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- 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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britain can't even survive 2 inches of snow for 24 hours there's your answer
You beat me to it… it seems you know the uk well 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 to true
We shouldn’t laugh though as unfortunately it is the truth 🥺
Ha ha ha
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
Britain's leaders couldnt organise a shopping list with 3 items on it!!!
Yes,
Look after ourselves.
well they organised alcohol and takeaways to downing street during lock down
It would be a miracle if they could organise a shopping list with 2 🤣🤣
And in Rishi Sunak case it would consist of Maryland cookies and cakes 🤪🤪
I wouldn’t employ them as clowns in a circus tent as they would make bad decisions
The last people that should be saved are the politicians
...and the Royal Family.
as he said, there would need to be some sort of leadership. i fully agree with you though
@@williamtp3717 we are led by people that have been compromised financially to ensure the destruction of our race for short term financial gains
In today's age? Make the rules... Create an AI administrator... Get rid of government and royalty... Ideally all religion aswell
@@cr940 yep 👍
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.
A truly frightening film ....
Get plenty of baked beans in. You’ll be fine.
@@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
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.
@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 😨
Most of the UK couldn't survive the internet going out for a day.
one high altitude blast over uk the emp would be devastating no tv no internet most cars not working no banking power cuts
That goes for every western country though
The US couldn't handle it for 3 Hours
Any country could survive without internet what do you mean by that, i don’t understand your point?
It would make communication between countries harder but it goes the same for any country?
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.
'Threads' was traumatic to watch too.
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...
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.
@@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!!!!
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
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.
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'.
It wouldn't be the UK leading us into a nuclear war it would be Putin if anyone
Yeah good luck with that one superman
@@heyitsmetrousers4399😂😂😂
Why wait? Stop them now.. why wait until resources you could use are minimal/gone?
Power to you either way.
A mad rush on toilet paper again.
Man up pal! You can use newspaper like they did in WW2.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🙃👍🙋♀️🇬🇧
@@DerekLangdon blocks your loo, we don't have the old thunder flushers anymore
They was literally 💩 theirselves 😂
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.
it’s a plan which doesn’t include civilian survival. it’s cheaper.
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!
charlie big ears will be king of f,k all when he crawls out
Sausage fingers
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
@@spudspuddyprobably be dead by them
Codswallop, Ronnie Pickering will be among the survivors you watch
That should stop the boats!
😂😂😂 ahh thats a postive im all for it then
I genuinely don't think that a youtube video has ever shaken me as hard as this one has
Can Britain survive nuclear war? Lets put it this way, Britain is barely even surviving its own government
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...
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.
Back in 1970s my dad used to say that if there is a nuclear attack from the USSR, he will not be taking shelter.
someoens gotta stick around though.. I dont mind being that guy
You will be the "stick"that will be around after the atomic attack. 😂😂😂@@Plebzzz
exactly the only ones that should be sweating nukes are the ones that think they own this planet,
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.
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?
Our handful of tik tok addicted troops
Very sadly have to agree 😢
@@patsanters2741 Yeah, bring back the British Empire. We were happier then. The world was a safer and a richer place . The map of the world was covered in pink for all the friendly British colonies. People were polite. And the folk we colonised were great friends and thanked us for the peace, prosperity and Anglicanism that we gave them. Nice jolly chaps joined our army, flew our RAF planes, sailed our navy ships and went down into the mines singing happy songs. Ah, nostalgia. Today we've gone to hell in a handcart and everyone hates us including ourselves.
Don’t think the native Indians were thankful or the Irish ☘️
No one survives. Everyone loses.
Bunkers are useless when you come out. There will be nothing for you.
coming out is hard man
There's already nothing.
Paint yourself white to deflect the blast. An hide behind the couch
Nuclear weapons don't racially discriminate...
@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.
@@nakedenby watch when the wing blows its about Britain and a nuclear blast. The old man paints everything white to deflect the blast
According to the US information film tucking yourself and family under a gingham picnic blanket offers total protection.
Oh, no. He-a-veeeee.
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.
I agree, it's insulting that the best the nuclear commission could come up with was give up - there are still things that could be done, such as protection of knowledge - take svalbard for example. Britain could take notes on a seed bunker
All that shit is stored in greenland
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?
