Could Britain Survive A Nuclear War?

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  • Опубликовано: 10 апр 2024
  • With the development of the atomic bomb, questions arose about how mankind could survive the existence of such a weapon, and what a war where they're used would look like. With the development of the hydrogen bomb, these questions were answered - mankind could not survive the use of such a weapon, and a war where they're used would mean oblivion.
    This video looks into how the UK government perceived nuclear war breaking out - and how it intended to counter this damage.
    This is one of the strangest videos I've ever made - I like to focus on the history of the Imagined - less the stuff that actually occurred, and more the stuff that people perceive had occurred. Nuclear war is, by necessity to us, a thing which we can only imagine.
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Комментарии • 1 тыс.

  • @StOrMmaGiiKz
    @StOrMmaGiiKz 17 дней назад +958

    britain can't even survive 2 inches of snow for 24 hours there's your answer

    • @baggyboo
      @baggyboo 17 дней назад +29

      You beat me to it… it seems you know the uk well 😂😂

    • @Mark-cd3vd
      @Mark-cd3vd 17 дней назад +15

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 to true

    • @baggyboo
      @baggyboo 17 дней назад +19

      We shouldn’t laugh though as unfortunately it is the truth 🥺

    • @andykeating791
      @andykeating791 17 дней назад +8

      Ha ha ha

    • @grahamfisher5436
      @grahamfisher5436 17 дней назад +10

      And those folks who think the radiation fallout
      Would just be like a snowstorm..!!! -
      All be cleared completely away in a couple of weeks
      Lar dee dar dee doooo

  • @richardmillican7733
    @richardmillican7733 16 дней назад +207

    Britain's leaders couldnt organise a shopping list with 3 items on it!!!

    • @paulhemingway9149
      @paulhemingway9149 15 дней назад +4

      Yes,
      Look after ourselves.

    • @RichardFrost800
      @RichardFrost800 13 дней назад

      well they organised alcohol and takeaways to downing street during lock down

    • @johnbeautyman2055
      @johnbeautyman2055 12 дней назад +4

      It would be a miracle if they could organise a shopping list with 2 🤣🤣

    • @johnbeautyman2055
      @johnbeautyman2055 12 дней назад +1

      And in Rishi Sunak case it would consist of Maryland cookies and cakes 🤪🤪

    • @lyndonwatkins1
      @lyndonwatkins1 12 дней назад +1

      I wouldn’t employ them as clowns in a circus tent as they would make bad decisions

  • @richardlongmore9301
    @richardlongmore9301 16 дней назад +121

    The last people that should be saved are the politicians

    • @susanmitchell4744
      @susanmitchell4744 7 дней назад +11

      ...and the Royal Family.

    • @williamtp3717
      @williamtp3717 7 дней назад +2

      as he said, there would need to be some sort of leadership. i fully agree with you though

    • @richardlongmore9301
      @richardlongmore9301 6 дней назад

      @@williamtp3717 we are led by people that have been compromised financially to ensure the destruction of our race for short term financial gains

    • @cr940
      @cr940 День назад +1

      In today's age? Make the rules... Create an AI administrator... Get rid of government and royalty... Ideally all religion aswell

    • @richardlongmore9301
      @richardlongmore9301 День назад +2

      @@cr940 yep 👍

  • @MI7DJT
    @MI7DJT 17 дней назад +318

    Most of the UK couldn't survive the internet going out for a day.

    • @bringmeblueskies
      @bringmeblueskies 13 дней назад +6

      one high altitude blast over uk the emp would be devastating no tv no internet most cars not working no banking power cuts

    • @captainchaos1741
      @captainchaos1741 13 дней назад +2

      That goes for every western country though

    • @TheGameGuy2024
      @TheGameGuy2024 12 дней назад +1

      The US couldn't handle it for 3 Hours

    • @xx_sugarcube_xx8170
      @xx_sugarcube_xx8170 9 дней назад +1

      Any country could survive without internet what do you mean by that, i don’t understand your point?

    • @xx_sugarcube_xx8170
      @xx_sugarcube_xx8170 9 дней назад +1

      It would make communication between countries harder but it goes the same for any country?

  • @theorangeoof926
    @theorangeoof926 17 дней назад +126

    If you’ve ever watched the movie Threads, you’d realise no amount of preparation would ready society for the shakeup of a nuclear war.

    • @mkdy218
      @mkdy218 16 дней назад +11

      A truly frightening film ....

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +4

      Get plenty of baked beans in. You’ll be fine.

    • @theorangeoof926
      @theorangeoof926 16 дней назад

      @@DerekLangdon Have fun subsistence farming with no access to medicine, scant electricity with a draconian government threatening to collapse at any moment with no prospect of recovery in the future, dealing with illiterate kids that may be irradiated

    • @frazerguest2864
      @frazerguest2864 16 дней назад +8

      I had to watch Threads at school aged 10. Being born and raised in Sheffield, it gave me nightmares for weeks.
      To this day, I still wouldn’t watch that film again.

    • @DavidHickey-yu8jh
      @DavidHickey-yu8jh 15 дней назад +6

      @frazerguest2864 Same here. Made the mistake of watching it on brit box. Thought it would probably be a bit tame by now. Man I was wrong. Stirred up some childhood fears 😨

  • @chili_phil
    @chili_phil 17 дней назад +168

    In the 80s, they made us watch "When the Wind Blows" at school, a cartoon about an old couple when the bombs dropped. It gave us all nightmares, we were younger than 10 years old at the time.

    • @stephenhardy312
      @stephenhardy312 17 дней назад +42

      'Threads' was traumatic to watch too.

    • @thecreepycockney
      @thecreepycockney 17 дней назад +15

      Came here to say the same. I went to a boarding school where every teacher was an armchair general. We were forced to watch Threads at the age of 10 and then write an essay on how we could survive. Needless to say it was a shit school...

    • @CraigJukes
      @CraigJukes 17 дней назад +19

      YES Yes they fecking did...1991 for me. I was 5 at the time and that movie still to this day haunts me. I used to live in Southampton, we still have our old air raid sirens at the docks, One morning they were going off (routine fire drills) which we didn't know about, it was during the time when Sadam threatened to nuke the UK. The sirens were blaring, I stopped my teacher and said LISTEN... He made us leave the room and get into the pipe room downstairs. To this day I will never forget.

