Would You Survive a Nuclear Bomb?

[snorri]

Did you type that URL by hand rather than copying and pasting?
(mind you, that video is no more informative to me than your broken URL )

No, I pasted it.
Yes, I should have said a little more about the receivers which were fitted in police stations, fire stations etc. etc. and the homes of "important" people in communities the length and breadth of the UK during the Cold War. The idle condition was the ticking you hear on the video, this could be interrupted by spoken messages as and when required from a central control point. It was a one way system, you could listen but not reply.
Try this link instead

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eymb9uhp-vI

 

[NorthernDave]

Yebbut did you have whitewash and a brush to paint over your house windows?

I'm sure we would have. Mind you, I'm not sure we could have whitewashed all the windows and set the kitchen table / nuclear bunker up in the three minutes we'd have available.

 

[snorri]

I'm sure we would have. Mind you, I'm not sure we could have whitewashed all the windows and set the kitchen table / nuclear bunker up in the three minutes we'd have available.

No probably not, but it would have taken your mind off more serious things for three minutes.

 

[Glenn]

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://youtu.be/SXWVpcypf0w

 

[pplpilot]

Surprised no one has linked these ( unless I missed them flicking through)

 

[colly]

I'll be alright. I wear a cycle helmet.

 

[Bollo]

My dad was a scopie in the RAF so I spent most of growing up on the bits of the UK that faced the USSR. In the late 80s he worked at RAF Fylingdales, so could have been the first westerner to see the shizzle going down. During excises he also used to leave the house and come back in his NBC suit. That was fun.

Ironically I did a PhD in nuclear physics, which has done nothing to make me want to hang around if it all goes a bit Threads.

 

[chriswoody]

The primary school next to where we live has still got the old cold war air raid siren on the roof and their obliged to test it every once in a while. When we first moved here two years ago, I hadn't known this and it scared the crap out of me the first time it went off!

I live only an hour away from the old East/West border, it's quite fascinating chatting to folk about those times. My wife's grandparents still talk of hearing the dogs at the fence being fed at night.

 

[slowmotion]

My wife was in the Observer Corps in the 80s and allocated to a government bunker in Dundee. She became very adept at writing backwards on glass screens. After six months she was promoted to meteorological officer - partly because she had a geography O Grade and partly because she wore a short skirt to climb the ladder up to the hatch in the roof to observe the weather. She even kept the card she had to show to police in an emergency that would see her get a police escort to the bunker. They ran numerous exercises where they role-played an attack and tried to get civilians to the shelters but never managed to get above 20% success rates. One official said in reality they wouldn't give the public any warning because all it would achieve was panic stricken crowds blocking the routes to the bunker for the VIPs.

Fabulous! Thank-you.

 

[pplpilot]

I did a PhD in nuclear physics...

somthing really cool about this.

Do you ever get to say "I'm a nuclear physicist" when asked "so what do you do?"

 

[Bollo]

My wife was in the Observer Corps in the 80s and allocated to a government bunker in Dundee. She became very adept at writing backwards on glass screens.

My dad could do that! It's freaky! Also we had loads of those weird biro/crayon pens lying around the house.

 

[Drago]

@swl your Head Office was in the ROC? That's pretty kewl.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

@swl your Head Office was in the ROC? That's pretty kewl.

No, nothing to do with me. This was my wife before she met me. I was bravely tackling calculus and fighting off WRENs at the time.

Incidentally, she was thrown out of the ROC when somebody informed the authorities she was having a relationship with a Pakistani neighbour. She wasn't but her CO said she was a security risk so had to leave.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And a more useful post -

http://survival-mastery.com/diy/construct/how-to-build-a-bomb-shelter.html