So what happend if nukes droped? You can chose If your area was hit with alot or few nukes

PLEASE BE REALALISTIC!

me i'd search a gunstore first and loot a sniper 9mm pistol, an assult rifle, some gernades and ammo then go to then return home and booby trap the place and stay there until run out of food and make my way to a grocery store and get as much food as I can and repeat.

Do what would you do if nukes fell?

Well in all honesty old sport, a nuclear war would have been preceedby years of tension, there would most likely be mass panic buying just before and all of the shops would have been cleared by thousands of similarly minded people on the first day, we would die, die a whole lot.

Realistically?

If I didn't die under rubble or by evaporation, I'd probably be puking my guts out due to radiation sickness. And since there are no gunstores in my country, everone would be running around with nailboards or some such.

Well, realistically, I'm stacking my chips on the fact that I live in the middle of the rear end of nowhere. After that happens? I'd scavange building equipment and hope to find a cache of REM's sowhere.

If a nuclear war ever happened, trust me, your wouldn't survive outside for a day.

Literally, the radiation would kill you and there is no 50's Science! to preserve your life.

Um, go watch 'Threads' and get back to us.

Your gun store / supermarket plan sort of depends on everyone but you being dead. And you being uninjured in the nuclear war. Got news for you. First you will get running sores and a high fever. You won't want to stand up, let alone lug around equipment. You'll be too nauseous to eat; if you do manage to choke down food you'll find it is irradiated and just makes you sicker. Then your hair and teeth will fall out, before or after you go blind.

Personally, all my antisocial end of the world fantasies involve zombies. Slow ones... not those damned runners.

Well seeing as though I live in DC I'm just gonna assume that I just got nuked and not worry about what to do next.

Otherwise I'd just holed out in my basemant with all of the food and the only 2 guns my family has until the chaos outside ends and then venture outside, going south, looting and scavenging along the way.

This is a perfect summation of what to expect.

Its not going to be like a Fallout senario where everybody starts wearing leather armor and toting assault rifles and you are able to walk over towards the horizon with a radioactive sunset and a faithful dog by your side happily exploring and looting the ruined wastes. It would be hell. People would die, lots of people, and not just from the bombs and radiation, in a all-out exchange senario a nations infastructure is going to be ruined. Running water? Nope, oh and by the way most of the rivers and other basins will be contaiminated, that means no showers, no ability to have clean clothes, and finding a drink would be an ordeal. Food from your local store? absolutely not, most of that would be gone within the first day or so and would likely have been gone before hand due to the international crisis that would have preceded such an event (as The Enclave said), many people would simply die of starvation. Medical services? you'd be luckly to get a bandage. The medical services (ambulances, Red Cross, hospitals), would be overwhelmed if not in need of medical help themselves. Aid from the government? For the time being, they'd be locked in bunkers such as Site R, Mount Weather, and NORAD and COG protocols would have been enacted, they're primary concern would be they're survival and would be virtally unable to do much to help anyway in the early aftermath stages.

What would I do realistically if a Nuclear War happened? I'd pray, even though i'm not particularly religious.

Know what I would do? I'd die.

Actually I'd do that too. :sadvaultboy:

Hopefully it wouldn't be from radiation though, I'd rather the blast get me.

I'd run TOWARDS the bright light.

Double post. Please delete.

Here? Vaporize. :flamed:
The FEMA attack maps predict several direct hits to New Orleans. Its got the ports, and the refineries.

Considering the closest big city Is 486 km away and where I live is small... seems safe

My general location would most likely not get hit by a nuke. The closest city is miles away and even that wouldn't be a major target.

My neighborhood is close to a Big Y and a gunshop that's sadly going out of business.

There is also many ponds nearby and I have purifier tablets. It's a very rural area with a lot of woods so hunting would be the main way to get food.

I'd probably live in my home with many of my friends with a knife and dogs to protect me until I get killed by some well armed looters.

If my area was hit by nukes? Well would be dead or dying from radiation.