    • @chili_phil
      @chili_phil 17 дней назад +8

      @@CraigJukes Way too young to put kids through stuff that might not actually happen in the first place!!! Adults, yes, kids, hell no! Especially 5!!!!

    • @michaelflatters3293
      @michaelflatters3293 16 дней назад +15

      Just got over the trauma of that and hit our teens and then we were told we would all die of aids if we so much as thought about having sex… that’s why boomers dgaf anymore

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard 14 дней назад +21

    Britain might survive a nuclear war, but I would make it my mission to ensure none of the politicians or military leaders that led us into it did.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 4 дня назад

      I greatly dislike the present crop of politicians in Britain. I'm also well aware of the gund-ho martial attitudes of the British. However, I think it is unlikely they would lead you into such a war. They well know what the consequences of such a war would be for Britain as we have seen outlined above. Not to mention their families. If you haven't seen a little movie called 'Threads' I recommend it for showing just a little of the horror of a nuclear attack. I would suggest you might like to have a stiff drink before, during and probably after. Even if you don't drink ...
      Grim with a capital 'G'.

    • @bal20
      @bal20 2 дня назад

      It wouldn't be the UK leading us into a nuclear war it would be Putin if anyone

    • @heyitsmetrousers4399
      @heyitsmetrousers4399 16 часов назад

      Yeah good luck with that one superman

  • @MrSambollet
    @MrSambollet 17 дней назад +104

    A mad rush on toilet paper again.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +3

      Man up pal! You can use newspaper like they did in WW2.

    • @ladychatelaine697
      @ladychatelaine697 15 дней назад +1

      😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🙃👍🙋‍♀️🇬🇧

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy 15 дней назад +6

      @@DerekLangdon blocks your loo, we don't have the old thunder flushers anymore

    • @standalby6949
      @standalby6949 14 дней назад +1

      They was literally 💩 theirselves 😂

    • @dwynnell
      @dwynnell 13 дней назад

      Lived and worked in south-east Asia for years. They favour, what I like to call ‘the bum gun’. The purpose of this device is to clean yourself with a high pressure, trigger activated, hose. Works like a charm. I’ve installed them everywhere I’ve lived and have received many compliments from house guests.

  • @cdub5033
    @cdub5033 16 дней назад +23

    it’s a plan which doesn’t include civilian survival. it’s cheaper.

  • @mcshamus6849
    @mcshamus6849 15 дней назад +14

    The best scenario for the average person is to be at the point of impact.

  • @weerobot
    @weerobot 17 дней назад +72

    The Only Plan...We All Die...

    • @Lee_303
      @Lee_303 17 дней назад

      The plan is, HOW we die. It's better to go when completely out of it.

    • @deangelisdata
      @deangelisdata 15 дней назад +1

      i think i'd be alright

    • @theotheseaeagle
      @theotheseaeagle 11 дней назад

      @@deangelisdata same just stay in a bunker for a few years with provisions until the nuclear winter passes and the fallout settles. After awhile it would just become like the Chernobyl exclusion zone, there are still some people that live in the exclusion zone contrary to popular belief just not many

    • @contentcop6531
      @contentcop6531 День назад

      ​@@theotheseaeagleno, you won't be okay even with that

  • @pajeetkumar1645
    @pajeetkumar1645 20 дней назад +43

    *This could be the answer to all the UK governments problems.*

    • @HappyBear376
      @HappyBear376 17 дней назад +5

      The reistigation of the Trason act which Tony Blair repealed would keep us safe.

    • @iandennis7836
      @iandennis7836 16 дней назад

      ​@@HappyBear376I'm going to charitably assume that you meant the reinstigation of the treason act......it would CERTAINLY please the likes of Jackoff Reeks o Smeg et al.......right up to the point where a citizens kangaroo court found HIM guilty of treason and had him executed 😂

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc 16 дней назад +3

      Don't tempt them!

    • @jamesduffy7549
      @jamesduffy7549 12 дней назад +1

      @@HappyBear376 which treason act? 1351 still exists. I believe the treason act 1708 was last amended in 2018 (a decade after Blair left office)

  • @bryandepaepe5984
    @bryandepaepe5984 16 дней назад +10

    The preppers seem to think prepping will matter after but it will just buy them a little extra time of suffering before they run out or are overrun by other survivors. Did they not learn how people will react in a crisis from the toilet paper shortage?

    • @andrewjackson8089
      @andrewjackson8089 16 дней назад +3

      Preppers will be standing there with their gold coins wondering why they can’t buy bread🤦‍♂️

  • @DiscoDougify
    @DiscoDougify 15 дней назад +45

    As a Brit myself, I know that our nation couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag. So, we have zero hope in a nuclear exchange. Our once great nation died after WWII.
    If you want a close representation of what nuclear war in Britain looked like, watch the movie 'Threads' 1984.

    • @duncanspiers8855
      @duncanspiers8855 11 дней назад +3

      Dang! We've been training the troops how to escape from paper bags for the last two decades. You surely don't think that our current strategy is wrong, do you?

    • @mikeycoyne8336
      @mikeycoyne8336 9 дней назад +1

      Our handful of tik tok addicted troops

    • @501sqn3
      @501sqn3 4 дня назад

      Very sadly have to agree 😢

  • @HerpilyDerp86
    @HerpilyDerp86 17 дней назад +162

    If you get a warning theres a nuclear weapon aimed at your location, you are 100% better off being turned to a shadow on the ground than living through the apocolypse on the other side...

    • @andyf4292
      @andyf4292 17 дней назад

      you want the real horror? you don't get vapourized. you get horrific burns, as if you'd been dropped on molten bronze- the blast wave then throws your smoldering corpse far away- probably in pieces. the mark on the ground is where the heat didn't hit.

    • @davidmccann9811
      @davidmccann9811 16 дней назад +10

      Back in 1970s my dad used to say that if there is a nuclear attack from the USSR, he will not be taking shelter.

    • @Plebzzz
      @Plebzzz 16 дней назад +10

      someoens gotta stick around though.. I dont mind being that guy

    • @mohammedmir777
      @mohammedmir777 16 дней назад

      You will be the "stick"that will be around after the atomic attack. 😂😂😂​@@Plebzzz

    • @brekgar89
      @brekgar89 16 дней назад

      exactly the only ones that should be sweating nukes are the ones that think they own this planet,

  • @colinlea2377
    @colinlea2377 15 дней назад +20

    The planet wont survive nuclear war

    • @truthhertz10
      @truthhertz10 10 дней назад +3

      Yeah like wtf hydrogen bombs are just so overpowered man, I don't understand how such a thing could even be built.
      And it's CHEAPER than an A bomb.
      That's like a Ferrari being cheaper to make than a Golf lol

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 4 дня назад

      No, the biosphere largely won't.

