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Will we get nuked here in the UK?

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Will the UK be nuked due to the current crises?

According to a senior figure in the Russian military, nuclear war could well be a possibility after Turkey shot down a Russian jet. Turkey is of course in NATO, and so we would likely be in the firing line.

My question is whether you feel this is likely to lead to nuclear war. Being in one of the UK's major urban areas puts me at quite high risk, but it may of course all blow over. What do you all think?

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Starting a nuclear war over one plane is ridiculous , overblown imo.
Reply 2
Correct voting there.

No is the answer.
I hope not, and I highly doubt it. Lol.
I don't know, and nor does anyone answering this
Reply 5
Would be lowkey nice to spice things up a bit tho
Defiantly not. Russians are drunk half the time so they will just end up nuking themselves if there was a nuclear war. But there wouldn't because global powers are too scared to use nuclear weapons. No one would be first to push the buttonbecasue putin knows that he wouldnt be able to deny which seems to be all he is good at
Original post by Bjornhattan
According to a senior figure in the Russian military, nuclear war could well be a possibility after Turkey shot down a Russian jet. Turkey is of course in NATO, and so we would likely be in the firing line.

My question is whether you feel this is likely to lead to nuclear war. Being in one of the UK's major urban areas puts me at quite high risk, but it may of course all blow over. What do you all think?


If there was a nuclear war the repercussions would be worldwide .. sun blocked out damage to crops etc
Nope. Nobody would dare nuke us because we have so many allies and can fight back (Trident).
I honestly wish it happened, just because I feel so **** today and if I happened to get nuked, I would at least feel lucky for 1 second before I died. Bring it on.
Original post by Zuki
Would be lowkey nice to spice things up a bit tho

I was thinking the same thing.. It would make life more exciting. :ninja:
Original post by driftawaay
I honestly wish it happened, just because I feel so **** today and if I happened to get nuked, I would at least feel lucky for 1 second before I died. Bring it on.

This tbh
Reply 11
Original post by Bjornhattan
According to a senior figure in the Russian military, nuclear war could well be a possibility after Turkey shot down a Russian jet. Turkey is of course in NATO, and so we would likely be in the firing line.

My question is whether you feel this is likely to lead to nuclear war. Being in one of the UK's major urban areas puts me at quite high risk, but it may of course all blow over. What do you all think?


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Original post by maximo17000
Defiantly not.


Defiance isn't going to stop a nuke.
Original post by driftawaay
I honestly wish it happened, just because I feel so **** today and if I happened to get nuked, I would at least feel lucky for 1 second before I died. Bring it on.


Lucky? :confused:

and why are you so down?
Oh yeah because the logic goes like this...

Turkey and Russia argue over whether a single plane shot down was or was not passing over Turkish airspace (it did, though Turkey massively overreacted)........Russia nukes Britain.

....does not compute.

And as **** as our military capability is, there's still MAD, if we didn't empty our subs at their cities in retaliation, it's a great opportunity for the USA to have an excuse.
Depends how unstable the belligerent governments are. Britain would certainly cop a packet if it went off. I seriously doubt that war is going to result from this one incident, escalation is always a possibility, but is a Nuclear war a winnable war. The two things we know, Nuclear bombs have been used, and a character like Adolf Hitler would definitely have used them. Unresolved..
Original post by demx9
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It was in the Metro this morning.
Some time ago a crazy dream came to me
I dreamt I was walkin’ into World War Three
I went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kinda words he could say
He said it was a bad dream
I wouldn’t worry ’bout it none, though
They were my own dreams and they’re only in my head

I said, “Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain”
He said, “Nurse, get your pad, this boy’s insane”
He grabbed my arm, I said, “Ouch!”
As I landed on the psychiatric couch
He said, “Tell me about it”

Well, the whole thing started at 3 o’clock fast
It was all over by quarter past
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
Wondering who turned the lights on

Well, I got up and walked around
And up and down the lonesome town
I stood a-wondering which way to go
I lit a cigarette on a parking meter and walked on down the road
It was a normal day

Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
“Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man”
A shotgun fired and away I ran
I don’t blame them too much though, I know I look funny

Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand
I seen a man
I said, “Howdy friend, I guess there’s just us two”
He screamed a bit and away he flew
Thought I was a Communist

Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave
“Let’s go and play Adam and Eve”
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin’
When she said, “Hey man, you crazy or sumpin’
You see what happened last time they started”

Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown
And there was nobody aroun’
I got into the driver’s seat
And I drove down 42nd Street
In my Cadillac. Good car to drive after a war

Well, I remember seein’ some ad
So I turned on my Conelrad
But I didn’t pay my Con Ed bill
So the radio didn’t work so well
Turned on my record player—
It was Rock-a-day Johnny singin’, “Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
Our Love’s A-gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah”

I was feelin’ kinda lonesome and blue
I needed somebody to talk to
So I called up the operator of time
Just to hear a voice of some kind
“When you hear the beep it will be three o’clock”
She said that for over an hour
And I hung up

Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
Sayin’, “Hey I’ve been havin’ the same old dreams
But mine was a little different you see
I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me
I didn’t see you around”

Well, now time passed and now it seems
Everybody’s having them dreams
Everybody sees themselves
Walkin’ around with no one else
Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
I said that
Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/talkin-world-war-iii-blues#ixzz3sY2fT0vo
Hopefully, so the ignorance that you spread gets exterminated.

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