Keep safe everybody

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

What's ironic is that two decades after the end of the Cold War, all the old 1950s and 60s atomic civil defense infrastructure in the US has pretty much gone to seed. The air raid sirens where I live are either rusting in place or have been removed, and the air raid shelters in most local buildings are either sealed off or are used for storage. Most of the fallout shelters signs have been yanked too.

So, if the ICBMs come, I'll be standing in the middle of the street to get it over with as quickly as possible. But, that's what I probably would have done thirty years ago too. Maybe as a nod the modern era, I'll quickly tweet #deadnow.

I would not want me or my loved ones surviving a major nuclear exchange anyway, tbh. Living close to a primary target, is quite attractive, since the fallout from a major exchange would wander around the whole globe and go into the food chain anyway. I am not eager to live through that misery of radiation disease and all that mess, just to die a miserable death at the end.

[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I would not want me or my loved ones surviving a major nuclear exchange anyway, tbh. Living close to a primary target, is quite attractive, since the fallout from a major exchange would wander around the whole globe and go into the food chain anyway. I am not eager to live through that misery of radiation disease and all that mess, just to die a miserable death at the end.

I do sometimes wonder if that's a big part of what has kept the nukes sitting in their silos all these decades. The elites and the powerful might get a nicer hole in the ground (with ample warning) But it's still just a hole in the ground. That's a common dominator they're not used to living with.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Not going to happen!

But I may watch Threads tonight and buy a one way ticket to Sheffield.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Not going to happen!

But I may watch Threads tonight and buy a one way ticket to Sheffield.

A great show for such a low budget

[Aktungbby]

Just to be on the safe side in my '60's shelter under the reinforced patio, I'm stocking up on this ...along with my Spam and Hamm'shttp://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303942404579361111375345976?mg=ren o64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB 10001424052702303942404579361111375345976.html A party animal to the bitter end!

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

I do sometimes wonder if that's a big part of what has kept the nukes sitting in their silos all these decades. The elites and the powerful might get a nicer hole in the ground (with ample warning) But it's still just a hole in the ground. That's a common dominator they're not used to living with.

The Russians drive their arsenal around on trucks, do they not?
We sail ours around on Nuclear Subs.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

The Russians drive their arsenal around on trucks, do they not?
We sail ours around on Nuclear Subs.

Errr...



What's this then?

Or this:



And if you've missed this...you must be blind:

[Wolferz]

LOL Yeah, they do too. We don't haul ours around on trucks. We prefer B-52's and Stealth bombers.

[Oberon]

Don't underestimate the ability to hide a truck mounted ICBM, Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.

Those bastards!!!

No wonder I could not find Pizza Hut.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Don't underestimate the ability to hide a truck mounted ICBM, Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.

Can it be hidden when prepping the bird to fly?

It doesn't really matter anyhow. If they start pushing launch buttons, nearly all of us will be dead, dead, deadski. Even people in remote areas will soon feel the effects of fallout and nuclear winter. Planet Earth will be a fried cinder for centuries to come. It would be an extinction level event. The astronauts on the ISS would survive a little while longer than the rest of us. Until their supplies of food and water ran out. Might as well step outside and push off toward the atmo.

Originally Posted by Wolferz

LOL Yeah, they do too. We don't haul ours around on trucks. We prefer B-52's and Stealth bombers.

That is because saint Ronnie got rid of all yours in exchange for getting rid of some of the Russian ones.

[em2nought]

Dear comrade Putin, if nukes do fly please target them all on the District of Columbia. We the people thank you.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

The Russians drive their arsenal around on trucks, do they not?
We sail ours around on Nuclear Subs.

I believe the Russians still do both.