  • @JM-The_Curious
    @JM-The_Curious 16 дней назад +10

    I know it's stupid as I personally wouldn't survive it, but I am angry about the decommissioning of the bunkers and regional plans. The bunkers should store things like iodine tablets plus all the knowledge bases possible in science, medicine, history, agriculture and animal husbandry, etc to give survivors the best chance.

  • @michaelkiddle3149
    @michaelkiddle3149 17 дней назад +11

    Bunkers are useless when you come out. There will be nothing for you.

  • @wearenotalone22
    @wearenotalone22 16 дней назад +104

    The UK's plan will be simple.
    Save select politicians, the mayor of London, the King and some select billionaire's.
    After that not a damn will be given!

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy 15 дней назад +16

      charlie big ears will be king of f,k all when he crawls out

    • @taffingtonboathouse5754
      @taffingtonboathouse5754 13 дней назад +3

      Sausage fingers

    • @samanthabarry5817
      @samanthabarry5817 12 дней назад

      If we the people can’t be saved it’s sickening to think that the government and elites will be one thing I can say Sunak you try and drag us down with this propaganda bear in mind you and your government will come with us

    • @rnw8gaming322
      @rnw8gaming322 11 дней назад

      @@spudspuddyprobably be dead by them

    • @truthhertz10
      @truthhertz10 10 дней назад +4

      Codswallop, Ronnie Pickering will be among the survivors you watch

  • @vicarious7858
    @vicarious7858 17 дней назад +31

    I work at Drakelowe ( now a museum ) and I can honestly say having to live down there for an extended period of time would not be fun. If you stand still for a while, the cold gets into your bones.

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy 15 дней назад +1

      underground is supposed to be body temperature, underground caves are not cold

    • @paulozz7384
      @paulozz7384 15 дней назад +1

      Would a atom bomb not be a bit worse than a chill ?

    • @markavons3400
      @markavons3400 14 дней назад +1

      Living in any bunker for an extended period would aslo require you take vitamin D tablets like submariners

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад

      @@spudspuddy Depends where you are in the world and the geology. ROC bunkers were a very steady 7 deg C, no matter what the surface conditions were. A few humans will also raise the air temperature.

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад

      @@markavons3400 If you stood outside just long enough to be exposed to the flash, then dived underground quickly before the heat and blast arrived, you could get an accelerated tan and reduce the need for vit D. Just a suggestion. Do wear Rayburns tho

  • @Gstar0007
    @Gstar0007 15 дней назад +10

    All we need to do is keep 2 meters apart, that will save us .

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад +1

      Yes, this will prevent our molten bodies coalescing.

  • @user-xs1yx9tc9m
    @user-xs1yx9tc9m 17 дней назад +17

    I read somewhere that in the UK, you would never be farther than 22miles from a nuclear explosion.

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +2

      At least the survivors will have improved infrastructure to enjoy! 😅

    • @user-xs1yx9tc9m
      @user-xs1yx9tc9m 16 дней назад +1

      @@Naptosis In the 1980's my local council brought out a booklet describing what would happen to my city if a nuclear explosion happened there. ( Hull, UK )

    • @DevilishBeaver0
      @DevilishBeaver0 16 дней назад +4

      Hull already looks like a nuke hit it. Make a bunker in Beverley ​@@user-xs1yx9tc9m

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +1

      It depends on the number of bombs dropped…I don’t know what you have been reading?

    • @B-26354
      @B-26354 16 дней назад +5

      @@user-xs1yx9tc9m
      Hull still has WWII bomb damage that the council never bothered to repair (I'm not joking either)

  • @deano_bites
    @deano_bites 17 дней назад +13

    Britain cannot even survive a snow fight

  • @TheRogey1
    @TheRogey1 16 дней назад +8

    That should stop the boats!

  • @colingriffin6843
    @colingriffin6843 16 дней назад +25

    Paint yourself white to deflect the blast. An hide behind the couch

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад +2

      Nuclear weapons don't racially discriminate...

    • @colingriffin6843
      @colingriffin6843 14 дней назад

      @nakedenby what are you, chatting. No one said anything about race. Except for you, so that makes you the racist. Go sit in the corner, put your head guard on, and try not to eat all the crayons this time.

    • @colingriffin6843
      @colingriffin6843 14 дней назад

      @@nakedenby watch when the wing blows its about Britain and a nuclear blast. The old man paints everything white to deflect the blast

    • @dwynnell
      @dwynnell 13 дней назад +2

      According to the US information film tucking yourself and family under a gingham picnic blanket offers total protection.

    • @neiloxley7229
      @neiloxley7229 11 дней назад

      Oh, no. He-a-veeeee.

  • @Mmischa
    @Mmischa 13 дней назад +3

    Well that’s cheered me up 👍🏻

  • @evacuate_earth
    @evacuate_earth 17 дней назад +53

    What is the old saying?.... the living will envy the dead.

    • @dessmith7658
      @dessmith7658 17 дней назад +6

      The grateful dead

    • @mkdy218
      @mkdy218 16 дней назад +4

      Quite right! There are worst things in life than death!

    • @Username-lw4mi
      @Username-lw4mi 8 дней назад

      Tina turner never lies !

  • @TJ34644
    @TJ34644 16 дней назад +8

    Protect and survive was purely to fill people’s head with nonsense to stop mass panic. Things like making a shelter by taking all of your internal doors off.

  • @VaughanDee93
    @VaughanDee93 17 дней назад +18

    I really don't wanna find out the answer to this question in real life as a UK citizen myself
    We'd be completely crushed and almost no one has bunkers here, even most of the cold war bunkers have been left to rot

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +1

      You mean your house doesn’t have a cellar? Tough luck pal, I ain’t sharing mine with no one!!
      .

    • @halburd1
      @halburd1 16 дней назад

      why bother? the UK is dead already from importing the mohamad murder cult.

    • @mightymike2192
      @mightymike2192 16 дней назад +3

      Plenty of bunkers for the leaders. You can see them on Google earth when you know what they look like.

