New York City releases video - how to survive nuclear attack

[KingKhanWC]

A 90-second public service video telling New Yorkers how to survive a nuclear attack has sparked bemusement and concern.

The clip, released by the city's emergency management agency, shows a computer-generated street devoid of life while damaged skyscrapers can be seen in the background.

Mayor Eric Adams says he does not believe the video is alarmist, telling reporters: "I'm a big believer in better safe than sorry."

NYC residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats, including severe weather, public health, and mass shootings.

A narrator says: "So there's been a nuclear attack. Don't ask me how or why. Just know that a big one has hit."


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It gives advice to residents, telling them to stay indoors and wash off any radioactive dust or ash.

https://news.sky.com/story/video-te...urvive-nuclear-attack-sparks-concern-12651088

Seems like more fear mongering.

What is the best way to survive a nuclear attack?

 

[MenInG]

https://news.sky.com/story/video-te...urvive-nuclear-attack-sparks-concern-12651088

Seems like more fear mongering.

What is the best way to survive a nuclear attack?

To be honest, I don't want to find out!

 

[KingKhanWC]

To be honest, I don't want to find out!

Godwilling we wont need to!

But its important we are mindful as the chances of a nuclear war are higher than ever.

The video says get inside and stay inside your home. Rays can go through walls, so this wont help unless you are in a bunker or a deep into a cellar.

 

[sweep_shot]

Informative video. I think we should learn what to do in case a nuclear war breaks out.

It shouldn't happen but you never know.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Informative video. I think we should learn what to do in case a nuclear war breaks out.

It shouldn't happen but you never know.

Eg Russia can strike NY in less than an hour and Vice Versa.

If you are out, you will be in the middle of choas. If you get home, you may not be able to leave for months, so its vital to have food and water in the house.

Do you store a lot of food regularly or shop as you need?

 

[sweep_shot]

Eg Russia can strike NY in less than an hour and Vice Versa.

If you are out, you will be in the middle of choas. If you get home, you may not be able to leave for months, so its vital to have food and water in the house.

Do you store a lot of food regularly or shop as you need?

Shop as I need. But, I keep some dry foods. Almonds, sunflower seeds etc.

I think it is good to get a thermal blanket and a few other survival gears (along with dry foods).

 

[KingKhanWC]

Shop as I need. But, I keep some dry foods. Almonds, sunflower seeds etc.

I think it is good to get a thermal blanket and a few other survival gears (along with dry foods).

I think water and tinned food is best to always keep in abudance.

Also we need to remember a nuclear attack could take place anywhere in the world but will effect all in one way.

This is prob one of the best talks on nuclear war, check it out. We need to know what such a war would look like before making any plans.

 

[James]

I am not a survivalist or a doom monger, but I always think it is useful to have in plenty of cupboard supplies in case “something” happens — tinned food, dry pasta, canned drinks, long life milk, toilet roll — etc.

 

[Robert]

There is no way to survive a nuclear attack.

Even if you avoid the instant barrage of fast neutrons and x-rays which shreds your DNA…

Even if you avoid the heat of the surface of the Sun which turns people into wall-shadows….

Even if you then avoid the thousand mph bombardment that all bricks, mortar, timber, metal has become….

Even if you then avoid breathing in the radioactive fall-out from the blast which kills you with radiation sickness…

Then you emerge from your deep shelter to find that all food sources are gone. The food animals are all dead and their corpses radioactive. The plants soon die as nuclear winter kicks in.

You will be left wandering a cold blasted radioactive desert until you get hunted and shot by someone who needs to eat you to stay alive for another week.

Nuclear war is The End for Northern Hemisphere. Nearly all human life and the accumulated culture of thousands of years will be gone.

The Southern Hemisphere will fair a bit
better than the Northern cataclysm, but not by much as nuclear winter kicks in there too. All communities which rely on seafood will fail as ocean food webs collapse.

Over time, as the dust is eventually rained out of the air, some southern nations will start to bounce back but we are looking at 90% human population loss worldwide.

 

[KingKhanWC]

I am not a survivalist or a doom monger, but I always think it is useful to have in plenty of cupboard supplies in case “something” happens — tinned food, dry pasta, canned drinks, long life milk, toilet roll — etc.

Pasta is a good one to store.

AS for the video by NY, its scaremongering to ensure more support for sending weapons to Ukraine.

The video is so poorly made, like something by a kid on the ipad.

The woman comes on and says 'there has been a nuclear attack, dont ask me how or why' Oh lets not care how this occurred.

