it seems and the authorities didn't wish to waste petrol. [Unusually for a service training course, we weren't allowed to take notes. I wonder why?!?] Maybe that's still the plan - I don't know if there is one anymore, now that the bunkers are open for public inspection. The daft thing that should have been staring 'them' in the face was that none of us was going to survive to carry out the plan anyway - we were the bloody first strike targets ourselves for Christ's sake!
Zaxxon said:
Slough would have been high on the list, cause even the Russians had standards 
the Russians had obviously read Betjeman...http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html
http://www.atomica.co.uk is another site worth a look.
To amuse/horrify yourself, take a map of the UK, plot the expected targets - limit yourself to large military sites (barracks, airfields, dockyards) and cities if you like - now overlay the zones of immediate destruction around them based on expected megatonnage, then overlay fallout plumes based on prevailing winds. Now tell me which county in the UK has any significant areas that are free of both bomb damage and fallout.
To amuse/horrify yourself, take a map of the UK, plot the expected targets - limit yourself to large military sites (barracks, airfields, dockyards) and cities if you like - now overlay the zones of immediate destruction around them based on expected megatonnage, then overlay fallout plumes based on prevailing winds. Now tell me which county in the UK has any significant areas that are free of both bomb damage and fallout.
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