    • @user-jc1cz6su2d
      @user-jc1cz6su2d 11 дней назад

      The leaders all liv byondTheIceWall we are food or a sacrifice if ww3 bgings

  • @BennyLars
    @BennyLars 17 дней назад +10

    We'll be lucky if this doesnt happen within the next couple of years

    • @darendrury6591
      @darendrury6591 4 дня назад

      I was born in the year of the Cuban crisis, Now after all these years, nothing has been learned and this 21st century generation has to consider the same silliness that Government leaders cause when their toys are thrown out of their prams, if it takes as long as Brexit to take place, i should imagine my time on Earth, would have expired by then anyway.

  • @finnogorman5683
    @finnogorman5683 16 дней назад +36

    'it took 2 atomic bombs to make the Japanese surrender and they were a lot tougher than we are today'
    - Thomas Sowell

    • @djblackprincecdn
      @djblackprincecdn 15 дней назад +3

      I like Thomas but he knows there were a few more layers to their decision.

    • @5uper5kill3rz
      @5uper5kill3rz 14 дней назад

      I have a question, why did the Japanese essentially just get over it and become allies / friends of the west but the middle east hates us forever yet the Japanese got it worse?

  • @InevitableMayo
    @InevitableMayo 14 дней назад +7

    Let's face it. This country is so fucked in the event of a nuclear war. If I have time, I plan to just put my camping chair in the garden and wait.

  • @gar6446
    @gar6446 15 дней назад +10

    Short answer.
    NO.
    To small, over crowded and unprepared.

    • @duncanspiers8855
      @duncanspiers8855 11 дней назад

      No to small overcrowded and unprepared whats?

  • @Ascent-jz7fz
    @Ascent-jz7fz 17 дней назад +15

    Great explanation. At school in the 1970's (in Essex) we were told to hide under our desks. 🙂

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +1

      It'll help keep our giblets nicely gathered and free of dust, for when the zombie hordes pop by afterwards.

    • @jayconstantine5928
      @jayconstantine5928 16 дней назад +5

      We didn't even get told to do that. They used to test the sirens near our school from time to time, and one ocasion sticks in my mind. While us kids (about twelve at the time, - 1983/84), joked about how 'The Germans were comming', I remember the teacher, half way through the lesson at the time, standing pale, silent and motionless, listening to see of the siren would continue for more than the one rise and fall that they did for a test. What he'd have done if it had, I have no idea. . .

    • @Ascent-jz7fz
      @Ascent-jz7fz 15 дней назад

      @@jayconstantine5928 Pretty sure there was a shelter in Kelvedon Hatch (near Brentwood, Essex). As time went by the local news was that they weren't bothering anymore. Years later I ended up working in Moscow.... Most of my team recounted their perspectives over those years. "David, we didn't bother mush about UK. Small island... just a few nukes would have seen to you." Nice people but despot leaders.

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад +1

      That's why everyone built a reserve of chewing gum there.

    • @JohnJackson-mn4ts
      @JohnJackson-mn4ts 13 часов назад

      Duck and Cover.
      Would that really work?

  • @oliverleppik676
    @oliverleppik676 21 день назад +6

    Best vid thus far from you! Hope to see more like this. Well worth the wait!

  • @HoxtonHotspur
    @HoxtonHotspur 16 дней назад +4

    With most of us in the UK dead I wonder if what’s left of the RNLI will still be helping the dinghy’s come over 😂?

    • @FrostekFerenczy
      @FrostekFerenczy 13 дней назад

      Imagine being so pathetic to still be trotting out lame bullsh*t like this somewhere it doesn't belong.

  • @mikemines2931
    @mikemines2931 17 дней назад +62

    If you are alive anywhere on Earth after a nuclear war you'll very soon wish you weren't.

    • @Incogneto1981
      @Incogneto1981 16 дней назад

      This comment.

    • @VenturiLife
      @VenturiLife 16 дней назад +2

      Southern hemisphere you're probably relatively ok, but the world would never be the same.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +1

      You seem to be a pessimist! Catch a flight down to New Zealand, you’ll do fine there.

    • @mikemines2931
      @mikemines2931 16 дней назад +1

      @@DerekLangdon How often do the flights to Antarctica leave.

    • @B-26354
      @B-26354 16 дней назад

      This is based on the idea that nuclear winter would blanket the earth for decades but the study this theory is based on was deeply flawed.
      I wouldn't want to be in the Northern hemisphere but as others have said you'd be alright in places like New Zealand.
      There's a clown in another comment claiming to be a physicist yet won't actually debate the reasons why they believe humanity would end in a modern nuclear exchange.

  • @johnhudghton3535
    @johnhudghton3535 17 дней назад +16

    No, we have no anti missile defence and no civil defence to speak of.

    • @adamw2911
      @adamw2911 17 дней назад +2

      Yep. A decent defensive shield proved itself the other evening in Israel. We have never even entertained the idea here.

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад

      There's no good reason for the British Isles not to be a relative fortress, especially as we don't have to faff around with a Maginot Line like the 🐸s do.

    • @user23867
      @user23867 16 дней назад

      There's no reliable technology against ICBM. They drop out of orbit over the target. Even after all these decades, deterrence is still the only defence.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +1

      Jesus, just get plenty of baked beans in, and stop being so pessimistic!

    • @johnhudghton3535
      @johnhudghton3535 16 дней назад +1

      @@DerekLangdon 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @billscott4080
    @billscott4080 16 дней назад +5

    The.lucky.people
    Would.be.ones
    Taken.out..First.time
    Who.wants.to.live.through
    Nuclear.explosion

  • @JB-gq4ub
    @JB-gq4ub 14 дней назад +5

    I don't even need to finish this video..the comments section is all spot on 🤣🤣🤣

  • @user-xx6fm6re2n
    @user-xx6fm6re2n 17 дней назад +11

    A very concise and well documented video that I hope never comes to fruition

    • @HappyBear376
      @HappyBear376 17 дней назад +2

      Sadly it seems a certain demographic would hasten it.

  • @charliepearce8767
    @charliepearce8767 14 дней назад +4

    12:00 As a 20 year old back then , this was in our head with TV, music, movies, news papers, everything.
    Most young 20 year olds today are not exposed to what we went through.

    • @TEPMARMY
      @TEPMARMY 10 дней назад

      why would they need to be? the cold war is over, it has been over for 30years, the threat of nuclear war is probably much lower than any period during the cold war.

