No. Your problem is that Sellafield would be a primary target and has 60 years worth of surface stored crap that would be instantly vapourised, making the biggest dirty bomb imaginable.

Pray for a southerly wind.

Myrtle Beach would be a creepy-ass post-apocalyptic place!

It already is a creepy ass place.

I have a strong feeling it would resemble Point Lookout in a post apocalyptic state.

I thought I was in a GTA game the first time I drove through there, lol. As a European, it's truly a strange place =)

I'd be [censored]. I'm an hours drive from a major military base; and around a few heavily populated area's in the Carolina's. So even if I got a heads up, I'd probably get toasted in a traffic jam.

Na man, you guys are [censored] worse than the US. Sweden's got more nukes pointed at it than China or the US got pointed at each other! No one wants a second Viking Age... not to mention what happened with https://youtu.be/YAasJBot9as?t=47.

Hmm, probably the San Diego Zoo lol, there's not many places to hide around here.

This post reminds me of Carol's story..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2f5tHqCRZE

The shadow of her father burned into the concrete.. touched me very deeply.

I dont know about other countries but in the U.S. a lot of major cities and some smaller ones (including mine) have public fallout shelters built back from the Cold War. There's one about a mile from my house so I'd just head there. Along with everyone else in the city probably.

Well southern England would be screwed. The north, outside the major cities, would be reasonably ok, by which I mean "only poisoned and with infrastructure breaking down". There were plans during the cold war for the resettlement of southerners in the north in the event of a nuclear attack, which suggests they expected the north to be more habitable.

Also recall that IRL, nuclear bombs don't cause 200 year deathzones of radiation. It should be reasonably safe to go outside after a few weeks, and though you will have health problems from radiation, if you survive ten years down the line life wouldn't be massively awful.

I live in the middle of nowhere AK so I'd more than likely have nowhere to go further than my basemant. At least I've a 1,000 gallon holding tank of water there and some canned goods. I've also got a 500 gallon tank of gas, another full of heating oil and a generator.

It's a nice place to die.

What if the generator malfunctions and the gas blows up with the heating oil?
...while you're in there?

just run to the handistop. steal as much beer as I can carry. go home and wait tell whatever bomb gets me. waay too many good targets near me for me to live, so drink and watch the world end seems a good plan b.

I'd stay out in the country with a rifle. On the bright side, at least a nuclear apocalypse would make Detroit a way safer city.

Lmao. A remarkable improvement!

I think I answered that with my last sentence.

"It's a nice place to die."

I live about 11 miles from Nellis AFB so it would likely be burning curtains for us.

Go to Lima Peru to the andes mountains. Supposely that's the only place to survive any type of disaster i read it somewhere but i can't remember.

Woops. I thought you meant it was just "nice" to die there because it was a safe place (not really, since we're talking about dying in it) to be in.

Where I live, forgot the site now, but there is 3 possible targets and one of the radiation radius is well into my area, well from a Keller tape, "Have a Happy Holocaust!" (from FO3). If that is not enough, the multiple targets from Montana, iirc, that fallout is bit concentrated to land in my area as well. Double screwed.

*Wish I lived in the Galapagos

Well, I imagine it's a safer place than most populated areas. It's very sparsely populated, in the mountains and quite far away from a populated area. And would therefore be unlikely to be near where bombs would be dropped. And my storage of gas, heating oil and water would more than likely make it possible to get through the first winter. After that though, all bets are off. So regardless of if I were to escape the initial bombings it's likely I wouldn't make it. Going quickly might be best.

Regardless, I am at an age that I do not fear dying.

Randall Clark (Honest Hearts DLC) made it out by living in a cave for several months with some supplies left there by a USGS team that abandoned the area.

He had to stay there for a little longer than expected because of the rads and he had to use the slightly irradiated water that was there by natural means, even if radiations started to be extremely low (compared to how many there were the days before) some weeks after the Great War.

So, if the bombs considered are like the ones in Fallout, you should be pretty safe. Not sure about being alone all the time, though...

And this brings to mind that my water well is over 200 feet deep. Would that water be safe I'm wondering? Less safe or more safe than my water in my 1,000 gallon holding tank?

I guess I should research that since one never knows when I might need to know that.

I think you're safe. The water in the tank will be safe too, if the place it's located in is sealed off (or just not directly leading outdoors)

Well, funnily enough I live very close to a nuclear base, which would likely be a primary target in a global exchange of nuclear weapons. I think I'd be safe from the blast were it to hit (assuming it actually hit the base and didn't miss it by a bit), what I'd do then is hole up in a nearby supermarket, fortify that place as best I could and live out the rest of my days eating canned food and attempting to defend it.

I MAY accept refugees, but I'm a fairly paranoid and controlling person. I'd get quite nervous with too many strangers around, especially in a lawless situation where I'd be heavily armed. I'd need to be in control, and I don't think I'm the sort of person who should have the slightest amount of authority over others. Certainly not unchecked authority, at least.

Also as some of you will know I'm not opposed to cannibalism in the slightest, so there's that.

Really? I was under the impression fear of death generally increased in gravity with age as you came closer to it being comphrensible as something that will actually happen as opposed to some far-off thing you take your mind off of with distractions.

Yep. Croatian/Dalmatian guy gere
We safe fam!