Preppers will be standing there with their gold coins wondering why they can’t buy bread🤦♂️
That's why you get a weapon
Oh so I guess preppies should just stop preparing and instead be as savage and helpless as everyone else then.
Did you even read what you said before you posted? What a stupid comment.
Being somewhat prepared is better than being caught with nothing at all I'd argue. Though the chances for both groups are slim
@@jammydodger1449you ignore the time it takes for a nuclear war to finish..the predicted exchange has been estimated to stleast last a week.
All we need to do is keep 2 meters apart, that will save us .
We'll be lucky if this doesnt happen within the next couple of years
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.
Weeks!
@@eileenmcchrystal8471 I think we're a little while away still, I wrote this during the Iran/Israel issue and that has since seemingly de-escalated but NATO soldiers fighting in Ukraine could change my mind
What is the old saying?.... the living will envy the dead.
The grateful dead
Quite right! There are worst things in life than death!
Tina turner never lies !
I read somewhere that in the UK, you would never be farther than 22miles from a nuclear explosion.
At least the survivors will have improved infrastructure to enjoy! 😅
@@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 )
Hull already looks like a nuke hit it. Make a bunker in Beverley @@user-xs1yx9tc9m
It depends on the number of bombs dropped…I don’t know what you have been reading?
@@user-xs1yx9tc9m
Hull still has WWII bomb damage that the council never bothered to repair (I'm not joking either)
The Only Plan...We All Die...
The plan is, HOW we die. It's better to go when completely out of it.
i think i'd be alright
@@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
@@theotheseaeagleno, you won't be okay even with that
@@theotheseaeagle brother did not even watch the video
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
You mean your house doesn’t have a cellar? Tough luck pal, I ain’t sharing mine with no one!!
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why bother? the UK is dead already from importing the mohamad murder cult.
Plenty of bunkers for the leaders. You can see them on Google earth when you know what they look like.
The leaders all liv byondTheIceWall we are food or a sacrifice if ww3 bgings
dover castle has miles of them open to the public, they do tours, i'll be running that way
Im in Northern Ireland and my nearest nuclear shelter is in Moscow.
Haha!!
Try under Gough Barracks in Armagh.
There are nuclear bunkers all over the UK. Most are abandoned now but not all.
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
'it took 2 atomic bombs to make the Japanese surrender and they were a lot tougher than we are today'
- Thomas Sowell
I like Thomas but he knows there were a few more layers to their decision.
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?
In this case Sowell was wrong. Japan only surrendered after the fall od Manchuria to the Soviets.
There was a lot more to the Japanese equation than that.
If you are alive anywhere on Earth after a nuclear war you'll very soon wish you weren't.
This comment.
Southern hemisphere you're probably relatively ok, but the world would never be the same.
You seem to be a pessimist! Catch a flight down to New Zealand, you’ll do fine there.
@@DerekLangdon How often do the flights to Antarctica leave.
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.
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.
underground is supposed to be body temperature, underground caves are not cold
Would a atom bomb not be a bit worse than a chill ?
Living in any bunker for an extended period would aslo require you take vitamin D tablets like submariners
@@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.
@@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
As a military veteran, I Britain has absolutely no chance of survival. Fact
Saying fact at the end of your opinion doesnt make it a fact
Britains plan go to the pub have a pint and a cigar and get a seat closest to the window lol
*This could be the answer to all the UK governments problems.*
The reistigation of the Trason act which Tony Blair repealed would keep us safe.
@@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 😂
Don't tempt them!
@@HappyBear376 which treason act? 1351 still exists. I believe the treason act 1708 was last amended in 2018 (a decade after Blair left office)
but wiil it get rid of the dingy invaders?
Britain cannot even survive a snow fight
snow fight? what
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.
God bless!
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.
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.
Best vid thus far from you! Hope to see more like this. Well worth the wait!
The best scenario for the average person is to be at the point of impact.
It's where I intend to be if the time ever comes!
At least it'll sort out the potholes.
My mate Debs says " nuclear war may solve the appalling road conditions by smoothing them out" 😂😂
Shame you’d be driving on glass and slag.
Putind Pothole initiative
@@thalesofmiletus2966 Oi! They're trying their best in the apocalypse; no need to call them 'slag5'!! Drive around them!