    • @Dryhten1801
      @Dryhten1801 7 дней назад

      War is closer now

  • @piotrd.4850
    @piotrd.4850 18 дней назад +24

    Watch movie _Threads_ ( NOT for a faint of heart!) and consider is it really WORTH to survive.

    • @Stancehall
      @Stancehall 17 дней назад +5

      Survival isn't worth it

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +2

      If none of us survive, who'll be left to vote for the Irish in Eurovision!?

    • @markgallagher5908
      @markgallagher5908 15 дней назад

      @@Naptosis Well they have a trans singer for this years entry called barbie thug so we weren't getting votes regardless, I'm almost wishing for nuclear war to avert the embarrassment....

    • @valley_robot
      @valley_robot День назад +1

      Yes it's worth it to survive, the first generation after the Fallout would have it the easiest, there would still be canned food everywhere, the second generation would face starvation and cannibalism, as the Fallout stops falling the sky would open up to more sunlight, the first new farmers would begin again, the future of the human race would depend on the first and second generation after the war going through a hell on earth, but the 3rd generation would be able to rebuild and form new societies, the polulation of the planet would be tiny at first, but with time and the radiation getting less and less, after about 100 years we would rebuild society. To just give up is a choice, but staying and surviving is the right thing to do for the future generations of humanity

    • @JohnJackson-mn4ts
      @JohnJackson-mn4ts 13 часов назад

      Ruth looked like she was in her 80’s 12-13 years later when she succumbed to the harsh conditions and died.
      Nuclear winter would be rough.

  • @leebailey229
    @leebailey229 19 дней назад +57

    My mate Debs says " nuclear war may solve the appalling road conditions by smoothing them out" 😂😂

    • @thalesofmiletus2966
      @thalesofmiletus2966 17 дней назад +1

      Shame you’d be driving on glass and slag.

    • @andyf4292
      @andyf4292 17 дней назад +1

      Putind Pothole initiative

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +3

      @@thalesofmiletus2966 Oi! They're trying their best in the apocalypse; no need to call them 'slag5'!! Drive around them!

    • @Eidolonian
      @Eidolonian 16 дней назад +2

      Debs is wise. 😊

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад +1

      Debs sounds like she's an intellectual. Is she single?

  • @ImNotAMonster0
    @ImNotAMonster0 22 дня назад +10

    This video was both fascinating and terrifying.
    Imagine surviving a nuclear war, only to be executed by your local copper for stealing clean water!
    I look forward to more videos.

    • @HappyBear376
      @HappyBear376 17 дней назад +1

      Sir I would suggest you be the strongest either through force of Arms, Violence or cohersion.
      If you're a woman then you'll find the natural whyles to be handy when combined with a womans's natural rèal polotick.

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 15 дней назад +8

    No, watch The war game and Threads. No food, water, nuclear winter, extreme cold. Hospitals destroyed, no anything

    • @valley_robot
      @valley_robot День назад

      I watched "threads" as a kid. My take on it is, Yes it's worth it to survive, the first generation after the Fallout would have it the easiest, there would still be canned food everywhere, the second generation would face starvation and cannibalism, as the Fallout stops falling the sky would open up to more sunlight, the first new farmers would begin again, the future of the human race would depend on the first and second generation after the war going through a hell on earth, but the 3rd generation would be able to rebuild and form new societies, the polulation of the planet would be tiny at first, but with time and the radiation getting less and less, after about 100 years we would rebuild society. To just give up is a choice, but staying and surviving is the right thing to do for the future generations of humanity

  • @keithshayle7027
    @keithshayle7027 18 дней назад +17

    By far one of the best videos which shows the true scale of Nuclear war. As pointed out humanity would be reduced to barbaric savagery, with cannibalism the only means of survival. Those that would emerge would be unrecognisable from humanity of today, with even a risk of the planet being so poisoned that even the very survival of humanity being called into question!

    • @grahamfisher5436
      @grahamfisher5436 18 дней назад +6

      Hi
      Google -
      Struggle for survival written by
      Steve Fox
      Then..
      If you have already watched THREADS,
      If you re watch it, with the back knowledge from Struggle for survival...
      It then makes you really understand just how accurate Threads actually was /is - the visual representation of what the UK governments nuclear war plans
      actually were.

    • @anthonydoyle7370
      @anthonydoyle7370 17 дней назад +2

      There is a video on YT which shows every nuclear blast since WW2. Well worth ten minutes or so to watch it.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад

      Yeah, Yeah we know! And world four will be fought with bows and arrows.

    • @RandomNooby
      @RandomNooby 16 дней назад

      No point eating people if they give you cancer...

  • @s0ycapitan
    @s0ycapitan 17 дней назад +26

    No, see "Threads" for details.

    • @HappyBear376
      @HappyBear376 17 дней назад

      I think you missed the point of the film my friend.

    • @s0ycapitan
      @s0ycapitan 17 дней назад +5

      @@HappyBear376 I watched the video, which is nicely produced.
      It's too pessimistic, eventually the World would recover but it would take 100 years or so.
      Advanced society will be preserved in the southern hemisphere but the UK will be toast.

    • @HappyBear376
      @HappyBear376 17 дней назад +3

      @@s0ycapitan Perhaps Mankind is slightly more reailiant. I learned a great deal about this when I was a young Soldier. One could argue more as I studied.
      As long as you have an aggressive personality and a wee bit of knowladge I suggest.
      Get water (higher the better) .

    • @3replybiz
      @3replybiz 8 дней назад

      @@s0ycapitan The contamination would last about 20K years (vide Chernobyl exclusion zone.) Most people would be dead. Most of the survivors would be maimed, traumatised and genetically compromised. The South would also be nuked for good measure. 'Threads' had a slew of Phds as consultants including the late great Carl Sagan. I think they knew a great deal about the subject.

    • @s0ycapitan
      @s0ycapitan 8 дней назад

      @@3replybiz Worst contamination would come from nuclear power plants which were either nuked or melted down.
      This would last 1000s of years.
      Fallout from the bombs is far less of a problem as there us a relatively small amount of long lived radioactive species.

  • @ohyeh845
    @ohyeh845 17 дней назад +70

    Wtf they couldn't even implement a COVID strategy.

    • @s.r.howell1297
      @s.r.howell1297 17 дней назад +11

      Not much can be done under the modern conservative party.

    • @JoeDoylePhotographer
      @JoeDoylePhotographer 17 дней назад +13

      Actually they did and it’s still running great, not as quick and effective as nukes, just mild side effects like no heartbeat.

