Nuclear WAR - like... right now?

(assuming it is far enough away)
- look away.
- duck & cover.
- check & close all windows and doors.
- run to all sinks, bathtubs, whatever. plug them & fill them with tapwater.
- get my pistol and load it (better safe than sorry).
- tape shut windows as well if possible (if you cant tape the frame itself, tape the curtains shut against the surrounding wall).
- stop to check sinks and bathtubs. start filling all pots, pans, buckets, whatever you can find with tapwater.
- seal the basement airvents that come from outside (if you cant seal it from fear of asphixiation, either leave the door open to upstairs, or drape the airvents with wet cloth and keep it wet)
- start carrying supplies to the basement. a radio, clothes, blankets, sanitational supplies, any and all food and drinks you have, flashlights, candles, anything with a battery, guns, ammo, laptop, medical drugs, fuels of any kind.
- build a little bunker with what you have inside the basement. especially pad the sides from the prevailing winds and the sides closest to an exterior wall. use what's as your disposal. bricks, metals and dirt are great, but books and other paper will do just fine. use a curtain to close it off (works for keeping the heat in as well). if the blast is far away, start piling up dirt outside the house, against the outside walls closest to your lil' bunker.
- hunker down and wait it out. listen to the radio from time to time. ration food & water, and if necessary keep light usage to a minimal if you feel you dont have enough batteries or candles. if possible sit it out for at least 2 weeks, or if you get the clear signal on your radio or from loudspeakers outside. when leaving, cover your mouth with cloth and stay the fuck away from light dust.


(due to time constraints, i cut down on the list, there's a bunch of other stuff to do, but i didnt feel like spending too long on this post ;) )
 
If nuclear bombs started dropping. I'd probably wait at home, assuming I survived the blast and radiation. After that it would be a matter of food and water. As time went on (again, assuming I survived) I'd try to arm myself. Maybe even start a band of survivors, try to get ourselfs either to some country that wasnt nuked (and overwhelmed with refugees) or just find a spot some place we could be self sufficiant. Like a farming community or somthing.

Or maybe I'd just take a running jump into the Vats before my Rad count got too high, I'm undecided.
 
Assuming I was seperated from my family and loved ones at the time, I would try to find them, and that would be my primary concern.
 
RMX said:
Really? http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/716/78071464tn5.jpg
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you know the world aint flat, so the explosion would not go 'north' in your picture :D


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Here is teh corrected explosion
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Yeah, that's what i wanted to say, but what's with the face? Anyway,
i've read a book "Nuclear war survival skills". The author sais that the strength of the nukes is overrated and that their outside-of-blast effect wouldn't be so deadly as the media might let you believe.

I don't have rations right now, just some supplies, and i don't drive a car either. Best thing to do is to grab my gas mask, go into the basement, wait for a couple of days eating rats, bread and beans. Then, assuming i don't blow up the basement, run like hell as far away from the city as possible, retreating into the woods/mountains to live with the animals i can't catch and starve...unless i turn cannibal or find some other people.
 
I'd head for the hills as fast as I could, reason being I live about a mile and a half away from a level four biosafety lab. No Ebola for me, thanks, I'm driving.
 
Eww, and the Ebola could mutate into something worse. Man, living next to that lab is almost as bad as me living 100m away from the government central building. I live next to a damn target. I mean, they don't even have to miss to kill me.
 
I'd probably go:
"Hmm, well....there goes the neighborhood."

Honestly ?
Go into depression. I remember how fucked things were when Chernobyl went off. I can't imagine how bad things would get if our country was nuked, even once.

Apeshit, maybe ?
 
Blakut said:
Eww, and the Ebola could mutate into something worse. Man, living next to that lab is almost as bad as me living 100m away from the government central building. I live next to a damn target. I mean, they don't even have to miss to kill me.
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There's always the chance I could turn into a super mutant. That would be kinda cool. :)
 
Honestly... It disgusts me to say this but I know myself very well.