If I managed to live. First thing I would do would be to grab a large duffle, unlock my gun locker and fill the bag with my guns and every last shell and bullet. Then go to the people I know that also have guns and if they are dead take their stuff, many live close by. Try to get in contact with by siblings and parents (also armed). Load up on food and head north to my family cottage (Northern Ontario).

Then your fate depends on the wind.

But hey, if you make it through the winter, good luck to you.

Realisticly. Presuming you've waited a couple of weeks until its safe outside, you've just been shot by the forces of order (Military/Police). Martial law is king, and you're a looter. There is only one penalty and you don't get a lawyer (heck, be thankful if you get a judge).


Agreed!!!!

I think people have a strange fantasy about what life would be like the day after the bombs. Civilisation wouldn't just disipear - The Police, Military, Fire Brigades, etc are all going to try to keep doing their job as much as they can - some because its just simply "what they do" and don't know how to do anything else, others because they believe they have a higher calling. Its not going to be nice, but you're also not going to be able to just be out for yourself.

I think threads is the most likely outcome. Someone in some sort of Authority locally will take some charge (it might not be the person the pre-blast law says should, it migh just simply be the person in charge of the police/military and can get their way via force). If you loot, you've committed an offence on the same scale as murder in this new community (you're stealing the food out of everyones mouth!), justice will be swift and harsh.

Everyone who can will work in the fields - or no food for you. It will be hard work; Don't expect to see a machine working the field - wheres the oil coming from? Think "Soviet Gulag" and I think you're close to the conditions you can expect (Little food, lots of work) Yeilds will be low - little if any pesticides or fertiliser (but heck, at least it will be organic )

If your shelter is habitable, you will probably be forced to take in those who have none. You will not have a choice in the matter - Did I mention justice will be swift and harsh?

Presuming you followed the "sensible advice" and didn't leave your shelter for two weeks to miss the bad radiation and didn't eat something you shouldn't have in desperation to put *anything* in your stomach, you're still probably as good as dead. The resources of entire UK health system nationwide if put in one place would not have the resources to deal with a single UK city in the aftermath of a nuclear war. There will be little if any medicine. If you need an operation your anaesthetic may just be something to bite on for the pain. But don't cry too much for those that do surcumb - I hate to say it but each death in this situation slightly increases your own chance of survival, or at the very least your food ration.

my town is small and 486 km away from a big city but that other citys bigger but small

I know law won't just disapear but where I am there's not many cops and stuff

About the military they would likely get to big citys first and stop looting and everything

First if I thought nukes were coming I'd get the hell out of Chicago and go to West Virginia where I have family.

I'd bring guns,food,water,meds and anything else i need

And send scouting parties to find resources.

Well im in a regional area, pretty unlikely that anyone would even bother wasting dropping a grenade on this city, the capital city is over a 100k's away and not likely to get fallout from there but probably likely that if Adelaide in South Australia gets nuked then we will get fallout from there since all weather basically comes from that direction, so we would have no power, and then if water supplies, and land and any fodder that would be contaminated. Plus it would be pretty lawless, since we would probably get tons of refugees from areas and non viable towns around Melbourne, the laws pretty much useless here now, also the emergency services arent trained for anything like this, i used to be in the emergency services and i asked what would happened and why we werent trained for these sort of emergencies, and i got lots of blank looks then lots of laughter, its not anything they take even seriously till it happens.

Basically the most useful thing a gun would be for would probably for using on yourself.

Hm... I think that Threads was a little too optemistic in my opinion. In that the government actually manages to hold some find of infastructure together and although we see things at the end go back to pretty much serfdom and slave labour, in the end things, must, ultimately prosper. I do love that film though:

"I survived the Nuclear War to be shot by a traffic warden!"

Its not central government though, its local government taking charge which is in the right position to do it.

Never-the-less a form of government exists, hell they're even flying planes with no other function that to use loudspeakers telling people to return to their homes at one point.