    • @Lee_303
      @Lee_303 17 дней назад +9

      ​@@s.r.howell1297the Tories simply wouldn't bother. They hate us all anyway & would've probably escaped to some tropical islands beforehand.
      Where's the royals at right now? 😂

    • @RJM1011
      @RJM1011 16 дней назад +6

      @@s.r.howell1297 Labour would have done NO better they wanted the lock down to carry on for another year or more.

    • @v4skunk739
      @v4skunk739 15 дней назад

      Covid is common cold. Why would you take experimental mRNA gene therapy for that?
      Also do you have heart problems or turbo cancer yet?

  • @e1239
    @e1239 17 дней назад +18

    Well, that's me not sleeping for several days...

  • @spencerburgo
    @spencerburgo 15 дней назад +5

    We can barely survive 6 inches of snow 😂

  • @AndrewGibson22
    @AndrewGibson22 16 дней назад +32

    Im in Northern Ireland and my nearest nuclear shelter is in Moscow.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +2

      Haha!!

    • @kodiak64
      @kodiak64 11 дней назад +2

      Try under Gough Barracks in Armagh.

    • @debbiegilmour6171
      @debbiegilmour6171 11 дней назад +2

      There are nuclear bunkers all over the UK. Most are abandoned now but not all.

    • @rymacreeks2k07
      @rymacreeks2k07 8 дней назад +1

      not northern ireland but there's a decommissioned one turned into a museum a county over from where i live in Fife that could prob be reconverted if a war breaks out

  • @gordon7470
    @gordon7470 16 дней назад +15

    As a military veteran, I Britain has absolutely no chance of survival. Fact

  • @wrekin
    @wrekin 12 дней назад +2

    Life after nuclear war would be as Thomas Hobbes wrote, 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'
    The living would envy the dead.

  • @mstevens113
    @mstevens113 15 дней назад +18

    Most of the UK public couldn't cope with a fly shitting on them.

  • @James-hb6xj
    @James-hb6xj 17 дней назад +5

    The answer is a resounding no it would be a wasteland of toxic radiation at best

  • @billynomates920
    @billynomates920 17 дней назад +94

    britain is ideally placed to lose a nuclear war

    • @MI7DJT
      @MI7DJT 17 дней назад +1

      What country has nukes pointed at the UK?

    • @khankrum1
      @khankrum1 17 дней назад +19

      @@MI7DJT Russia for one!

    • @CraigJukes
      @CraigJukes 17 дней назад +25

      @@khankrum1 You have forgotten..MAD. We have them too, Russia would be wiped out if anything happened to the UK, we wouldn't need the US...we have our own.

    • @mardev1508
      @mardev1508 16 дней назад +7

      Its small enough to be wiped out

    • @hongkongphooey-kw4nd
      @hongkongphooey-kw4nd 16 дней назад +6

      ​@@CraigJukesyou are absolutly correct mate.

  • @andyf4292
    @andyf4292 17 дней назад +36

    and the old nuclear war ideas didnt even include the effects of EMP

    • @COUNTDOWNTOPOWER
      @COUNTDOWNTOPOWER 16 дней назад +3

      To be fair, a lot of the technology was a lot more analogue in the 50's and 60's and not much of the equipment they were using would have microchips in it.
      Surely our telephone lines all being above ground and not shielded would cause problems though? And it would effect the power grid.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +2

      EMP? I can’t bear the thought of it.

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 14 дней назад

      It did by the 70's for both military and civilians. Even if it was rather basic, like keep your transistor radio in a biscuit tin. Electronic infrastructure was more resilient then. Technology has advanced so much since, that it's now extremely vulnerable. The only positive is that if we suffer the effects of a nuclear EMP then electrical failures will be the very least of our problems.

    • @3replybiz
      @3replybiz 8 дней назад

      @@COUNTDOWNTOPOWER EMP would knock out the power grid.

    • @COUNTDOWNTOPOWER
      @COUNTDOWNTOPOWER 7 дней назад

      @@3replybiz Yeah, I said that. Landline services in the UK run off what's called 'phantom power' though - they still work if the power grid is offline. I'd imagine the exchanges have shielded back up generators too.
      Though, to be honest - most of the UK anti nuclear defences were built between 1955 and 1990, so a lot of it is probably decommisioned - and who even has a landline anymore?

  • @darwindarwin141
    @darwindarwin141 14 дней назад +3

    The wrong type of leaves on the rail tracks ,stuffs the whole of the Uk every year

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 16 дней назад +4

    UK Planning during the 80's was to not to evacuate civilians at all, keeping business and industry running right up to the last minute. The thinking being to make sure the economy keeps making that sweet sweet money until the buckets of instant sunshine pay a visit.
    The point of 'Protect and Survive' advice was intended to make it easier to identify bodies by linking them to the house. That way if anyone was keeping bothering to keep track, they could.
    In Glasgow, there were blocks of flats designed to be converted to hold prisoners (Eventually demolished about 10 years ago I think?).

  • @59patrickw
    @59patrickw 16 дней назад +4

    the government national and local will be in there bunkers and when they come out what are they going to govern
    crops in fall out covered land a possible nuclear winter and the people that might survive will not be to happy with the bunker people trying to lord it over them when they get out

  • @brekgar89
    @brekgar89 16 дней назад +17

    lol no plan in britain, there is its called EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF

  • @ListenHereHumptyDumpty
    @ListenHereHumptyDumpty 16 дней назад +5

    If nuke's can do all that damage i wonder way they built such things it doesn't make sense

  • @mychemical74
    @mychemical74 15 дней назад +4

    Well that was jolly !!! My father was in the ROC in the 80’s&90’s , he’s taken me to a small bunker as described in the video and to larger bunker which could hope over 100 people…such a shame it’s all been disbanded and the bunkers left to rot and ruin…!

    • @RichieReportsUK
      @RichieReportsUK 7 дней назад

      Seen loads of those old ROC bunker posts on Various RUclips Urbex videos, most are either derelict, or flooded but a few have been preserved or restored to there original condition, or used as 'mancaves!'

  • @RJM1011
    @RJM1011 15 дней назад +1

    That was good to learn from thank you for the video.

  • @Rob1972Gem
    @Rob1972Gem 17 дней назад +23

    Simple answer no
    could Britain survive a normal war? No
    Has Britain got the capability of going to war no?
    There’s been a massive lack of investment and preparation and readiness in the area

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +1

      Investment in War? Now that is comical. Who wishes to invest in war then, Sunak,and friends?

