If the UK had ever been nuked...

If the UK had ever been nuked...

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Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Sunday 22nd July 2012
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I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.

They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.

When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.

According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!

Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)

I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too! yikes


Hooli

32,278 posts

199 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.

They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.

When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.

According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!

Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)

I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too! yikes
Fist thought in my head as 'When two tribes go to war' dunno what that says about me? hehe

Asterix

24,438 posts

227 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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I used to live near Northwood - that would have been one of the first to be targeted I'd have thought.

SkinnyBoy

4,635 posts

257 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Is it just me, when the limp wristed whiners bleat on about living in fear of "terrorists" do you think "Are you stting me, we watched Threads/Day After in junior school, and lived under the real threat of either being vaporised in nuclear Armageddon or blown to bits by irate irishmen on a constant basis, so shut the fk up!" WHat a change in 30 years ey, I never thought walking through the rubble in Warrington when the IRA bombed it that I would be here now. Kids today have no idea!

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!
we had a weird siren thing on top of my school, pretty much around 1983 or so. It wasn't like that, but I always wondered what it was. I'm sure it was early warning now that you mention it.

Gwagon111

4,422 posts

160 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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When I was about 8, the local early warning siren went off in the village I was living in then. It wasn't a scheduled test, the whole village (and surrounding area) thought it was the real deal. That was not a good feeling.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Gwagon111 said:
When I was about 8, the local early warning siren went off in the village I was living in then. It wasn't a scheduled test, the whole village (and surrounding area) thought it was the real deal. That was not a good feeling.
yikes Feck that for a laugh!

tank slapper

7,949 posts

282 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
I watched an episode of 'Ricks Restorations' recently.

They restore an old cold-war Nuclear attack siren back to fully working order, to be put up as an exhibit outside the Clark County Museum.

When they turn the thing on, and it starts to rotate and wail louder and louder, it sent chills down my spine - brrrrr! I sat there imagining what it would be like to hear it for real. Doesn't bear thinking about.

According to the curator, a lot of these sirens were mounted on top of schools!

Clip here (switch-on is at about 12 minutes in)

I defy you to listen to this, and not be scared too! yikes
How about this one - a hemi V8 powered air-raid siren: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqg4a-Ols8

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Asterix said:
I used to live near Northwood - that would have been one of the first to be targeted I'd have thought.
Doubt it would have really mattered who was first if the projected 30 plus "hydrogen" warheads had hit the SE.



essayer

9,011 posts

193 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Asterix said:
I used to live near Northwood - that would have been one of the first to be targeted I'd have thought.
Heathrow, Strike Command in High Wycombe, Northwood were probably all targets in their own right ..

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Monday 23rd July 2012
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Snowboy said:
I grew up not far from GCHQ.

I remember at school we had an exercise in Geography.

We were all given a map of the surrounding 20 miles or so.
We then had a pair of compasses and a ruler and had to draw concentric circles emanating from GCHQ showing the % chance of death.

Like, within 3 miles it’s 100% death, between 3 and 6 miles it’s 80% death, etc.

We then had to find our own house and the school and work out our % chance of getting killed at home or at school.

You don’t get school lessons like that these days (probably)
3 miles, must have been a small one then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0&fea...




Edited by Mojocvh on Monday 23 July 23:22

Brigand

2,544 posts

168 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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A random find whilst looking at the vids posted here, but as the Yanks had all those missile silos hidden in mock-farmhouses etc, imagine being near one and suddenly seeing this emerge http://youtu.be/eUGxlQo8g8Y

Due to the time it takes the sound to reach the camera, it looks a bit spooky with that giant rocket coming out of the ground in total silence briefly.

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Probably been mentioned already, but The War Game by Peter Watkins is another one worth watching. It has a few hints as to the government's plans for people, and if there was any ever doubt that we are tax-cattle to them then this should dispel it.

hms

164 posts

197 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Late '90/early '91 I was working in Russia, looking at a Bakery with a view to a joint venture, and did a tour of the bakery.
The tour finished with the workers 'tea room', which was a fully fitted out NBC bunker.
The only thing I could think was 'what strategic value was a bakery', and 'If I had seen this a couple of years earlier, I wouldn't be leaving Russia!'
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MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Interesting, when I had to do some searches for a site in Brighton, this was part of the package.



I loved it so much I printed it out for the wall. It has all the road names translated into cyrillic script (but phonetically identical) and strategic sites marked out such as the Police Station, train station and chemical plants (I dread to think). They even have loading figures on bridges so they would know which streets they could roll the T-72s up from the landing craft. From here they would have proceeded all the way up the A23 to London. Terrifying stuff, be great if someone did an alternate reality film about a Soviet invasion during the 80s. The reality wouldn't be quite so great, obviously.

More info here, well worth a read:

http://www.envirocheck.co.uk/envirocheck/content.j...

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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yea just think if we'd been invaded by the russkis!! I mean, lots of shaved-headed, tattooed meatheads beating people up, violence on the streets, corrupt companies manipulating the nation from behind the scenes, everyone getting so pissed they can't stand, horrible modified range rovers and tasteless displays of wealth...........oh

same as UK except they have gorgeous women. Maybe the reality wouldn't be so bad?

WreckedGecko

1,191 posts

200 months

Wednesday 1st August 2012
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Famous Graham said:
I grew up in Pangbourne, Berkshire. Surrounded by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Greenham Common, Didcot power station and Reading.

fked, basically biggrin
I grew up in Tidmarsh, all of 30 seconds away from you. Also fked.

bitchstewie

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50,781 posts

209 months

Wednesday 1st August 2012
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How does our system work if the PM or someone very senior in the military loses the plot?

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Wednesday 1st August 2012
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TheHeretic said:
I should be commander in Chief. I would simply bomb the other guys button. Job jobbed.
I would have simply..

DISALBLED HIS HAND



MEDIC!

AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Wednesday 1st August 2012
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bhstewie said:
How does our system work if the PM or someone very senior in the military loses the plot?
They generally make them a lord.