 

[Technics 1210]

The Day After. Old skool British movie from the 80s on this very topic. Watch it and it will send shivers down your spine. Scared the pants off an entire generation.

Also Japan are in a better position to tell the world how to survive a nuclear attack, being the only country in the world to have been nuked, twice, by the one and only, Uncle Sam.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

There is no way to survive a nuclear attack.

Even if you avoid the instant barrage of fast neutrons and x-rays which shreds your DNA…

Even if you avoid the heat of the surface of the Sun which turns people into wall-shadows….

Even if you then avoid the thousand mph bombardment that all bricks, mortar, timber, metal has become….

Even if you then avoid breathing in the radioactive fall-out from the blast which kills you with radiation sickness…

Then you emerge from your deep shelter to find that all food sources are gone. The food animals are all dead and their corpses radioactive. The plants soon die as nuclear winter kicks in.

You will be left wandering a cold blasted radioactive desert until you get hunted and shot by someone who needs to eat you to stay alive for another week.

Nuclear war is The End for Northern Hemisphere. Nearly all human life and the accumulated culture of thousands of years will be gone.

The Southern Hemisphere will fair a bit
better than the Northern cataclysm, but not by much as nuclear winter kicks in there too. All communities which rely on seafood will fail as ocean food webs collapse.

Over time, as the dust is eventually rained out of the air, some southern nations will start to bounce back but we are looking at 90% human population loss worldwide.

You should be a screen play movie writer.

But yeah, thats what it’s probably gonna look like.

 

[Colorblind Genius]

The Day After. Old skool British movie from the 80s on this very topic. Watch it and it will send shivers down your spine. Scared the pants off an entire generation.

Also Japan are in a better position to tell the world how to survive a nuclear attack, being the only country in the world to have been nuked, twice, by the one and only, Uncle Sam.

That was atom bomb.

They probably wouldn’t exist if it were two nuclear bombs.

 

[Robert]

You should be a screen play movie writer.

But yeah, thats what it’s probably gonna look like.

That’s a full scale nuclear exchange, We will all die. Everyone will die. It really is The End. Europe, USA, Russia, China all gone.

I refer you to a BBC drama-documentary called ‘Threads’ which aired in 1982 and was never shown again because it was too shocking. This was a story of two families - it didn’t focus on the results of releasing solar physics in a planetary environment like I did, but on people.

The lad from one family got the girl from the other pregnant. A limited nuclear exchange took place. London, Birmingham, Faslane and a few other places were erased from the world. Nuclear winter began. The film flashed forward a week, a year, five years and fifteen years after the attack as the young couple tried to survive in a collapsed society. In fifteen years the UK population had fallen to 2% of pre-attack levels. No public services existed. The survivors couldn’t get the water and power grids back up, and society had regressed to a pre-medieval dark age state. The next generation spoke a rudimentary English. The film ended with the girl-child of the couple at the beginning hitting puberty and immediately being raped by a teenage boy. She then gave birth to a heavily deformed dead baby, and screamed. End credits.

 

[MenInG]

The risk of a nuclear "Armageddon" is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said.

Mr Biden said Russia's President Vladimir Putin was "not joking" when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering setbacks in Ukraine.

The US was "trying to figure out" Mr Putin's way out of the war, he added.

The US and the EU have previously said Mr Putin's nuclear sabre-rattling should be taken seriously.

However, the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan last week said that, despite Moscow's nuclear hints, the US had seen no signs that Russia was imminently preparing to use a nuclear weapon.

Ukraine has been retaking territory occupied by Russia, including in the four regions Russia illegally annexed recently.

For several months US officials have been warning that Russia could resort to the use of weapons of mass destruction, if it suffers setbacks on the battlefield.

President Biden said the reason the Russian leader had not been "not joking" when he talked about using tactical nuclear, biological or chemical weapons - "because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming".

"For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd been going," Mr Biden told fellow Democrats.

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis."

In 1962, the US and the Soviet Union - under President John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev - came close to a nuclear showdown over the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Cuba.

The confrontation is considered by many experts to be the closest the world has ever come to a full-scale nuclear war.

During a speech last Friday, President Putin said the US had created a "precedent" by using nuclear weapons against Japan at the end of World War Two - a comment that would not have gone unnoticed by Western governments, our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg points out.

Mr Putin has also threatened to use every means at his disposal to protect Russian territory.

BBC

 

[Robert]

One ray of hope is that Putin is cocooned by terrified yes-men who tell him what he wants to hear - so that he probably thinks his invasion is going well, and so will not resort to WMD.