    • @RJM1011
      @RJM1011 15 дней назад

      Pedo in Dunblane so there's NO money now !

    • @Mulberry2000
      @Mulberry2000 15 дней назад +1

      They have capacity to go to war ie nukes. You could building massive bunkers than could housed thousands, and grow food under ground with uva lights etc. But it would be massively expensive

    • @Rob1972Gem
      @Rob1972Gem 15 дней назад +4

      @@Mulberry2000 you are correct we could but just look how long it’s taken to build the HS2 rail link massively over budget and they still haven’t got it done. The UK always seems to leave it till the last minute to do anything too little too late and sometimes is embarrassing to see

    • @RJM1011
      @RJM1011 15 дней назад

      @Mulberry2000 Pedo in Dunblane so there's no money !

  • @herby4215
    @herby4215 16 дней назад +3

    1000 times worse than the scenario of threads

  • @jamesbodnarchuk3322
    @jamesbodnarchuk3322 15 дней назад +5

    Save the politicians?waste of space.

  • @Samuella207
    @Samuella207 22 дня назад +16

    How will nuclear war affect guthlac’s ability to teach us about Runes?

  • @K1110.
    @K1110. 16 дней назад +2

    I'm sure big ears will survive it.

  • @padiedo7213
    @padiedo7213 16 дней назад +3

    NOBODY' WOULD SURVIVE A NUCLEAR WAR !!IT'S NOT THE MOVIE'S ???

  • @godieinafirenow
    @godieinafirenow 17 дней назад +4

    I would strongly recommend everyone to watch the movie THREADS. It goes into the subject of a nuclear attack on Britain in grim detail.

  • @shirleydrury5565
    @shirleydrury5565 17 дней назад +5

    Just hope it happens at night!! When I’ve had a few jars and sound asleep!! Sleep well people all the the BEST😊❤😅😊

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад

      Imagine if it's on a Monday afternoon, the amount of p1ssed off ghosts there'll be that they didn't just sleep in!! 🤣

  • @jaksmith8011
    @jaksmith8011 8 дней назад +1

    No matter the damage to communication infrastructure, your boss is still gonna manage to phone you to ask why you're not at work lmao

  • @gofres
    @gofres 16 дней назад +3

    I find it somewhat curious that I was born exactly 9 months after the peak of the cold war crisis. It's almost like my parents made their last stance 🤔

  • @iandougall7169
    @iandougall7169 17 дней назад +7

    Should the worst happen, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to rock a 1980s style, post apocalyptic, punk, cannibal, land pirate look 😁

    • @mightymike2192
      @mightymike2192 16 дней назад +1

      Welcome to the apocalypse. I hope you like leatherrrrr.

  • @spike178
    @spike178 3 дня назад +2

    Don't want to survive that, living nightmare.

  • @GM-qz9fo
    @GM-qz9fo 4 дня назад +2

    No one survives. Everyone loses.

  • @geronimo5537
    @geronimo5537 13 дней назад +3

    Actually in the last few years many government bunker projects have been starting to crop up in the US. I would not doubt the British have been preparing the same. We even have many companies dedicated to providing luxury bunkers for those willing to drop a few million as an entry fee.
    Also in the US we have underground networks for logistics spanning large distances underground. Both by rail and road. I would not say the plans or preparation of armageddon have been dropped at all.

  • @MarkFarrington-hb2ne
    @MarkFarrington-hb2ne 16 дней назад +3

    No and what a ridiculous question

  • @antpearson9676
    @antpearson9676 17 дней назад +6

    This is first rate.
    Watch Threads everyone if you really want to see what happens before and after a nuclear war.
    Bereft of all hope and will give you nightmares
    Ant p

  • @davewhittles
    @davewhittles 17 дней назад +19

    all the elites will have left the country or 50ft underground in bunkers the rest of no chance

    • @terrylear4219
      @terrylear4219 16 дней назад

      Would you fight for your country if called? I wouldn't.
      The powers that be have run this countrys armed forces down so much it's a disgrace.

    • @richardcurtis114
      @richardcurtis114 15 дней назад +5

      The elites will have nobody to piss off

    • @markavons3400
      @markavons3400 14 дней назад

      Some of the UK bunkers wouldn't have been good enough (theyre nowhere near the protection level of East German and Soviet bunkers) and they were ojnly designed for about three months use

    • @samanthabarry5817
      @samanthabarry5817 12 дней назад +1

      Give us all enough time and notice then like the common elites we to could leave the country

  • @neilsmith5762
    @neilsmith5762 17 дней назад +7

    Simple answer. NO.

  • @Dungeonseeker1uk
    @Dungeonseeker1uk 17 дней назад +7

    I grew up within walking distance of Hack Green, we used to go out there riding dirt bikes around the empty fields and yeah, been to the bunker many, many times. Never went inside it though. As a small kid I always used to laugh that "Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker" was signposted all over town, could never understand why they had signs to a secret bunker 🤣🤣

    • @davidw8110
      @davidw8110 16 дней назад +4

      It's a museum, that's why it's signposted. When it was still operational it would have been truly secret and there would be no signposts of course. It's doesn't look like much from the outside. Just a small unremarkable building, it looks like an electricity sub station or water authority building and most of the public during the day would have assumed that is what it was.

    • @mightymike2192
      @mightymike2192 16 дней назад

      ​@davidw8110 the current bunkers for local government are very low key, but visible on Google earth once you recognise their look.

    • @markavons3400
      @markavons3400 13 дней назад

      @@davidw8110 i'm afraid they weren't secret even before Duncan Campbells Warplan as quite a few people had done national service in the ex RAF ones.I found Hack Green when it was still in use and very active (i'm not from the area) at the third attempt and found 95% of the others,the bungalow was a dead giveaway for the ex ROTORPLAN ones.
      You might be astonished to learn that some of them still had RAF signposts,despite being RGHQs and SRHQs (government bunkers) or had signs saying "Crown Building"

  • @stephencharles1398
    @stephencharles1398 16 дней назад +2

    We don't have a plan.....end of

  • @eb4661
    @eb4661 16 дней назад +4

    In the Norwegian infantry during the cold war, we carried a small brush to clean our clothes and gear of dirt, dust and snow. This brush was a lifesaver. In case of an incident of a nuclear bomb, we were trained a lot on how to brush it off.