Debs is wise. 😊
Debs sounds like she's an intellectual. Is she single?
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.
No, we have no anti missile defence and no civil defence to speak of.
Yep. A decent defensive shield proved itself the other evening in Israel. We have never even entertained the idea here.
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.
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.
Jesus, just get plenty of baked beans in, and stop being so pessimistic!
@@DerekLangdon 🤣🤣🤣🤣
britain is ideally placed to lose a nuclear war
What country has nukes pointed at the UK?
@@MI7DJT Russia for one!
@@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.
Its small enough to be wiped out
@@CraigJukesyou are absolutly correct mate.
A very concise and well documented video that I hope never comes to fruition
Sadly it seems a certain demographic would hasten it.
Short answer.
NO.
To small, over crowded and unprepared.
No to small overcrowded and unprepared whats?
@@duncanspiers8855 - the UK is.
@@recur68 The UK is what? I hate it when people use a referent in a sentence without indicating what they are referring to. What you are saying is: "A=" without giving the predicate "B". The OP did this too but with a little more finesse. They said "No. To small and unprepared." Clearly that is not a complete sentence either. The referent there is "to small and unprepared". To small and unprepared whats? Packages? Meals? I would agree to "No, to small and unprepared meals." I like a decent amount on my plate. But let's at least learn how to write a whole sentence. Please.
@@duncanspiers8855 - 🤣
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!
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.
There is a video on YT which shows every nuclear blast since WW2. Well worth ten minutes or so to watch it.
Yeah, Yeah we know! And world four will be fought with bows and arrows.
No point eating people if they give you cancer...
Our gov have pretty much
Decimated the country with immigration let alone a nuclear war , we would be dead in the water
It would probably stop the boats!😅
yup why bother? the UK is dead already from importing the mohamad murder cult.
@@avasworld8633 so would an airrifle, only needs a few holes
For all of recorded history the islands of Britain have continually had migration from outside. Doesn't seem to have "decimated" us yet. Tho im sure there were tribemens complaining in the same way as you are now.
Great explanation. At school in the 1970's (in Essex) we were told to hide under our desks. 🙂
It'll help keep our giblets nicely gathered and free of dust, for when the zombie hordes pop by afterwards.
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. . .
@@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.
That's why everyone built a reserve of chewing gum there.
Duck and Cover.
Would that really work?
No, see "Threads" for details.
I think you missed the point of the film my friend.
@@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.
@@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) .
@@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.
@@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.
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
Investment in War? Now that is comical. Who wishes to invest in war then, Sunak,and friends?
Pedo in Dunblane so there's NO money now !
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
@@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
@Mulberry2000 Pedo in Dunblane so there's no money !
Life after nuclear war would be as Thomas Hobbes wrote, 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'
The living would envy the dead.
Most of the UK public couldn't cope with a fly shitting on them.
Wtf they couldn't even implement a COVID strategy.
Not much can be done under the modern conservative party.
Actually they did and it’s still running great, not as quick and effective as nukes, just mild side effects like no heartbeat.
@@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? 😂
@@s.r.howell1297 Labour would have done NO better they wanted the lock down to carry on for another year or more.
Covid is common cold. Why would you take experimental mRNA gene therapy for that?
Also do you have heart problems or turbo cancer yet?
As someone who lives in the far North of Scotland we seen how badly the country panicked in the days before the covid lockdown came into effect. People all over the UK tried flocking up here thinking it was a safe haven from the virus. Be much worse if nuclear war happened
Just hope it happens at night!! When I’ve had a few jars and sound asleep!! Sleep well people all the the BEST😊❤😅😊
Imagine if it's on a Monday afternoon, the amount of p1ssed off ghosts there'll be that they didn't just sleep in!! 🤣
Well, that's me not sleeping for several days...
Donald pleasance explained fake news in 1968 yt
And me!
And me!
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…!
Seen loads of those old ROC bunker posts on Various TH-cam Urbex videos, most are either derelict, or flooded but a few have been preserved or restored to there original condition, or used as 'mancaves!'
Typical Britain, just let everything rot.
NOBODY' WOULD SURVIVE A NUCLEAR WAR !!IT'S NOT THE MOVIE'S ???
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?).
