Do you think based on where you live you would survive a nuclear war?

Question

Do you think based on where you live you would survive a nuclear war?

Answer 1

Probably not.

Pacifist Warmonger - the US has speed of light interceptors, wow, which comic book did you get that one out of?

Answer 2

50% likely I live in a semi-rural location in Northern Ireland but I also have the know-how for building an adequate shelter and have protective equipment and a good stock of food and survival gear as well as a wealth of combat experience in both urban and rural fighting

Answer 3

Nope, the royal Engineers are based a mile away.

Answer 4

I grew up living in a triangle formed by a nuclear sub base (SSBN), a carrier homeport shipyard, a torpedo production facility, and (more distantly) a naval munitions storage facility (where nukes were kept).  In those days, I KNEW I wouldn't survive the opening slavo of a nuclear war.  Today, I'm a long way from any realy targets, and so probably would survive the first wave.  However, the question is...how long would anyone survive in the event of a nuclear war?  A year, I think I could.  Five years?  Maybe, maybe not.

Answer 5

Er, no. Where's my nearest nuclear bunker?  

Answer 6

the only people who will servive a nuclear war are the b@stards who started it. and i suppose rightly so! because its the complacency of the people that gives!!! those nutters the freedom to do as they please......thats why democracy is such a crock of sh*t!!.....if  the people were realy! in control there would be! no wars.

Answer 7

NO

Answer 8

nope

Answer 9

Possibly the first blast, but never climate change that would occur.

Answer 10

I am certain I would be able to survive the initial blast.  In fact, my area would probably keep power and water.  However, since I live about 40 miles away from a city that has 1 Army Post, 4 Air Force Bases, 1 Marine Corps Camp and a host of other high value military targets, I would imagine that the radiation and subsequent fall-out would have serious health effects.  

I may survive for several weeks, but I imagine that the loss of transportation infrastructure would eventually result in serious food and supply shortages and that I would eventually faulter.

Answer 11

Atlanta is a couple hours away; with nuclear technology advances being what they are, I'm certain to get fallout when whoever attacked went after a high population area.

But that is assuming, of course, that a nuclear missile actually got through.  No one with a nuclear missile is close enough to actually hit America with one before our interception system took the missile down.

Nuclear ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles; or their foreign equivalents) can only travel at 18,000 miles per hour.  Sounds fast, but our intercepting missiles can travel at nearly 186,000 miles per second (not per hour, per second--at just under the speed of light).  Pretty much any nuclear missile launched from anywhere would be intercepted before it hit America, and probably even before it armed itself.

The major reason America would have to worry if Iran got a missile is not that they would attack us, but that they would attack Israel.  Israel is too close for their interceptor missiles to stop the attack.

And if enough of them get through, they will throw dust into the air and cut off the sun's light and warmth from getting to the Earth.  It almost certainly would seriously deplete the world's food supply for a large area; and it may even be big enough to knock Earth's atmosphere so far off course that all humans die.

We don't have what it takes to destroy the planet itself, nor even all life on Earth.  It will live on somewhere, most likely at the bottom of the ocean where they have no sun anyway.  But we do have what it takes to destroy all human life and most (if not all) life on land and in the upper levels of the ocean.

Add-on:

I didn't say speed of light, I said just under the speed of light.  The light barrier has not yet been broken.

And the multiple warheads scenario is irrelevant.  Those missiles will be taken out before they can actually arm.  If they arm beforehand, they may be taken out over the country that launched them and spread radiation over the country trying to attack us.

So they cannot arm right away.  Our interceptor missile either takes it out before they arm, in which case they are just rocks hurtling at us; or they arm too early and are more likely to take out the launching country and not us.

Answer 12

No chance stay in a city centre

Answer 13

No, I am near to many MOD buildings and also a naval base. I wouldn't want to survive it anyway. Radiation poisoning is a horrible way to die. At least a nuclear explosion would be quick.  

Answer 14

If I lived in the ******* australian outback I wouldnt survive a nuclear war

Answer 15

no, and even if i did survive i would die from cancer and my children would be born with two heads and three legs.... this is not a life

Answer 16

I'd like to think so, it's the @rsehole of nowhere.

Answer 17

nope, I live in San Diego, CA

Miramar Marine Air Base;

North Island Naval Station;

M.C.R.D.;

and

the Camp Pendleton Marine Base right up the freeway.

Answer 18

i live in ireland and as a neutral country dont see y we wold be attacked but being next to the uk is always a cause for concern with necular fall out etc ..   however nowing us irish we would probably asked to be nuked for fear of bein left out but only after a long drawn out referemdum in which we would be asked to vote on a second time by europe anyway and in the end of it all we will end up blowing ourselfs up by mistake by cutting corners on buying nukes although we could order them to be bought from iraq in which case we will spend years waiting on  delivery and eventually find out that they ran off with the cash and had no bombs  

Answer 19

yes i would survive live deep in country not too many targets where i live

not sure i would want to survive though

Answer 20

i probably have a better chance than most, seeing as i live in hillbilly central. but im pretty panicky, so id freak out and like, run like crazy, which would probably kill me pretty quick. wow, thats a real pleasant thought. :)

Answer 21

No chance - 1 click from Heathrow airport London - at least I would not know a thing.

Answer 22

no idea :D

Answer 23

Luckily I live so close to a key city and military base

I wont even know what hit. It'll be complete and instant evaporation.

To the gentleman below me. One missile can carry multiple nuclear warheads . When an interceptor missile is launched and gets near the incoming nuclear missile it will deploy several nuclear war heads in which it will be impossible for one missile to take out

Answer 24

Ever heard of nuclear fallout? If the blast doesn't get you nuclear fallout will eventually.

Im hoping if it comes give me the big bang anyday.

Answer 25

Nope. Each nuclear bomb would destroy a country. I live in london and if one hit here everyone would die (7m people) and nobody would be able to live here for years after because of the radiation. If all the nuclear bombs went off all over the earth, there would be enough to destroy earth once and then over several more times over. If ww3 began and there was a nuclear war most of america, russia, britain and other european countries wouldnt survive.