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +3

      As you're eastward, could you please be a dear and let us know once the missiles are on the way? That way I can die the way I've always lived; frantically bulk-buying toothbrushes & wasting life trying to save 30p a pallet. 🙏

    • @eb4661
      @eb4661 16 дней назад +1

      @@Naptosis
      All you have to do, is to buy one of my special atomic-bomb-brushes. They are delivered with a survival guarantee!

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +1

      @@eb4661 Since you've guaranteed it, I'd be stupid NOT to buy these brushes!! The russıans won't be expecting this! 💪🪥🪥🪥

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад +2

      Yes, In the UK we are well versed in brushing off problems.

  • @greenerz
    @greenerz 17 дней назад +19

    Our gov have pretty much
    Decimated the country with immigration let alone a nuclear war , we would be dead in the water

    • @avasworld8633
      @avasworld8633 17 дней назад +2

      It would probably stop the boats!😅

    • @halburd1
      @halburd1 16 дней назад

      yup why bother? the UK is dead already from importing the mohamad murder cult.

    • @spudspuddy
      @spudspuddy 15 дней назад

      @@avasworld8633 so would an airrifle, only needs a few holes

  • @Mark-ku9bn
    @Mark-ku9bn 17 дней назад +7

    Your best bet is to be in a city when the bombs drop.

    • @castlerock58
      @castlerock58 16 дней назад

      I live close to an airport. Hopefully, it will be a target so I will be dead before I know what happens. Being in a city could be awful if you suffer from burns, blast injuries or radiation sickness. You are sure to die from drinking contaminated water or starvation if you survive the first few days uninjured. There is no best bet if you are in a NATO country or NATO. Five billion people are expected to die in a nuclear winter.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад

      Intercity train…One way ticket to london please!

  • @southbrit
    @southbrit День назад

    Well, that was cheery. The most entertaining reality check I have had today.

  • @MythologywithMike
    @MythologywithMike 21 день назад +15

    Plot twist- This is Guthlac's elaborate segway to a video about Anglo-Saxon Ragnarok.
    In all seriousness, it's nice to see this video come to fruition. I know you've been working on this for a long time, much longer than I've ever spent on a project so I can't imagine how much of a relief it is to finally release it. Bravo!

  • @George.Coleman
    @George.Coleman 15 дней назад +3

    We should have laws that make us have adequate bunkers with enough to survive a year

    • @StikEmUp
      @StikEmUp 15 дней назад +1

      For what point? We'd all be fooked anyway.

    • @George.Coleman
      @George.Coleman 15 дней назад +1

      @@StikEmUp no we wouldnt

    • @RichieReportsUK
      @RichieReportsUK 7 дней назад +1

      They have that in Switzerland.

  • @Supreme_fence_sitter
    @Supreme_fence_sitter 22 дня назад +6

    Has Guthlac prepped his bunker?

  • @davidrumming4734
    @davidrumming4734 12 дней назад +1

    You can not survive a nuclear war.
    …those that survive will wish they hadn’t.

  • @user23867
    @user23867 16 дней назад +2

    Yeah, this is about right. The movie Threads did a good job portraying a lot of it.

  • @szariq7338
    @szariq7338 17 дней назад +4

    I've read some other sources, like "Nuclear War Survival Skills" and honestly, it isn't a such huge doom and gloom.
    Yes, it'd be a tragedy, but many forget about certain stuff, that change the game, like halflife of isotopes. Nuclear winter? Hard to tell, on one hand we have dust and smoke, on the other one we have marine currents.
    Also it seems people are overrating the yield of potentially used nukes.
    And if none of that will convince you: by surviving you get to choose if you still want to live or not, by dying this choice is taken from you and you won't get the chance to live again.

    • @DerekLangdon
      @DerekLangdon 16 дней назад

      Stay off the drugs pal. They are making you delusional!

    • @mightymike2192
      @mightymike2192 16 дней назад

      Spot on. Most people think they will be vaporised by huge nukes. This probably won't be the case. Might as well learn what to do if you survive.

    • @markgallagher5908
      @markgallagher5908 15 дней назад

      Giving cyanide pills to the survivors would be the kindest response by the authorities, sure some might survive a nuclear exchange but it would be decades before life would start to be worth living again and even then we would be living in a pre industrial society and we would only be able to gradually build back up our manufacturing capacity. A problem I don't hear being addressed is that the damage that would be caused by nuclear power stations being hit or even the lack of personnel that would be around to keep them from blowing up after a war, reactors going into meltdown or the leaking of radioactive waste due to neglect would cause a lot of additional contamination to an already poisoned world, I wish I shared your optimism.

  • @jackxly2352
    @jackxly2352 16 дней назад +14

    We can’t even sort out immigration on our beeches we’re Fucked

  • @trydowave
    @trydowave 5 дней назад +1

    We can't even fix pot holes. How the hell are we supposed to survive the apocalypse?

  • @davewallace5008
    @davewallace5008 5 дней назад +1

    Note to self; 100fp sunscreen, welding helmet, leather apron, welding boots, good supply of starbars, minstrels and dr pepper ;)

  • @nakedenby
    @nakedenby 17 дней назад +20

    The so called 'nuclear winter' remains a controversial theory. Otherwise a fair attempt at illustrating why the UK won't be the best country to live in during a nuclear war. It certainly wouldn't mean the end of civilisation tho' - a very substantial number would survive. But yes, buses would probably be running late and Tesco home delivery might be subject to delays.

    • @thalesofmiletus2966
      @thalesofmiletus2966 17 дней назад +1

      Yeh you keep thinking that.

    • @anthonydoyle7370
      @anthonydoyle7370 17 дней назад +3

      I think it depends on how many of the nukes were "airburst" and how many were "ground burst". There is little radiation from airburst as they do not kick up the contaminated ground fallout. The perfect examples of this are Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They were both airburst and the cities were habitable again soon after.

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +2

      Do you reckon Gregg's would increase the price of their sausage rolls, post Armageddon!?

    • @nakedenby
      @nakedenby 16 дней назад +3

      @@Naptosis Probably a special promotion on BBQ items with a metallic taste. They'll still be cold tho'.

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis 16 дней назад +1

      @@nakedenby All the pigs and cows are gone, where are Gregg's getting this "meat" from!?!!

  • @SistorCarrera
    @SistorCarrera 16 дней назад +7

    trust in me as one who is trained to survive...do not.