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Gwagon111
3,381 posts
30 months
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Anyone else remember a BBC drama called 'Threads'? Proper s  t scary  .
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cbcbcb
260 posts
80 months
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TheHeretic
68,270 posts
124 months
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I should be commander in Chief. I would simply bomb the other guys button. Job jobbed.
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TheEnd
12,118 posts
57 months
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King Herald
18,360 posts
85 months
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Gwagon111 said: Anyone else remember a BBC drama called 'Threads'? Proper s t scary . 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. 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....
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williamp
11,272 posts
142 months
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I read soemwhere that we knew we wouldnt last in a nuclear war, so we had to convinve the russians tht our policy was "first strike" -in other words, we would be the ones who pushed the button first, not in response to somone else pushing the button
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robmlufc
2,748 posts
55 months
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RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate would have probably got one dropped on it, largest electronic monitoring station in the world and missile warning site.
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jmorgan
17,018 posts
153 months
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TheEnd said: 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.
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Rotary Madness
2,081 posts
55 months
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robmlufc said: RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate would have probably got one dropped on it, largest electronic monitoring station in the world and missile warning site. And I live 8 miles from there, nice to know id be radioactive slag...
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croyde
8,757 posts
99 months
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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.
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robmlufc
2,748 posts
55 months
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Rotary Madness said: And I live 8 miles from there, nice to know id be radioactive slag... Indeed, there is also RAF Fylingdales out towards Whitby which is part of the National Missile Defense system so I guess us Yorkshire folk wouldnt fair too well!
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Le TVR
2,236 posts
120 months
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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!
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Slough would have been high on the list, cause even the Russians had standards 
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Crossflow Kid
4,631 posts
60 months
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King Herald said: My dad worked at RAF Cosford much of his life, and we lived within nuke fallout range.... ...as did pretty much everyone in the UK when you consider its size.
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eldar
6,996 posts
65 months
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DamienB
721 posts
88 months
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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.
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tmk2
609 posts
77 months
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Haven't got a map but Cornwall could be pretty safe.
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croyde
8,757 posts
99 months
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tmk2 said: Haven't got a map but Cornwall could be pretty safe. Isn't there a big early warning site in Cornwall? Goonhilly a satellite tracking station.
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tmk2
609 posts
77 months
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croyde said: Isn't there a big early warning site in Cornwall? Didn't think of that
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jmorgan
17,018 posts
153 months
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croyde said: tmk2 said: Haven't got a map but Cornwall could be pretty safe. Isn't there a big early warning site in Cornwall? Goonhilly a satellite tracking station. That is small fry when Culdrose is around the corner.
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