I would probably commit many rapes and I know I would steal everything.

I'd probably try to form some kind of gang too, just to protect my deliquent ass from being killed by authority figures.
 
Lost Metal said:
Honestly... It disgusts me to say this but I know myself very well.

I would probably commit many rapes and I know I would steal everything.

I'd probably try to form some kind of gang too, just to protect my deliquent ass from being killed by authority figures.
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see? that's why i'm packing. 8-)
 
I'd go north, after taking the necessary precautions (SuAside's list is impressive, and reminds me of the precautions outlined in the Zombie Survival Guide :wink: ). I would go and collect my girlfriend (if she was alive) so I'd have something to screw up north in the frigid Haliburton highlands! Assuming that the aggressor did not fire random nukes high in the north and irradiate the natural water table there, the water that flows north to south towards the St. Lawrence river would be alright to drink, for a couple of years anyways. Thankfully, my family keeps a fully stocked cabin up in the woods, which would be a perfect place to stay. There are other cabins up there too, that I could ransack, clear out and loot to insure me and my mate's survival. After twenty or so years I'd begin making small incursions into the south, armed with my shotgun and rifle, along with other personal weapons, and size up the situation. Most of dangerous radiated particles would have been dispersed by then so I would try and make contact with anything left alive.

Anyone know where to get a Geiger reader?

Edit: I am in love.

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I think I will buy this Geiger reader, I found it on eBay for an extremely low price and even if it does not work, its style screams 1950s nuke generation nonetheless.
 
If you want a real detector, I'm partial to the RadAlert Inspector I use for work. It will set you back about $500, although they make a more civilian friendly model for about $350.

Might be better off with a pen or badge style personal dosimeter. Easier to remember, no batteries involved, and more portable.
 
JohnnyEgo said:
If you want a real detector, I'm partial to the RadAlert Inspector I use for work. It will set you back about $500, although they make a more civilian friendly model for about $350.
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Looks like a rather decent doohickey. There's also the tried, tested and true Victoreen Civil Defense series of civilian Geiger counters, or even the Russian "RadEx" *smirks* pocket dosimeters that are flooding foreign markets. Can you give me some specs for the RadAlert Inspectors or link me to a website that provides them? I am interested in what these devices can measure.

Edit: Never mind, I found them. :)
 
I've read this book "Nuclear war survival skills" :D and it teaches you to make a radiation meter using household items, a bucket being one of the components. It's really cool actually. It also explained how lab dosimeters won't work properly in case of a fallout (they have something similar to saturation, i've done this in a lab at university, the result is that after a certain value the dosimeter shows a much less value than it should. So you might think it's safe, but you would actually be irradiated to death.
 
It looks pretty good. It does need some converting, i'm not sure those airducts are blast resistant. The large unused area could be an underground greenhouse.

I wonder, how much does heavy water cost? One could make a house or a bunker or shelter with a double wall, with heavy water filling the space between the walls...
 
Since the nearest choice to nuke is 20km away and its the 14 most dangerous place to live according to the amount of nukes aimed at it.(Halifax, Canada). So I'd crack up the generator, fill everything with water, and we got 5 or 6 18 L jugs in the basement anyways, and continue to move all important items into the basement. Should be safe from radiation with 6 feet of firewood lining the walls of the basement.

And from there I would just hope the fires wouldn't reach me.
 
In my case it wouldn't matter much. I got diabetes and need to take medicine everytime I eat something (even if I don't I need to take a small dose to keep me going), so I'd have to scavange every apothecary for it. Plus, it has to be kept in low temperature to keep it working and I figure it'd be hard to find a working fridge in a shithole far enough to be safe from radiation. Furthermore, these medicine will run out eventually and I doubt anyone will produce it if all hell break loose. Of course I could be lucky and live for couple of months or even years, but I'm fucked in a situation like that anyway.

But who know, maybe I'd find some huge warehouse full of insulin and woulnd't breake my syringies.
 
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