No, watch The war game and Threads. No food, water, nuclear winter, extreme cold. Hospitals destroyed, no anything
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
The extent and effects of a "nuclear winter" are far from certain.
and the old nuclear war ideas didnt even include the effects of EMP
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.
EMP? I can’t bear the thought of it.
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.
@@COUNTDOWNTOPOWER EMP would knock out the power grid.
@@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?
I would strongly recommend everyone to watch the movie THREADS. It goes into the subject of a nuclear attack on Britain in grim detail.
The answer is a resounding no it would be a wasteland of toxic radiation at best
all the elites will have left the country or 50ft underground in bunkers the rest of no chance
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.
The elites will have nobody to piss off
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
Give us all enough time and notice then like the common elites we to could leave the country
If nuke's can do all that damage i wonder way they built such things it doesn't make sense
That was good to learn from thank you for the video.
How will nuclear war affect guthlac’s ability to teach us about Runes?
1000 times worse than the scenario of threads
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.
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.
War is closer now
The.lucky.people
Would.be.ones
Taken.out..First.time
Who.wants.to.live.through
Nuclear.explosion
Now here is a person that likes a good old full stop!
We don't have a plan.....end of
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.
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. 🙏
@@Naptosis
All you have to do, is to buy one of my special atomic-bomb-brushes. They are delivered with a survival guarantee!
@@eb4661 Since you've guaranteed it, I'd be stupid NOT to buy these brushes!! The russıans won't be expecting this! 💪🪥🪥🪥
Yes, In the UK we are well versed in brushing off problems.
This is a really interesting and fascinating video. It left me in thought
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!
Castle Bravo!
Yeah, this is about right. The movie Threads did a good job portraying a lot of it.
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
The planet wont survive nuclear war
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
No, the biosphere largely won't.
No and what a ridiculous question
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 🤣🤣
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.
@davidw8110 the current bunkers for local government are very low key, but visible on Google earth once you recognise their look.
@@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"
There are a lot of videos about surviving a nuclear war, but frankly I just don't believe its possible. Yields nowadays are massive compared to those of the nuclear testing days. If there was a full exchange, I think we'd be looking at the annihilation of life on Earth within around 2 years. It really is utter madness.
On a global scale nukes don't have a very large radius. I feel like the means to launch the nukes would be destroyed before total blast coverage was achived. I doubt we even have enough nukes in the world to cover the globe in blast zones. And who's gonna target places like northern Canada, or Mongolia? Life could survive fallout conditions, including some humans. Most would perish, but some would survive long enough to reproduce out of it.
Well that’s cheered me up 👍🏻
We can barely survive 6 inches of snow 😂
Should the worst happen, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to rock a 1980s style, post apocalyptic, punk, cannibal, land pirate look 😁
Welcome to the apocalypse. I hope you like leatherrrrr.
I am a Nuclear veteran from the Hydrogen Bomb tests in the Pacific and you had better believe this video because everything in it is true. Our cities would be wiped of the map in seconds and every living person would be vapourized in seconds. We were at a safe distance during the tests but the heat and brilliant light was so vivid it has stayed in my memories as if it were yesterday, my hands covered my eyes but the light was so bright I could see the bones in my fingers.
NO.
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
Watch movie _Threads_ ( NOT for a faint of heart!) and consider is it really WORTH to survive.
Survival isn't worth it
If none of us survive, who'll be left to vote for the Irish in Eurovision!?
@@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....
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
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.
Simple answer. NO.
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.
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 🤔
We should have laws that make us have adequate bunkers with enough to survive a year
For what point? We'd all be fooked anyway.
@@StikEmUp no we wouldnt
They have that in Switzerland.
The short answer in NO, the long answer is HELL NO.
Thing is, if you survive; what are to surviving to? Everything would be gone.
Yep, so it's kind of pointless living anymore if that is case.
The wrong type of leaves on the rail tracks ,stuffs the whole of the Uk every year
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 😂?
Imagine being so pathetic to still be trotting out lame bullsh*t like this somewhere it doesn't belong.
It WILL happen one day,and the answer is NO,nobody will survive.
Well that’s cheered me up no end
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.
Stay off the drugs pal. They are making you delusional!
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.
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.
We can’t even sort out immigration on our beeches we’re Fucked
Theres been 500 odd nuclear explosions in the world...we have all been irradiated.